Environment, Design, and Teaching in times of COVID-19: PhD student professional development at CED. Doctoral students at the College of Environment and Design can work on their teaching skills through their assistantships, working as teaching assistants or instructors of record. Such opportunities prepare them for a career in academia and invite them to innovate in the classroom.
Natural Engagement: Where Earth Meets Sky Paintings by Rachel Evans Grant The Circle Gallery at the UGA College of Environment and Design will host an exhibit of paintings by Atlanta artist Rachel Evans Grant titled, Natural Engagement: Where Earth Meets Sky. The exhibit is free and open to the public and will run from Jan. 19th through April 15th, 2021 in the Jackson Street Building. Visitors are asked to wear a mask and keep a six-foot distance. Circle Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
The UGA Alumni Association has unveiled the 2021 Bulldog 100, a list of the 100 fastest-growing businesses owned or operated by UGA alumni in over two dozen industries. This year, three College of Environment and Design alumni have had their businesses recognized for their achievements.
On Wednesday December 2nd, Gareth Doherty, Harvard University Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, will speak on his latest book, Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism. Roberto Burle Marx was a renowned Brazilian landscape architect who gained worldwide recognition for his park and garden designs.
In February 2020, Stephen Ramos was awarded the UGA Provost's Office Study in a Second Discipline Fellowship for the Spring/Fall 2021 semesters for his research project, "Regional Praxis: Howard W. Odum, Planning, and the Southern Imaginary." Ramos received generous support from the UGA Willson Center for Humanities & Arts as he developed the proposal.
An intimate gathering was held last night in Founders Memorial Garden to celebrate the retirements of several CED colleagues. With the early golden hour light of Fall as a backdrop and champagne in hand, we toasted Brian Orland, Brian LaHaie, and Paul MacGregor, who retired earlier this year, as well as Jack Crowley, Melissa Tufts and Donna Gabriel, who are retiring at the end of December.
Associate Professor Katherine Melcher has been asked to serve as Interim Editor of Landscape Journal, the official peer-reviewed publication of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA).
Alexander Burke, a graduate student from Connecticut, plans to build a career somewhere between municipal city planning, land management and design. (Photo by Chad Osburn/UGA)
One of the best ways for students to learn about what their career will be like after college is to talk to professionals in the field. This semester the bachelor's and master's students in the Landscape Architecture program spoke via Zoom with CED alumni in landscape architecture and related careers across the country.
