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Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning
Monday Memo 08.24.15

ANNOUNCEMENTS
THE AUGUST 27 LARCP FACULTY MEETING IS CANCELLED--we were able to cover enough business during our meeting on the 17th! The next meeting will LA Faculty on September 3.

The APDesign Desk Map is available
in the KSOL LARCP Faculty Student Affairs folder.


The APDesign visit from the President and Provost is scheduled for Wednesday, September 30, 2:15 - 3:30 pm. The meeting will take place at APDesign West in Room 116. The schedule for the meeting will be:

1. Dean's highlights of key accomplishments and successes related to the     APDesign 2025 plan - 30 min
2. President's and Provost's presentation - 30 min
3. Open Q&A - 30 min

Minor revisions to the LARCP Communications Flow Chart have been made to include the 4 Winds plasma screens. The revised version is available here and in the August meeting KSOL folder. 

Thomas Woltz has confirmed that he will be the LA Distinguished Lecture. He will present on February 29. 
OUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Assistant Professor Kate Nesse was elected to the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) Council as the representative from the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association. 

Associate Huston Gibson published a  book review for Introduction to Cities: How Place and Space Shape Human Experience (2013) by Xiangming Chen, Anthony M. Orum, and Krista E. Paulsen (authors), West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell (publisher) in the Journal of Urban Affairs, 2015, 37(3), 365-366. 

Associate Professor Katie Kingery-Page is working with Linda Duke (BMA) and Mary Lou Marino (ORSP) as they pilot workshops and coaching in the use of visual thinking strategies geared to the Global Food Systems graduate student researchers. PhD students and post-docs working in the Global Food Systems initiative will use visual thinking strategies to communicate essential concepts of their research to undergrad KSU students participating in select classes in spring 2016.

OF INTEREST
World Planning Schools Congress in 2016 submission deadline is October 5th. For detailed information about the conference and how to submit an abstract visit http://www.wpsc2016.com.br/.

The Creative Placemaking Net at Kansas State University, a group of six landscape architecture students and one faculty member, are interested in the potential of art and design to influence place. As they embark upon yearlong projects they will be updating a blog, found here.
UPCOMING PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEETINGS:
 
Sept 27-30, 2015
Manhattan, KS
Oct 13-15, 2015
Overland Park, KS
PGASLA Annual Meeting
Oct 16, 2015
Kansas City, MO
APA Quad-States Meeting Oct 21-23, 2015
 Kansas City, MO
ACSP Meeting Oct 23-24, 2015 Houston, TX
ASLA Meeting Nov 7-9, 2015 Chicago, IL
Mar 23-26, 2015
abstracts due Sept 4
Salt Lake City and Logan, Utah
July 3-8, 2016
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

EVENTS & DEADLINES
 

AUGUST
 
24 First day of class--all LARCP classes will meet, no computers will be set up

24 APDesign All College Photo: 4:00 pm, APDesign Forum: 4:30 pm, Forum Hall - followed by BBQ

25 LARCP Forum, 10:30 am, Union Big 12

27 LARCP Faculty Meeting CANCELLED

31 Applications for:
Mary K. Jarvis Chair due, information here

SEPTEMBER

3 LA Faculty Meeting, 12:30 - 1:20 pm, Seaton 306

3 Artist Talk: Stan Herd , 5:30 pm, Beach Museum of Art

4 CELA Abstracts due, conference info  here  

4 Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Renovation and Expansion of the Seaton Hall Complex, Information

10 RCP Faculty Meeting, 12:30 - 1:20 pm, Seaton 306

10 Jarvis proposal presentations, 5:30 pm, Table Room at J.P.'s

14-16  Francis D. K. Ching, Drawing Workshop 

15 Chamberlain mid-tenure presentation, 5:30 pm, Seaton 306

16 Informal dinner with LARCP Advisory Council, Rolley-Harms

17-18 LARCP Advisory Council Meeting

17 LARCP Faculty Meeting will be spent with Advisory Council

17 LARCP Advisory Council Event with Graduating Students and Faculty, 6:00 pm, Blue Earth Plaza

21 Gibson promotion and tenure presentation, 5:30 pm Seaton 306

22 Canfield promotion and tenure presentation, 5:30 pm, Seaton 306

23 ACSA papers due

24 LARCP Faculty Meeting, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Seaton 306

25 LARCP Colloquium

30 President and Provost APDesign meeting, 2:15 - 3:30 pm, APDesign West, Room 116

OCTOBER

1-3 Anita H. Lehmann, Drawing Workshop

5 FDA and USRG applications due
25 -28 LAAB Site Visit
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