CED Homecoming Tailgate
Join us for the annual Homecoming Tailgate at the Founders Memorial Garden!
Join us for the annual Homecoming Tailgate at the Founders Memorial Garden!
Join us on Saturday, Sept. 27 for a gameday tailgate sponsored by Belgard at the Founders Memorial Garden! We hope to see you there. Open to CED students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Join us Thursday, Sept. 25 at the Founders Memorial Garden for a Volunteer Day with director & curator Gareth Crosby! We need helping hands for weeding, pruning, and shrub trimming—and the best part? You get to feed your trimmings to visiting goats from Gareth’s farm!
Join us for a spirited student, faculty, and alumni tailgate as we celebrate our community and prepare to cheer on the dawgs! This is the perfect chance to reconnect with old friends, meet new faces, and enjoy food, games, and school pride before kickoff. All are welcome—bring your energy, your friends, and your appetite for fun! Food and drinks will be provided!

Calling Volunteers for Goats in the Garden! 🐐 Join us next week at the Founders Memorial Garden for a Volunteer Day with director & curator Gareth Crosby! We need helping hands for weeding, pruning, and shrub trimming—and the best part? You get to feed your trimmings to visiting goats from Gareth’s farm! Come get your […]

The Environmental Ethics Seminar Series kicks off the spring semester with "Urban Swimming Holes and the Politics of Public Space," a lecture by Hannah Palmer. Urban Swimming Holes and the Politics of Public Space Hannah Palmer, Writer & Artist Tuesday, February 4th - 5:30pm Founders Memorial Garden & House
The College of Environment and Design is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Stephen Ramos, our colleague and dear friend, on Tuesday, Jan. 20. Ramos was an accomplished international scholar of urban planning and design. Ramos joined the CED in 2011, and through his scholarship elevated the urban planning program into the internationally recognized program it is today. A lifelong learner, Ramos’ research […]
The grant will help fund a short-term research residency at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, granting uninterrupted access to the vast collections held at the Getty Library. Congratulations to Environmental Design and Planning PhD candidate Shweta Vardia for receiving a 2026 Getty Library Research Grant. The grant provides funding to support a short-term research residency […]
Third-year Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) students at the University of Georgia’s College of Environment and Design (CED) are redefining coastal protection. In the LAND 4360 Advanced Landscape Ecology course, led by Dr. Qiong Wang, students recently completed an innovative project titled “AI + 3D Printing for Adaptive Infrastructure in Living Shoreline Design.” Coastal areas currently […]
For their final project of the semester, students in associate professor Jose Buitrago’s planting design studio designed new uses for the Sandy Creek Pumping Station, an abandoned water pumping station on the North Oconee River Greenway Trail. Built by Athens civil engineer J.W. Barnett in 1916, the historic station is a relic of Athens’ industrial past. On a cool, golden November […]