The College of Environment and Design (CED) has a special visitor this year: Fulbright Scholar and professor Dr. Daniela Jelinčić is being hosted for the academic year 2019/2020 by Professor […]
Archive for 2019
Dean Hirt Quoted in New York Times
Dean Sonia Hirt is quoted in this article in The New York Times, dated June 18, 2019.
CED Now Offers Three Double Dawg Dual Degree Programs
The CED now offers three Double Dawg dual degree program tracks. In addition to the BLA + MLA and BLA + MEPD tracks for CED undergraduates, a new AB History […]
CED Welcomes New Lecturer
Dr. Jessica Fernandez has joined the CED faculty as Lecturer of Design Communication and Visual Literacy. Fernandez has a Ph.D. in Planning, Design and the Built Environment from Clemson University […]
Shark Tank 2019
Did they manage to sink or swim? The annual CED Shark Tank Competition, hosted by Donnie Longenecker’s Professional Practice class, follows aspiring entrepreneurs as they present landscape architecture business plans […]
CED to kickoff 50th anniversary celebration on August 22
In the summer of 1969, the University of Georgia founded the School of Environmental Design (later, the College of Environment and Design or CED)—a manifestation of the reformist environmental spirit […]
Lawliss Receives 2019 CEDAA Distinguished Alumni Award
Lucy Lawliss BLA ’79, MLA ’92 has received the 2019 CED Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award. She was presented with the medallion on August 22 during the CED’s 50th Anniversary […]
Bob Hughes and Sarah Ross Named Recipients of 2019 Dean’s Award of Honor
Bob Hughes—landscape architect, planner, and founding principal of HGOR, and Sarah Ross—Executive Director of the UGA Center for Research and Education at Wormsloe, have been named recipients of the College […]
Dean Hirt Quoted in The Atlantic
Dean Sonia Hirt is quoted in the article “Why Are American Homes So Big” in The Atlantic. Click through to read the story.
2019 CED Honors Day
Alumni and Honors Day this year was held on September 6th. Click here to browse a photo album of the event on our facebook page, and here to access the […]
Irina Bokova Former Director-General of UNESCO to lecture Oct. 1
The UGA College of Environment and Design is hosting Irina Bokova, former Director-General of UNESCO for a lecture on “Preserving Global Heritage in Times of War and Conflict” on Tuesday, […]
Whitney Barr, first Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Honor Scholarship recipient
The boat over to Sapelo Island one morning this past summer was a living cross-section of people who live, work, or visit this unique barrier island culture: wealthy white travelers […]
Office Named in Honor of Castro Family
In recognition of the support of CED alumnus Ed Castro (BLA ’88) and family, the College of Environment and Design dean’s office has been named in their honor. “We are […]
Jack Carman, FASLA, to lecture on the design of therapeutic gardens
Jack Carman, FASLA and founder/president of Design for Generations, LLC will lecture at CED on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019 at 4:30 p.m. in JSB 123. The lecture is part of […]
“Landscapes of Care” Exhibit Opening in Circle Gallery
Landscapes of Care Circle Gallery opening reception Thursday, Nov. 7th at 4:30 p.m. As part of our ongoing 50th Anniversary Celebration of the CED, the Circle Gallery exhibit, Snapshots unveils […]
Dean Hirt delivers keynote lecture at international conference at the Metropolitan Research Institute in Budapest
Dean Sonia Hirt delivered one of the keynote lectures in the international congress on “Urban and Housing Systems under Pressure” organized by the Metropolitan Research Institute in Budapest, Hungary. The […]
MHP Student Victoria Vanhuss Chosen for National Leadership Program Scholarship
Victoria Vanhuss, a second year graduate student in the Master of Historic Preservation program, has been named a 2019 ARCUS Leadership Program Fellow—one of 27 learners who will receive fully […]
Associate Professor Amitabh Verma Featured in Focus on Faculty
Associate Professor Amitabh Verma is profiled in this week’s Focus on Faculty from the UGA news service! Follow this link to read the story.
