The Purdue University Office of Experiential Education selects Aaron Thompson as a 2022-23 Experiential Education Champion based on his passion, experience, and impact in creating service-learning opportunities for students. Experiential education is a “planned pedagogy centering on an authentic experience to strengthen students’ knowledge, skills, and abilities, paired with student reflection.” Aaron Thompson, who serves[Read More…]
On March 4, Sarah Leaskey (BSLA, 2007) of Olin in Philadelphia, PA, was on campus to receive the 2022 Distinguished Agriculture Alumni Award. Some of her works includes the University of California’s Memorial Stadium in Berkley, California as well as redesign for Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. She also spoke with our LA students about[Read More…]
Assistant Professor Yiwei Huang, and a Purdue civil engineer graduate student Zhixin Li explored the potential of integrating social media data to the future of park management back in summer 2021. And now their first pilot study for the city of Chicago is published: Huang, Y., Li, Z., & Huang, Y. (2022). User Perception of Public[Read More…]
After a lot plan changes and alternations, the LA Career Fair still successfully took place February 4 in our HORT building. We greatly appreciate the firms who took heroic measure to arrive West Lafayette to meet with our students. And we also want to thank those firms who could not be here due to weather[Read More…]
Aaron Thompson’s LA students from Fall 2019 will see their class project design come to life this fall. With the help of Purdue Extension and community groups who fundraised with private donations, the citizens of Connersville, Indiana will be able to enjoy the J Long Memorial Second Street Park. This park will be the first[Read More…]
Assistant Professor Yiwei Huang (as a PI) has received a $74,861 seed grant from The Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC), with a proposal titled “Downscaling and visualizing climate change scenarios to advance environmental justice and promote local action”. She will be working with Co-PI Dr. Tian Guo (from ABE), Co-PI Dr. Keith A. Cherkauer (from[Read More…]
By Tanya G. Brown Nathan Vanderman (A’09) was part of the TBG team that designed this play for a tunnel top park in Fort Lauderdale that would unite the restaurant and financial districts while vastly improving an urban eyesore. As a landscape architect in South Florida, Nathan Vandeman (A’09) uses his creativity and analytical focus[Read More…]