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Honors College Faculty Fellows’ Tea to discuss research opportunities with Dr. Freytag
Faculty Fellows’ Tea Friday, April 11, 5:30-7:00pm | HC Fireside Lounge Are you interested in cutting-edge research at Rutgers? You are cordially invited to join us for our inaugural Faculty Fellows’ Tea at the Honors College! Our guests will be Anette Freytag, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, SEBS; Douglass-Honors College Faculty Fellow, and Jose Guillermo Cedeño…
Kathleen John-Alder, RU Landscape Architecture Color Mosaics: A Natural History of the New Jersey Pinelands
Date of lecture: April 9,2025 Abstract Color is one of the main ways objects are described in science and depicted in art. Over time, this has led to the development of references such as Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours, which contains a list of color names, painted color swatches, and examples of animals, plants and minerals displaying those…
Pippa Brashear, SCAPE Studio Framing Resilient Design
Date of lecture: April 2nd,2025 Abstract Pippa Brashear, RLA, is Resilience Principal and Partner at SCAPE. A leading national expert on resilience planning and design for climate adaptation, Pippa works with multi-disciplinary teams to develop landscape strategies and next-century infrastructure that integrate environmental, economic and social benefits. She leads both planning and built work teams within…
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Jim Welsh, MKW Landscape ArchitectsTeam Up: Partnerships for Resilient Design
Date of lecture: February 19, 2025 Abstract MKW + Associates has been designing outdoor spaces for over 60 years. During that time, we have focused a part of our practice on creating spaces for children to learn, play and hopefully evolve into well rounded adults. Our talk will focus on the design processes that we…
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Michel Masozera: Sustaining biological diversity and ecosystem services in the human dominated landscape of Rwanda: Looking forward through the past
Date of lecture: March 26,2025 Abstract Sustaining biological diversity and ecosystem services in the human dominated landscape of Rwanda: Looking forward through the past The plight of Rwanda’s exceptional wildlife and diverse landscapes – from lush volcanic slopes to rolling shrubby savannah to wetlands – has been deeply intertwined with the nation’s socio-economic and political dynamics. Rwanda’s…
Connecting to rio Piedras: Reducing flooding and improving access with nature based solutions.
Sharing local visions and ideas on preserving ecological systems in the rio Piedras in San Juan Puerto Rico, this video is a collaboration between the Landscape Architecture Departments at Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the Polytechnical University of Puerto Rico with with support from the Rutgers Global Environmental Change Grant, Rutgers…
Resilience + Plurality: Climate Adaptation across the East Coast and Caribbean
Landscape architecture undergraduate and graduate students designed resilient climate adaptation solutions for 3 cities in the east coast and Caribbean. The results were innovative options that addressed waterfront design, adaptive strategies for historic sites and nature based socially sensitive solutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8CNeuovumU
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Opening: MLA Final Projects Exhibition 2024
Wednesday, April 24th, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pmRutgers Art Library, Voorhees Hall, 71 Hamilton Street The Exhibition will be running until August 22, 2024. View the topics.
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Wolfram Hoefer: Radio conversation in German about diverse perspectives on landscape.
Doing field research in Hungary, Austria, and Germany, Wolfram Hoefer was invited to the Austrian Public Radio Ö1 Program: “Im Gespräch” (in conversation) with radio host Renata Schmidtkunz. The conversation touches on the relationship between religion and nature. Another aspect of the conversion are the diverse understandings of the term cultural landscape in North America…
Landscape Architecture designated a STEM discipline
Today, the Biden administration announced that landscape architecture has been designated a STEM discipline!Specifically, Landscape Architecture (04.0601) was added to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) STEM-designated degree program list. Along with landscape architecture, seven additional disciplines were added to the list, including: Institutional Research (13.0608); Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering Technology/Technician (15.0407); Composite Materials…
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