Dr. Aaron Thompson, Center for Community & Environmental Design Director, received a $20,000 renewal grant from the National Park Service to continue a partnership between the CCED and the NPS River, Trails, and Conservation Assistance program. The CCED uses these funds to create a unique employment opportunity for undergraduate students based at Purdue who provide…Read more about Dr. Aaron Thompson Received Renewal Grant[Read More]
Dr. Bo Zhang, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Oklahoma State University “Big Data with Smart Minds: Gauging the Impacts of Landscape in Information Age” Thursday September 15th, at 3:30pm, HORT 117 or join via Zoom Dr. Bo Zhang, an associate professor of Landscape Architecture at Oklahoma State University, has a keen interest in promoting public space…Read more about HLA Fall Seminar: Bo Zhang[Read More]
Yiwei Huang had guided her previous student, Luyu Zeng, on constructing an interview article with a landscape architecture professor, Brett Milligan, to advocate for more climate resilient design in China. The piece is now published. Brett MILLIGAN, Luyu ZENG, Yiwei HUANG. A Call for Innovative, Multidisciplinary Adaptive Landscape Design in the Age of Climate Change: Interview With Brett…Read more about Yiwei Huang Coauthored Interview Article[Read More]
On Monday, August 22, HLA undergraduate student Clare O’Brien (LA) will take over the Purdue College of Ag’s Instagram Page (@purdue_ag). She will share her daily life throughout the day, including classes, building, study spots, and student organizations. On Friday, August 26, Hari Thirumalai (Agronomy with HORT minor) will take over the College of Ag’s…Read more about LA Undergraduate Student Will Takeover Purdue Ag’s Instagram[Read More]
Dr. Aaron Thompson attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the J Long 2nd Street Memorial Park in Connersville, Indiana on July 26th. The park is currently under construction with a late October timeline for being opened to the public. Purdue landscape architecture students played a critical role in the redevelopment of this park through a Fall…Read more about Aaron Thompson Attended Ground Breaking[Read More]
Assistant Professor Yiwei Huang and two landscape architecture undergraduate students Yahan You and Wanting Zhang will be presenting their landscape performance study of Suining South Riverfront Park in next week Landscape Architecture Foundation’s public webinar. The Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Case Study Investigation (CSI) program supports faculty-student research teams who work with designers to assess and document the…Read more about Yiwei Huang Presenting at Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Public Webinar[Read More]
Dr. Aaron Thompson, Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, and Dr. Zoe Nyssa, Department of Anthropology, are excited to announce the receipt of a new grant entitled “Plan Your Park.” The grant from the Engagement Scholarship Consortium will support an ongoing partnership between the Department of Anthropology, the City of West Lafayette, and the Center…Read more about Aaron Thompson Receives Grant for “Plan Your Park”[Read More]
Dave Barbarash published an invited paper in the Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture and presented at the Digital Landscape Architecture Conference at Harvard, Cambridge, MA. The paper is titled: Automated Recording of Human Movement Using an Artificial Intelligence Identification and Mapping System. The paper includes three undergraduate student co-authors who contributed custom software code, text,…Read more about David Barbarash Published Invited Paper[Read More]
Aaron Thompson coauthored a new paper in the Landscape Journal with Robert Marzec (Purdue – English Department) and Gary Burniske (Purdue – College of Agriculture) titled, “Climate BufferNet: a Gaming Simulation Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change Adaptation with Agricultural Landscape Planning.” Climate BufferNet is an educational, visual simulation designed to engage higher education students…Read more about Aaron Thompson Co-Authored New Paper in Landscape Journal[Read More]
Abigail Fisher (senior, LARC) poster entitled “Picture This: Reimagining Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore’s Front Country” placed second in the College of Agriculture at the Spring Undergraduate Research Conference.