When the University of Georgia Capital Campaign kicks into full swing this month, some of the content used to promote the campaign can trace its roots to the College of Environment and Design. Seth McWhorter, who graduated from the CED with a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture in 2011, has been helping UGA create graphics to promote its fundraising initiatives. [...]
On October 23rd the American Society of Landscape Architects honored Dean Dan Nadenicek as a Fellow at the annual conference, held this year in New Orleans. This is the organization's highest honor, and reflects a life-time achievement of excellence by the inductees. For more information, please click here.
On Sunday October 23, several MHP students traveled to Milledgeville, GA to tour and volunteer. The event, organized by the Student Preservation Organization, began with a tour of Andalusia, the home of author Flannery O'Connor in the 1930s-1950s. Student Ross Sheppard led the tour and explained the role of Andalusia in Flannery O'Connor's novels. He also spoke about the building itself [...]
Associate Professor Scott Nesbit discusses the work students are doing in his Public History and Technology classes, and the presentation he and teaching assistant/MHP student Audrey Thomas gave to the Athens Historical Society last week, in this article from the Athens Banner-Herald. You can also access the article here. For more about Professor Nesbit's work in the digital humanities, click [...]
This September the University of Georgia's second year MLA class had the opportunity to design a small pocket park on the Atlanta Beltline. This 600 sq. ft. space is located in the Reynoldstown neighborhood on the eastside of Atlanta and contains one of the few patches of relatively mature tree canopy left along the proposed Beltline. We spent the first [...]
The CED welcomes Professor Jin-Wook Kwon as a visiting scholar from Korea for the academic year, 2016-2017. He is here, specifically, to study the evolution of the curriculum of the CED's landscape architecture program and explore the agents of its change since the 1970s. His research will entail reviewing our courses of study, interviewing current and retired faculty, and observing [...]
Once again the College of Environment and Design has been ranked among the top ten schools of landscape architecture in the U.S. by DesignIntelligence Quarterly. The ratings, which were just announced, place the CED BLA program at fifth and the MLA program at ninth in the nation. The ratings are determined by surveys of professionals in the field. Each year [...]
The Student Historic Preservation Organization (SHPO) volunteered on Saturday, September 24th at the Watson Mill Bridge State Park in Comer, GA. Members canoed to pick up trash and washed picnic tables as part of a clean up day sponsored by Friends of Watson Mill Bridge State Park. In addition to volunteering, SHPO members were able to explore many of the park's [...]
Fifth-year University of Georgia College of Environment and Design student Chloe Weigle is a busy person these days. Besides her class work, preparing for graduation in May, and looking for opportunities when she leaves UGA, Weigle has the proud distinction of being the only CED student in history to be a member of the prestigious UGA Arch Society. "I just [...]
On the afternoon of Saturday, Sept. 3, University of Georgia College of Environment and Design graduate student Kiley Aguar noticed something strange on campus. Aguar, along with friend and masters of fine arts student Zachary Harris, were exploring the Lilly Branch watershed for the UGA Watershed competition, one of the four watershed outfall locations on the UGA campus meant [...]