The College of Environment and Design hosted the annual Landscape Architecture Short Course February 1st and 2nd at the Classic Center in downtown Athens, Georgia. After a year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was allowed to occur again with health precautions in place. Professor Donnie Longenecker spearheaded the event once again with the help of student assistants Sallie Smith and Kayla Joiner, and Tom Jones as technical support.

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In January of this year, over 70 CED participated in a design charrette sponsored by Ian Firth (Professor Emeritus), Kimley-Horn, Belgard, Forms+Surfaces, and Select Trees.

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Master of Landscape Architecture student Morgane Coleman is leading the way with incorporating virtual reality (VR) technologies into the classroom in the College of Environment and Design.

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"Bee Beautiful," a project created by Genetics and Ecology undergraduate Elizabeth Esser and directed by CED Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Dr. Eric Macdonald, aims to reduce toxic vegetation for migratory birds and increase native habitat and food sources for pollinators.

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Recently, final design plans were revealed by four University of Georgia students who were tasked to reimagine the Bowman Town Park. From community input meetings, surveys and other information-gathering sessions, master's degree candidates Andrew Petersen, Kayla Joiner, Elizabeth Crimmins and Guangzhao (Sophia) Zhang, took what locals asked for and set out to put their landscape-designing knowledge to work for the rural community. Joining the students on the call were Katherine Melcher, their UGA Design Studio professor; Cara Specht, representing the S.C. Forestry Commission and the Tree City USA program; Toby Douthat with Sen.. Lindsay Graham's office and S.C. Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter of District 66.

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Dean Sonia Hirt participates in an expert panel discussion on the intersections between land-use law and housing affordability at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) in Washington, DC.

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The College of Environment and Design (CED) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the level of assistant, associate, or full professor in architectural history, beginning in the 2022 Fall term. The successful candidate will have expertise in the history of the nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. built environment.

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Phillip Jones, a current 2nd-year MUPD student, was selected to participate in the UGA Graduate School Emerging Leaders Program for the Spring of 2022.

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Dean Sonia Hirt has signed a new book contract with Routledge--a highly respected multinational publisher, founded in Great Britain in 1836 by George Routledge. The press focuses on academic books and journals in the humanities, education, law, and the social sciences.

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Volunteers will be removing English Ivy from the Founders Memorial Garden by pulling, cutting and digging it out. Volunteers should come with clothing and shoes to work outdoors on unlevel ground. Volunteers will be bending over and pulling ivy, and then carrying piles of it to a collective area.

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