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New Case Study Focuses on Community Gardens

Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle's Urban Community Gardens, focuses on cases of community gardens in Seattle where there has been a strong network of knowledge and resources.

Landscape Architecture Profession Takes Lead

The landscape architecture profession is gaining recognition as a vital player in today's sustainability movement. The weekly magazine, Engineering News Record, has just published a cover story--and editorial--describing how landscape architects are making a difference.

Landscape Architecture is Strong Career Choice

The landscape architecture profession has been identified as a strong career choice for the future by US News and World Report. This is welcome news for current students as well as those considering a career shift toward environmental planning and design.

LAF Board Member Featured in LASN

Joseph Lalli, LAF's Vice President for Development, is featured in an interview in the June issue of Landscape Architect and Specifier News.

White House Garden Nurtures More Than Veggies

The new vegetable garden on the White House grounds is nurturing renewed interest in urban gardens, the focus of LAF's soon-to-be published case study, Greening Cities, Growing Communities.

Women's History Month Profile: Beatrix Jones Farrand

Beatrix Jones Farrand was one of the pioneers of landscape architecture, designing nearly 200 gardens over the course of a 50-year career.

 

LAF is now accepting faculty-recommended nominations from all LAAB accredited universities for the 2010 Olmsted Scholars Program, which identifies, recognizes and supports students with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to developing sustainable landscape solutions to current and critical public issues. The $25,000 award is given to assist a graduate or undergraduate landscape architecture student with their research and financial needs.

LAF is accepting applications for its 2010 Leadership in Landscape Scholarship Program and will offer over $39,000 in awards. LAF scholarships and fellowships reward superior student performance, assist students with unmet financial need and recognize and support original research that is relevant to landscape architecture. Click here to go to our scholarship page.

Congratulations to Richard Heriford, the winner of the Landscape Architecture Foundation's first Sustainable Destination Sweepstakes! Richard is the lucky recipient of an all expense paid, week-long trip for two to EDSA's Crosswaters Ecolodge & Spa in Guangdong Province, China. Upon being notified of being the winner Richard expressed his disbelief, "I didn't expect to win, I was just trying to help LAF's research and scholarship programs.

The Landscape Architecture Foundation's 24th Annual Benefit, Millennium Magic, held September 18th at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion Stage at Millennium Park, was a great success. Contributions from the event exceeded $63,000, providing critical support for LAF programs including the Olmsted Scholars Program, the prestigious national scholarship award which recognizes leadership in sustainable design and planning.
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