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Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.A.)
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From its inception in 1986, our graduate program has focused on a single mission: offering advanced scholarly inquiry to students who already hold a professional design degree. The two-year graduate curriculum leads to a post-professional Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.A.) degree.
Below you'll find a profile of our graduate students. More bios to be posted soon.
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Brent Biggs
Place he calls home: Lakewood, Colorado
Prior degree(s) and university: Environmental Design, Architecture University of Colorado - Boulder
Most recent firm/agency, title/position, and location: Para Architects LLP; Denver, CO
Research interests: Suburban landscapes
Career goals: Experience a variety of the professon's opportunities...eventually own my own business or teach high school
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Bradley Bond
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Prior degree and university: Bachelors of Landscape Architecture Utah State University
Most recent firm, position: Tony’s Grove, Landscape Architect
Research interests: To successfully combine watershed management practices with human activities in arid regions of regions, to increase water quality and quantity.
Career goals: To work for either an environmental consulting firm or government agency, whoever pays the most.
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Jessica Cook
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Holly Dearborn
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Jeff Fitzpatrick
Place he calls home: Ottawa, Canada
Prior degree and university: BLA University of Guelph
Most recent firm, position:
Douglas Associates Landscape Architects
Research interests: Economic viability of sustainable communities
Career goals: Design and implementation of sustainable communities
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Julie Fleckenstein
Place she calls home: Punxsutawney, PA
Prior degree and university: B.F.A. Fine Art (Drawing concentration),
Teaching certification, K-12
Most recent firm, position: Art teacher, middle school
Research interests: Still undetermined
Career goals: Working with ethics of sustainable design.
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Craig Harvey
Place he calls home: Sunset, Utah (Ogden, Utah area) - Would love to call St. George, Utah home though
Prior degree(s) and university: Associate of Science 1996, Dixie College in St. George, Utah; Bach. of Landscape Architecture 2004, Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
Research interests: PDG, Inc. - Flying J Inc. Corporate HDQ. in Ogden, Utah. I was the primary Landscape Designer for Flying J, developing landscape plans, irrigation plans and site layout designs for new travel plazas located throughout the United States, Canada, and Germany.
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Kenneth A. Hendrickson
Place he calls home: Reynoldsville, PA
Prior degree(s) and university: B.S. Geology, B.S. Environmental Geoscience, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Research interests: Interpretation vs. function in (restoration) landscapes, greenways.
Career goals: To graduate; practice landscape architecture and be successful at it; work with academia
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Joe Kurtz
Place he calls home: Baltimore County, Maryland
Prior degree and university: BA in film, Penn State University, 1987
Most recent firm, position: Key Grip, HBO's "The Wire", Seasons 1-3, Baltimore, MD
Research interests: Regional planning, garden design, plant materials |
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Steve Preston
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Mike Shamalla
Prior degree and university: BS, Recreation Management, Penn State University, 2002
Most recent firm, position: Parks and Recreation Director
Research interests: Public Recreations interaction with ecological preservation and quality of life improvement for both urban and rural communities.
Career goals: To design and build the worlds greatest parks! |
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Brian Squires
Place he calls home: Pittsburgh, PA
Prior degree and university: B.S. Wildlife Management, minor, Biology, University of New Hampshire
Most recent firm, position: Naval flight officer, U.S. Navy, Pensacola, Florida
Research interests: Ecology, watersheds, regional and park planning, sustainable stormwater design
Career goals: Professional landscape architect, focus unknown at this time |
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Nicole Stern
Place she calls home: California
Prior degree and university: BLA, minor in Sustainable Environments - California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly SLO)
Most recent firm, position: Design Focus Landscape Architecture, Saratoga, CA
Research interests: Sustainable/Green Design, Global Environmental Issues, Water Resources, Biofiltration & Constructed Wetlands, Living Machines, Greywater systems, Rainwater Harvesting, Permaculture & Ecovillage Design, Closed Loop/off-grid/on-site resource systems, Ecological Restoration, layering of art, ecology, & social function, urban and international projects.
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Andrew Yetter
Place he calls home: Wilmington, Delaware
Prior degree and university: B.S., Landscape Horticulture, University of Delaware
Most recent firm, position: Styer's Nursery, Landscape Design
Research interests: Environmentally sustainable urban design and its economic viability, brownfield reclamation, multi-use design and development
Career goals: Become an environmentally conscious landscape architect / developer |
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