| Congratulations
to Brenda Ross for her 25 years of service to Penn State. Much
of that time has been in the Landscape Architecture Department.
For the second
year Jessie Hunting is an honoree in the Udall Scholarship competition,
recognizing his commitments to the environment and to community-based
governance. A major factor in this recognition has been his continuing
leadership among citizen groups in impoverished neighborhoods in
Harrisburg, a movement that continues to grow. He, with Maia Zampini,
(Milton S.Berg Scholarship winner), is leading two other Penn State
students, Cori Thatcher and Dan Reynolds, Chris Stahr from Shippensburg
Univeristy and Anjana Sharma from Columbia on a variety of these
community empowerment projects.
Emily (Volgstadt) Riley was our commencement marshal and capped
her time here by winning a Phi Beta Kappa award for her honor’s
thesis—one of just two winners on campus.
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Graduate student
Jitesh Mallik won both an Institute for Arts and Humanities Graduate
Student Residency for this summer and a Pohland Scholarship for
his thesis proposal.
A Hamer Center-based team including Kelleann Foster, Tim Johnson
and Michael Rios from the Landscape Architecture Department and
Scott Wing from the Architecture Department, won a Special Recognition
Award for Innovative
Planning
from the
PA-DE Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for
their interactive CD-ROM project called “PennSCAPEs”.
Tim and Kelleann also won a Merit Award for Innovative Communication
from the PA-DE Chapter of ASLA for “The Land Use Management
Program," a project their consulting practice, the VIC group,
undertook with the organization 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania. |
