Ink sketch of Justin Hall by Site Design 1 student, Evan Lanning (course professors Kingery-Page and Hahn).

Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning

MONDAY MEMO 11.18.14

ANNOUNCEMENTS

If you are using paper TEVALs this semester, please schedule your evaluation time with Jody this week. Note: all faculty members listed on a course must have an individual TEVAL conducted.

The Seaton Hall Program-Budget Justification process is coming to a close. A special LARCP faculty meeting will provide an opportunity for review of the work to date: 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Tuesday, December 2, Seaton 106c. This meeting conflicts unavoidably with some faculty schedules--please let Stephanie know if you would like to schedule another time to review.

LA Alumni Honoree Jason Gregory and RCP Honoree Ben Ehreth will be on campus Thursday and Friday, December 4 and 5. Please contact Courtney to schedule time for them to visit your class or to express your interest in attending dinner on Thursday evening.

The January LARCP Faculty Meetings will take place Wednesday and Thursday, January 14 and 15. All faculty will meet during the day on Wednesday. Specific topic meetings will take place on Thursday and will be scheduled with regard for the ENVD faculty meeting.

The APDesign Holiday Party will be held on Thursday, December 18 at Aggie Central Station from 7-9 pm. Please RSVP by December 15 to Brianna at bsprague@ksu.edu with your name and the names of guests.

OUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

The following professors will be attending the ASLA conference in Denver November 21-24:

- Associate Professor Blake Belanger: Presenting Representing Resilience at the Urban Design PPN Pecha Kucha Series on November 22.

- Associate Professor Howard Hahn

- Professor and Head Stephanie Rolley: Participating in the LAF Board Meeting and ASLA Department Chairs Meeting

- Associate Professor Lee Skabelund: Presenting Productivity and the City: Edible landscape and Evidence-Based design with Calayde Davey, Ph.D. Student and Jeremy Merrill, MLA 09', Ph.D. '13 on November 24.

- Professor Chip Winslow

Professor Tim Keane will be attending the Big 12 Water Workshop held in Lawrence, Kansas on November 17-18.

Assistant Professor Kate Nesse will be presenting Mapping Manhattan: Using maps to reveal secrets in our community as part of the Kansas State Book Network lecture series on November 18 in the K-State Leadership Studies Townhall at 7 pm.

OF INTEREST

Please consider the new undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry Awards and the new undergraduate Travel Awards offered through the Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry (OURCI) for your students. These awards are for spring 2015 and are due November 15.

The Seaton Hall Design team is implementing and managing a MindMixer site specific to our project. Follow this link to set up your account and begin to utilize the site to engage in a process of queries, responses and idea exchange serving to inform the Design Team through the schematic design (ending 1 December) and design development (ending 1 March) phases of the project.

Nominations for the AICP Student Project Awards are due December 11. Click here for more information.

MANHATTAN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

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