Green Roof images from June 2014 by Lee Skabelund.

Photos of the Upper and Lower Green Roofs from June 2014 by Lee Skabelund.

Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning

MONDAY MEMO 06.30.14

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BOXhattan is taking place Monday, July 21 from 8:15-9:30 am as a part of Grandparents University and needs supplies. If you have extra boxes (shoe box size is preferred), construction paper, glue sticks or any craft supplies, please bring them to Courtney's office (303g).

OUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Professor Emerita Judith Major presented a lecture entitled "Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer: A Conscientiously Scientific Student" at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum in Boston on May 19.

Assistant Professor Brent Chamberlain received a University Small Research Grant for his research project "Developing a Distributable Viewshed Analysis Tool to Promote Improved Landscape Planning." Read more here.

OF INTEREST

There will be a Writing & Designing NSF Proposals Workshop on July 24 from 8:30 am-4:30 pm at the University of Kansas. For more information click here .

The 2014 Dialog on Sustainability conference will be taking place on Saturday, July 19 at K-State. Professors Jason Brody and Huston Gibson will be presenting in breakout sessions. Click here for more information.

MANHATTAN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

UPDATE PROJECT MEETING DATES

Thurs	July 17	5:30-7 pm,	City Commission Room
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

May 27 - Jul 18	Summer Studio
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