UConn faculty and students were on hand to greet alums at the College Tailgate reception held during the American Society of Landscape Architects Annual Meeting & Expo held in Philadelphia October 19-22, 2018. With over 6,000 participants annually, the ASLA conference is the largest assembly of landscape architecture professionals and students in the world.
With its current emphasis on the interconnected elements of plant, people and environment coupled with community health, sustainability and resilience, the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture (PSLA) is a green and lively place for teaching, research and outreach.
Teaching shines
“The experienced, accomplished teachers are one of our bright spots in the department,” said Department Head and Professor Richard McAvoy. Faculty abilities are evident in the high marks students consistently give them on the Student Evaluation of Teaching forms. PSLA teachers have also won individual college, university, regional and national teaching awards.
The department is excited to have recently recruited two new faculty members in the landscape architecture (LA) program. The newest faculty, Sungmin Lee and Sohyun Park, work on community planning and design projects to promote healthy lifestyles and improve environmental sustainability. In total, the department has 24 tenure-track and non-tenure-track professionals who contribute to its teaching, research or outreach educational missions.
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Tao Wu and Kristin Schwab are mentioned in Landscape Architecture Magazine. Graduate student, Tao Wu is highlighted for her proposal to make a former industrial site in Naples, Italy into a transitional community for incoming refugees.
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Recently ranked as one of the 10 Best Landscape Architecture Programs for 2018, CAHNR’s landscape architecture course also prepares many for successful careers.
Dan Colbeck, who graduated from LA in 2002, was one of those undergraduates with diverse proclivities. He said, “I wanted a career that allowed both my artistic and my technical math sides to come out.” Currently, Colbeck is a principal with a 12-person firm, Pamela Burton & Company in Santa Monica, California. From his ten years of experience with that company, he observes that the combination of art and science is essential in real life commercial, institutional and residential settings.
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Tao Wu and Kristin Schwab received the CELA (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture) Fellows Award of Excellence for the poster research presentation they gave at this past week’s annual meeting at Virginia Tech. The CELA is an organization “comprised of over 120 institutions and individuals who have interest in the preparation of landscape architects for global practice.” Wu and Schwab’s poster were selected out of over 40 other competitors and awarded a $500 prize.
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During the summer of 2017, fourteen students embarked on a trip of a lifetime as part of a course, European Urban Form and Design, with Associate Professor of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture Peter Miniutti, and adjunct instructor Natalie Gray Miniutti.
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Tristan Welch, a senior majoring in landscape architecture in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, is the first recipient of the Kyle C. Slocum Memorial Award. The award grants an internship with the largest integrated design firm in the state, The S/L/A/M Collaborative, located in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
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The challenge to landscape architecture and design students was this: create more beautiful and welcoming entrances to Hartford’s Keney Park. The winners were announced Thursday, April 30, at a ceremony at the Hartford Public Library, where all the entries will be on display at the Hartford History Center until August 15. Mayor Pedro Segarra saluted the winners in his remarks, noting that Keney Park was his favorite of Hartford’s many parks.
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