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NewsSalcedo is the national undergraduate winner of the 2023 Fountain Scholarship, a prestigious award granted by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). She received the award during a ceremony at the CELA Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX.
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NewsLed by Prof. Mary Pat McGuire, the initiative is part of a growing movement to transform underused paved areas, such as empty parking lots, into vibrant, green, community spaces.
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NewsStudents in our undergrad Regional Design Studio partnered with the City of Whiting, IN, and the USDA Forest Service to design plans for foresting vacant lots. So far, two have been planted, with more to come.
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NewsThis living memorial to a much loved student will serve as a living lab in our plant identification and planting design courses.
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NewsThree members of our department community—faculty member Kelley Lemon, current student Ana Valderrama, and alum Sonal Mithal—have been awarded prestigious grants from the Graham Foundation.
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NewsThe Department of Landscape Architecture is pleased to announce the establishment of the Sofia T. Soudavanh Garden on an area of ground adjacent to our building, Temple Buell Hall.
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NewsAdded to our suite of digital tools this week: a pair of 86” 4K interactive touch screen monitors.
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NewsProf. Kelley Lemon and PhD in Landscape Architecture alumnus Dongying Li are two of the twelve faculty Research Fellows selected to study high-performing landscape projects in the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s 2022 Case Study Investigation program.
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NewsLaunched in 2007 and renewed in 2019, the Red Oak Rain Garden is a magical place on our campus—even in middle of winter—to which many members of our Department of Landscape Architecture community have contributed over time—as designers, installers, maintainers, and financial supporters.
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NewsThis evening, Prof. Beronda L. Montgomery delivered the second annual Terry Harkness "Plants in Design" Lecture in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois.
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NewsOn October 29, 2020, Thomas Rainer delivered the inaugural Terry Harkness “Plants in Design” lecture in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois.
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NewsThe Department of Landscape Architecture is pleased to announce that Kelley Lemon will be joining our faculty as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, to begin in August 2021.
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NewsWe are pleased to announce that Prof. David Hays has been appointed the Brenton H. and Jean B. Wadsworth Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture.
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NewsThis year, our 2020 Sasaki Day Awards competition took place entirely online—from submissions and first-round judging to finalist presentations and voting—with participants distributed across the country and beyond.
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NewsCongratulations to our faculty members, instructors, and teaching assistants included on the Fall 2019 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, which was recently posted by the University’s Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning.
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NewsWe are very pleased to announce that Jie Hu—Director and Chief Designer of the Research Center for Landscape Architecture at the Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning and Design Institute (THUPDI) and Vice-President of THUPDI overall—will be joining our faculty beginning this August 2020 to chair our new Master of Sustainable Urban Design program.
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NewsA team of 13 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign students recently won an American Society of Landscape Architects award.
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NewsCongratulations to Prof. Mary Pat McGuire, Jessica M. Henson, and 21 distinguished contributors on the release of Fresh Water: Design Research for Inland Water Territories.
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NewsWe are pleased to announce that Dr. Pollyanna Rhee will be joining our department as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture with a focus on landscape history.
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NewsWe are thrilled to announce that Susan Jacobson is this year’s recipient of the Alumni Medal from the Department of Landscape Architecture!