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.
The Center for Innovative Teaching (CFIT) Campus Development Project is an exciting partnership between Barrow Community Foundation, Barrow County schools, ArtsNow, and community leaders to create an innovative arts and science center that includes a playground and destination park in Winder, Georgia. This past summer, College of Environment and Design (CED) seniors in Professor Donnie Longenecker's capstone undergraduate landscape architecture studio (LAND 4900) partnered with the CFIT to develop concepts for playground and park designs.
CCDP began a virtual design charrette this week to envision a brewpub and enhanced river walk for downtown Hawkinsville. Read more: instagram.com/p/CGBjY9WBqOY/