MEPD Student Samantha Trust Wins Top GISday at UGA Map Award
MEPD student Samantha Trust has been awarded first place in the Graduate Division map contest held during this year’s GISday@UGA events. GISday is an international celebration of geographic information systems […]
MHP Student Elizabeth Jones Works to Preserve Local Cemetery
The efforts of Master of Historic Preservation student Elizabeth Jones to preserve an abandoned and nearly forgotten African American cemetery are featured in the Fall-Winter 2019 issue of Walton Living […]
Associate Professor Cari Goetcheus Speaks on Digital Cultural Heritage at Tongji University
Associate Professor Cari Goetcheus, Historic Preservation program, spoke on “Data Capture Technologies for Cultural Landscape Documentation and Visualization” as an invited guest speaker at the Digital Cultural Heritage FUTURE VISIONS […]
“Zoned in the USA” Named to List of Top Urban Planning Books of the Decade
Dean Sonia Hirt’s book titled “Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation” was designated as one of the Top 14 books in urban planning of […]
MHP Student Rose Mayo Awarded Graduate Research Grant
MHP Student Rose Mayo was awarded a Willson Center for the Humanities & Arts Graduate Research Grant during the Fall 2019 semester. This grant supports her research trips to Monticello […]
Professor Brian Orland Delivers Keynote Speech at Geodesign South America
Professor Brian Orland was recently in Brazil as a keynote speaker at Geodesign South America at the Centro de Ciências Humanas e da Educação, GeoLab – Laboratório de Geoprocessamento, Universidade […]
CE+D Team Wins GA-ASLA Honor Award for Work in Atlanta’s Historic Fourth Ward
A design team from the College of Environment and Design recently took home an honor award for research at this year’s awards ceremony of the Georgia Chapter, American Society of […]
“Three Decades of Post-Socialist Transition”
Sonia Hirt, dean of the UGA College of Environment and Design, will be a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Cities and Change in May 2019 in Darmstadt, Germany. […]
Dean Sonia Hirt to give lecture at Drexel University in Philadelphia on single family housing in America
Dean Sonia Hirt will give the keynote lecture at the culminating event of Drexel University’s “Power, Pleasure, and Space: Planning the 21st Century” lecture series. The series is sponsored by […]
Brian Orland Manages Global Geodesign Collaboration
Brian Orland, UGA’s Rado Family Foundation/UGAF Professor of Geodesign in the College of Environment and Design (CED), is coordinating an initiative comprised of over 90 institutions worldwide designed to share […]
Braden Meadows to attend Georgia lawmakers breakfast and meeting at the state capitol
BLA student Braden Meadows will be joining UGA President Jere Morehead and 24 other UGA Student Government Association (SGA) representatives at the Georgia State capitol on February 12th. In this […]
Alfie Vick promoted to full professor
Congratulations to Alfie Vick, who has just been promoted to full professor at the University of Georgia! Vick is the Georgia Power Professor in Environmental Ethics and is a licensed […]
Lynn Abdouni, CED PhD candidate, to attend Lebanon Dissertation Institute
Lynn Abdouni, CED’s first PhD candidate to successfully pass her qualifying exams (January 2019) has just received a grant to attend the Summer Dissertation Institute in Beirut, Lebanon this summer. […]
Ready Set Draw! Professor Verma’s freshman odyssey class featured in Georgia Magazine
Professor Amitabh Verma has taught a freshman odyssey course on sketching campus architecture for the last several years. Recently he created an online learning series based on the course, as […]
Restoring the Future: A Lecture by Keith Bowers, FASLA
Humans are altering the planet’s ecosystems in ways and in magnitude unthinkable even a few short decades ago. Climate change, habitat fragmentation, and invasive species are rapidly changing species composition […]
Nominate Your CED Hero
Who are some of the most influential people who helped shape the College of Environment and Design? Was there a faculty member who motivated you to pursue your dreams? A […]
James Reap to receive top US/ICOMOS award
College of Environment and Design Professor James Reap has been awarded the Ann Webster Smith Award for extraordinary and sustained achievement in support of conserving the world’s cultural heritage by […]
The City of Richmond Hill unveils UGA student’s designs for potential new mixed-use center
The City of Richmond Hill, Ga. and the Richmond Hill Downtown Development Authority have partnered with students from the University of Georgia’s College of Environment and Design (CED) to create […]
Eric Groft of Oehme, van Sweden to lecture Jan. 16th
Groft, who has over 30 years of experience in innovative landscape design, will lecture on the work of James van Sweden and Wolfgang Oehme, who revolutionized landscape architecture in America […]
Dean Sonia Hirt lectures at Tongji University, China
Dean Sonia Hirt, Hughes Professor in Landscape Architecture and Planning at the College of Environment and Design recently traveled to China to lecture at the College of Architecture and Planning […]
CE+D to be Recognized at the Georgia State Capitol on April 2nd
The College of Environment and Design is being recognized by the Georgia State Legislature at the State Capitol on Tuesday, April 2nd at 11 a.m. in appreciation of our history, […]
Ashley Steffens elected president of Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
Congratulations to Ashley Steffens who was recently elected President and Chair of the Standing Committee for Strategic Planning of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) at their recent […]
Dean Sonia Hirt Quoted in Article in The New York Times
Dean Sonia Hirt is quoted in this article in The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/upshot/trump-america-full-or-emptying.html
CE+D Hosts over 400 for LAbash 2019
College of Environment and Design students hosted this year’s LAbash in early April, rolling out the Athens hospitality and creative life-forces for over 400 visitors. Led by an executive team […]
CE+D Recognized at Georgia State Capitol
The College of Environment and Design was recognized by the Georgia State Legislature at the State Capitol on Tuesday, April 2nd in appreciation of its long history, contributions to the […]
Ashley Steffens Included in New Book on Graphics
Associate Professor Ashley Steffens is part of a line-up of practitioners and educators contributing a chapter in Nadia Amoroso’s new book, Representing Landscapes, Analogue just published by Routledge. The chapter […]
ASLA Georgia Chapter Student Awards 2019 Announced
Congratulations to our 2019 ASLA (Georgia Chapter) student award winners! This year’s Honor Awards went to Ben Gladstone, Anna McAlister and Alyssa Shrewsbury, BLA students, and Mary Mathis and Jacqueline […]
Lawrie Jordan Addresses CED 2019 Convocation
Lawrie Jordan, director of imagery and remote sensing at ESRI in Redlands, Ca., was the speaker at the UGA College of Environment and Design convocation ceremony held today in the […]
Karlie Roper wins 50th Anniversary Logo design competition
Congratulations to BLA student Karlie Roper who provided the winning concept for the CED’s 50th Anniversary logo! Karlie is a first year BLA who, clearly, has a design career ahead […]
BLA Students Braden Meadows and Clint Granros participate in 2019 CURO Symposium
As the only representatives from CED in a field of over 600 UGA student researchers, BLA students Braden Meadows and Clint Granros participated in the 2019 Center for Undergraduate Research […]
