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The Latest CED News
A Letter from the Dean: A Year in Review
As we reflect on the 2024–2025 academic year, I’m delighted to share that our college continues to build on last year’s momentum with exciting new programs, sustained enrollment growth, and a strengthened faculty dedicated to excellence in teaching, research, and community engagement.
Student Work on Display: A First Look at CED’s Upcoming Critique Week
Join us for CED’s Spring Critique Week! April 30th to May 2nd in the Jackson Street Building.
Ecological Design Meets Infrastructure: A Biodiversity Action Plan for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
What if the world’s busiest airport was also a shining example of ecological harmony? At the College of Environment + Design, our senior landscape architecture studio took on this challenge through developing a Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP), a visionary project reimagining the 4,700-acre grounds of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
BLA Students Go Bananas Designing Foraging Garden For Chimpanzees in North Georgia
Last semester, students in Associate Professor Jose Buitrago’s second-year BLA studio brought their talents to Blue Ridge, GA, where they helped envision a new foraging and education garden for Project Chimps, a sanctuary for retired research chimpanzees.
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