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Message from our Chair, Dr. Laura Lawson

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Landscape Architecture Curriculum Reform Approved by SEBS Academic Forum

On April 3, 2013, the SEBS Academic Forum approved the curriculum reform for the Landscape Architecture Option of our Major Environmental Planning and Design. This reform is taking place in preparation for the proposed name change of the BS Environmental Planning and Design Option Landscape Architecture into a BS Landscape Architecture. That name change will most likely occur in January 2014.

The information about the degree requirements and the patterns for Fall 2013 have been updated according to the reformed curriculum.

At this point, the name change does not have an impact on the three remaining options of the continued BS Environmental Planning and Design: Landscape Industry, Environmental Planning, and Environmental Geomatics.

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Rutgers LA at the CELA Conference

The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture just completed its annual meeting in Austin, TX. We are proud to say that 5 of our faculty presented papers at this year's meeting:

• "Solar Park on a Landfill - Integrating Service Learning and Community Impact in the Design Process" by Wolfram Hoefer
• "Programming the Middle Landscape: Cherry Grove Farm Case Study" by Holly Grace Nelson
• "Designing and Preserving Change: An Examination of the Home of Landscape Architect James Rose" by Dean Cardasis
• "Resourcefulness and Community Design: African American Yards in Baton Rouge, Louisiana" by Richard Alomar
• "Toward a New Landscape: The Evolution of Modular Form in Ian McHarg�s Theory of Design" by Kathleen John-Alder

A great showing by Rutgers!

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It�s Scholarship Season!

This is a great time of year for our students because there are so many different opportunities for scholarship and other awards. Our scholarship committee has compiled a list of scholarship opportunities that Rutgers� students should be looking closer at. The deadline for SEBS scholarship applications is NO LATER THAN APRIL 12, 2013.

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Outstanding Alumni Award 2012 and 2013

Our department's Outstanding Alumni Award celebrates the life work and contributions of alumni from the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers.� We are pleased to announce David Reed, principal of the San Diego based firm David Reed Landscape Architects, as our 2012 Outstanding Alumnus. �We are also pleased to announce Ilonka Angalet, Principal Landscape Architect in the Engineering and Architectural Division of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, as our 2013 Outstanding Alumna.� (Read full story)

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Landscape Architecture receives $50,000 from NJASLA

The New Jersey Chapter of the ASLA is an essential supporter of our programs and students.  At this year�s annual meeting, the NJASLA executive committee presented the Department of Landscape Architecture with a $50,000 check to establish an endowment to assist in paying for professional development experiences for undergraduate and graduate students.

Members were encouraged to donate to this fund so that we can expand opportunities such as student participation in the NJASLA annual meeting, class field trips, internships, and other professional experienced opportunities.

Thank you, NJASLA!

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LA Dept. 2013 Spring Common Lectures

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All common lectures are in Rm. 110 Cook Douglass Lecture Hall @ 4 PM unless noted. Alampi Lecture Room is in IMCS, Cook Campus. Trayes Hall is in Douglass Student Center.

01.23.13
Semester Introduction
01.30.13
WXY Architects
The Social Life of Structures
02.6.13
Julie Langsam
Classicism, Romanticism & Modernity: A Painter�s Perspective
02.13.13
Michael Manfredi
Inhabiting Topography Alampi Hall 6:30
02.20.13
**DATE MOVED TO 05.1.13
Susannah Drake
Resilient Urban Environments
02.27.13
Steward Pickett
From the Sanitary to the Sustainable City
Cosponsored with DEENR
03.06.13
David Tulloch
Community Mapping: Spatial Thinking & Geospatial Innovation
03.13.13
Alistair McIntosh
Observation & Landscape Architecture
04.03.13
Martin Cox
Multiplicity
04.10.13
Thaisa Way
Post Industrial Landscapes: Richard Haag & Gas Works Park
04.11.13
Kate Orff
Scape
Cekada Memorial Lecture Trayes Hall 6:30
04.17.13
Janike Kampevold Larsen
Beyond Nation: Challenges for Northern & Arctic Landscapes
04.24.13
Laura Starr
Wild for the City: Creating & Sustaining Urban Nature
* Sponsored by Pamela Holzapfel and Levien & Company, Inc.
05.1.13
Susannah Drake
Resilient Urban Environments

(Click here to see previous seminars in the dept.)

Dept. Events National ASLA meeting Sept. 27-30. See you there.

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