Left: Associate Professor Lee Skabelund leading a tour of the Lower Green Roof Right: New plaque for the Lower Green Roof Photos taken by Brianna Sprague

Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning

MONDAY MEMO 07.28.14

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Huston Gibson on being named a recipient of the K-State Oz to Oz program. Read more here.

The LARCP Summer 2014 alumni e-newsletter can be viewed here.

Help us prepare for the LA 50th Celebration

by filling in the timeline outside of Courtney's office (303g).

OF INTEREST

If you couldn't make it to the Manhattan community workshops this month, there's still time to weigh in online on the future of Manhattan. Click here to find out more.

The online tool will be open to the public through Wednesday, Aug. 13.

The Planning and Law Division of the American Planning Association has announced that it is accepting application submissions from planning students and law students for its 2014-15 Daniel J. Curtin, Jr. Fellowship. Click here for the application.

The FHMPO is in the process of developing the region's first long-range transportation plan called the Flint Hills Transportation Plan.This multimodal effort will take about 18 months and will heavily rely on public input. There will be two meetings open to the public.

Wed	Sept 24	4:30-7:30 pm	Manhattan City Commission Room
Wed	Sept 24	4:30-7:30 pm	CL Hoover Opera House in Junction City

MANHATTAN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

UPDATE PROJECT MEETING DATES

Thurs	Sept 11	5:30-7 pm,	City Commission Room
Thurs	Nov 20	5:30-7 pm,	City Commission Room
Thurs	Jan 15	5:30-7 pm,	City Commission Room

FUTURE KEY DEPARTMENT DATES

Aug 18	APDesign Faculty Meeting
Aug 18	LARCP Faculty Meeting
Aug 18	APDesign Picnic
Aug 21	Faculty Lunch with Incoming PB Students
Aug 25	Design Days Union Big 12 Room--all faculty and students attend, 8:30 am
Oct 1	LA Distinguished Lecture, Shannon Nichol, Little Theatre
Oct 2-3	Kansas APA in Wichita
Oct 7-9	Xtreme LA with Landscape Forms
Oct 19-22	MRCP Re-Accreditation Visit
Oct 23	RCP Distinguished Lecture, Julie Campoli, Hemisphere Room in Hale Library
Oct 30-Nov 2	ACSP in Philadelphia
Nov 7-8	LA 50th Anniversary Celebration
Nov 13-14	APDesign Research Forum
Nov 21-25	ASLA meeting in Denver