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Congratulations to PhD in Landscape Architecture candidate Alexandre Champagne, who successfully defended his dissertation, “Mobilizing Landscape Architecture against Urban Precarity: Framing an Applied-Philosophy Approach through the Works of Henri Maldiney, Paul Ricœur, and Jacques Rancière,” earlier this week. Alexandre’s doctoral committee members include Prof. Elen Deming (Landscape Architecture), Prof. Brenda Farnell (Anthropology), Prof. Jennifer Monson (Dance and Landscape Architecture), and Prof. Deni Ruggeri (Landscape Architecture, Univ. of Maryland), with Prof. David Hays (Landscape Architecture) serving as chair. Last September, Alexandre began a full-time appointment on the faculty of Landscape Architecture at Boston Architectural College.

We are pleased to announce that alum Bruce Dvorak has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Three 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.