Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning

Monday Memo 03.02.15

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Four RCP faculty candidates will interview on campus Tuesday, March 3 - Friday, March 6. All LARCP faculty should attend the candidate presentations,11:05 am -12:00 pm, and the candidate discussions with LARCP faculty, 1:30-2:15 pm each day. Both events will take place in 106c. Please encourage all students to attend. Candidate materials and itineraries are available in the LARCP Faculty>Faculty Affairs>RCP Faculty Search 2015 folder on KSOL.

The KS APA Symposium will be held in Manhattan on March 6. The symposium is open to the public and deadline to register for the symposium is March 2. For questions or information on how to register call Erin Ollig at (913) 961-1952 or email at erin@shockeyconsulting.com.

Interdisciplinary STEM-related presentations from K-State artists and scientists to be held in Willard Hall 114, March 5, 6-9pm. For more information, see the flyer here.

OUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Glen Jarrett, MLA 5th year, and Aaron Bisch, IAPD student, have been awarded $1,000 from the new Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Small Grant Program.

Assistant Professor Katie Kingery-Page and Department Head Stephanie Rolley assisted with facilitation of a visioning session for the K-State Prairie Studies Initiative on February 24.

OF INTEREST

ACSP 55th Annual Conference Call for Papers, Justice and the City: (Re)Examining the Past to Create the Future, closes on March 6, 3:00 amEST, information is available here.

Read the latest blog post on the Meadow featuring photos and questions that were gathered during the 50th anniversary here.

The Call for Abstracts for the Society for Ecological Restoration's 6th World Conference has been extended until Feb 28, 2015. You may submit abstracts here. The conference theme is Resilient Ecosystems: Restoring the Urban, the Rural, and the Wild. The conference will take place August 23-27 in Manchester UK.

Dr. Jeff Rosen, from the Higher Learning Commission, will be speaking in the Hemisphere Room on March 5 at 2:30 pm. His topic will be "National Trends in Higher Education Accreditation" - including topics such as credit for prior learning, portfolios, international baccalaureate, AP credit, concurrent enrollment and others.

UPCOMING PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEETINGS:

KS APA Symposium Mar 6, 2015 Manhattan, KS
CELA Mar 24-28, 2015 Manhattan, KS
GP IDEA Conference Mar 30-31, 2015 Omaha, NE
CECD Symposium Apr 7, 2015 Manhattan, KS
APA Apr 18-22, 2015 Seattle, WA
ASLA Central States Apr 22-24, 2015 Oklahoma City, OK
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