Four landscape architecture projects received awards at the 2016 Central States ASLA meeting in Little Rock, AR on April 15:

Excellence Award for the Parcels and Peppers plan for the City of St. Louis prepared by students in the summer studio and seminar with Associate Professors Blake Belanger and Howard Hahn.

Excellence Award for the Wichita Pop Up Park designed and constructed by MLA students  Danielle DeOrsey, Rachel Fox, Abby Glastetter, Steven Holt, Nicholas Mercado,  Jonathan Knight,  Cody Borwege, Skylar Brown,  Anthony DePriest,  Evan  Lanning, Chandler Nyp, and Mac Wendling in collaboration with the Wichita Downtown Development Corporation. Associate Professor Katie Kingery-Page, Professor Chip Winslow and Richard Thompson led the effort.

Honor Award for the Campus Creek project completed by the Fall 2014 Specialization Studio with Assistant Professor Jessica Canfield and Professor Tim Keane.

Merit Award for the Landscape Architecture and Public Welfare project prepared by students In LAR 442 Spring 2015 with Assistant Professor Alpa Nawre and Associate Professor Blake Belanger. 

Assistant Professors Hyung Jin Kim and Greg Newmark participated in the K-State Early Career Faculty Trip to Washington D.C. April 13-15. 

Assistant Professor Hyung Jin Kim received $1,425 in support from the K-State Open Access Publishing Fund of the Kansas State Libraries to publish his article "Built Environment Factors Influencing Walking to School Behaviors: A Comparison Between a Small   and Large US City" in Frontiers in Public Health.

Assistant Professor Brent Chamberlain will be in residence at the University of Texas as a Big 12 Fellow, April 17-19, to share his work  Using Immersive 3D/4D Geovisualizations to Investigate Human-Environmental Interactions.

Assistant Professor Huston Gibson will contribute to a presentation on high quality online instruction at the Great Plains IDEA annual meeting in Kansas City, April 19. 

Department Head Stephanie Rolley and MS CD Program Director Huston Gibson will participate in the Great Plains IDEA Annual Meeting in Kansas City, April 19 and 20.

Global Food Systems Research Science Communication Workshops for Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Researchers 

( joint effort of Beach Museum of Art, PSI, Office of Vice President for Research, and LARCP. This is a part of Associate Professor Katie Kingery-Page's scholarly activity related to informal learning):

Open to Public 

Global Food Systems Research Science Communication Symposium April 28, 2016. Presentations by graduate  students and post-doctoral research team members begin at 2 pm. Keynote talk by artist and National Geographic photo-essayist Jim Richardson on the Origins of Agriculture begins at 4:30 pm, Beach Museum of Art, UMB auditorium.

The Landscape Architecture Foundation Summit on Landscape Architecture and the Future will take place at the University of Pennsylvania, June 10-11, 2016. The Summit marks 50 years since Ian McHarg and other leading landscape architects composed LAF's seminal Declaration of Concern, which decried the burgeoning environmental crisis and heralded landscape architecture as critical to help solve it. Building on this legacy, this one-time historic gathering will culminate in a redrafting of the original 1966 Declaration of Concern and a landmark publication of the ideas presented. Registration is open now.

In an effort to better understand how and what digital technology is being used and taught in all of the accredited institutions nationwide, the ASLA  Digital Technology PPN  has assembled a survey to poll faculty and students. Click here to participate.