After the children’s illustrated book on Indiana Native Plants (Monsters Love Native Blooms) was officially included in ASLA’s initiative, “STEM Literacy by Design,” ASLA invited the authors to a national webinar to discuss their reflections and inspirations regarding the journey. They will be featured in the 2nd Meet the Authors: STEM Literacy by Design series,[Read More…]
My name is Emily Slade and I am a community planning intern at USI Consultants. Here I work in the landscape architecture and planning department on projects ranging from complete streets to revitalizing parks. Here I have been learning a lot about the technical and economic aspects of the career, as well as detailing in[Read More…]
Landscape Systems and Design master’s student Mya Hagerty attended the Annual Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) International Conference in Portland, Oregon last week. She presented her in-progress master’s thesis work as a part of the Graduate Student Mentoring Workshop, and was selected as a result of this presentation along with 3 other graduate students (out[Read More…]
ASLA Chapters for Michigan, Illinois, Upstate NY, Ohio, Minnesota, and Indiana and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects are hosting the 2024 Great Lakes Region Climate Action Seminar. This is the third in a series of events that explore landscape architecture’s role in addressing climate impacts in urban and natural systems across the Great Lakes[Read More…]
Assistant Professor Yiwei Huang, two undergraduate landscape Architecture students, Gabby Nivar and Jennifer Kerr, together with Ball State landscape architecture professor Taylor Metz, delivered an ASLA “STEM Literacy by Design” outreach with the children studying in Acton Academy at Fall Creek at Pendleton, Indiana. The goal of national ASLA’s STEM Literacy by Design program is to host a Story Time,[Read More…]
This year, the Purdue Arboretum reached another milestone. In 2019—together with Purdue Grounds Department, Campus Planning, and Architecture and Sustainability Facilities—they proposed that 1869 trees would be planted on campus over a period of 5 years, as part of a Tree Planting Master Plan initiative. This number quickly grew to 3738 trees, which was determined[Read More…]
On May 4, members of Purdue American Society of Landscape Architects (PASLA), led by Rachael Herring, planted annual and perennial flowers and wildflower seeds for Linnwood Elementary School as a service project. A part of a multi-year project with Linnwood, PASLA previously worked on their outdoor learning lab and courtyard space. Photos from this year’s[Read More…]
Rachael Herring, a senior in landscape architecture, received 2nd place in the College of Agriculture for her research poster at the 2024 Undergraduate Research Conference. The poster, titled “Restoring Ecology to a Natural Community Retreat at Dune Harbor Park Status,” features her community engagement research to support her senior Capstone design project in Muskegon, Michigan.[Read More…]