This article by Lawrence Biemiller is in the Chronicle's "Building & Grounds" blog. Many SCUPers are involved in this project with ACUHO-I:

Ideas for the dorm room of the future fill a new book from the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International, which is in the midst of a three-part competition to design a model residence hall for the 21st century.

The book is based on the first stage of the competition, which sought suggestions just for individual dorm rooms. Eight finalists presented their ideas at a conference in Phoenix earlier this year (The Chronicle, February 23), and their submissions are fully described in the new volume — including that of Jonathan Levi Architects, of Boston, which a jury chose as winner of the competition’s first stage.