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Message from SEBS Interim Executive Dean Laura Lawson: Dear SEBS and NJAES community, It is my privilege to announce that Richard Alomar will serve as Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. Richard Alomar has an undergraduate degree in Agronomy from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez and an MLA from Louisiana State University. […]
Landscape Architecture
Prof. Kathleen John–Alder Discusses Her Book about Famed 20th Century Landscape Architect Ian McHarg
Kathleen John-Alder, associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS), is the author of Ian McHarg and the Search for Ideal Order, which was published in November 2019. A practicing landscape architect with degrees from Oberlin College, Rutgers University and Yale School of Architecture, John-Alder’s scholarly […]
Senior Story: Yat Chan (SEBS ’20), Designing her Way to a Sense of Belonging and Worth
Yat Chan (SEBS ’20), major in Landscape Architecture with a minor in Sustainability and Green Technology, got her start a long way from the southern New Jersey township she calls home. A first-generation college student from an immigrant family, Yat grew up in Hong Kong but moved to South Jersey in 2012 with her family […]
Announcement: Laura Lawson Appointed Interim SEBS Executive Dean & NJAES Executive Director, Effective July 1, 2020
April 2, 2020 Dear Members of the Rutgers–New Brunswick Community, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Laura Lawson as Interim Executive Dean of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) and Interim Executive Director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) effective July 1, 2020. Dr. Lawson is currently a […]
Rutgers CUES Receives 2020 Honor Award
The Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability (CUES) led by Richard Alomar, associate director of the Office of Urban Extension and Engagement and associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and Frank Gallagher, Environmental Planning Program Director and Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Department of Landscape Architecture, received a 2020 Professional Honor Award […]
Growing Peppers—and Resiliency—in Puerto Rico
“Do it yourself.” Whether it’s by choice or necessity, these three words encapsulate a lot about Puerto Rican culture, says Rutgers faculty member and Puerto Rico native Richard Alomar. A deep desire for self-sufficiency comes partly from the island’s agricultural heritage—”a proud history of working their own land,” Alomar says—and largely from a distrust in […]
Undergraduates Explore How Land Meets Sea in Interactive Byrne Seminar
The day that Hurricane Dorian veered away from hitting New Jersey, 11 intrepid freshmen enrolled at Rutgers–New Brunswick topped off their first week of college with a visit to the shore as part of the Byrne Family First-Year Seminar, titled “Landscape/Seascape: An Interdisciplinary Exploration.” Byrne seminars are small, one-credit courses that match first-year students at […]
LA Students Give Rutgers Golf Course Entrance a Makeover
Senior Landscape Architecture students Jessica MacPhee and Katherine Rodriguez, who are participating in a six-week paid internship with the Rutgers Golf Course on Busch Campus, gave the entrance to the course a much-needed facelift this month. As part of the internship, they re-designed the 250-foot long golf course entrance garden, a project that was overseen […]
Provisioning Garden is the Newest Living Laboratory on the Cook Campus
Students returning to the George H. Cook Campus this fall were greeted with a new garden installed at the Cook Office Building (COB) across from the popular Skelly Field on Dudley Road. The Provisioning Garden showcases plants that contribute provisioning services to assist humans and wildlife in some way—as food, fuel, fiber, medicine, and habitat. […]
The Garden Walk: SEBS Student Project wins New Jersey American Society of Landscape Architects Award
By Edwin W. Gano (SEBS’18) and Giovanni A. Caputo (SEBS’20), Department of Landscape Architecture Rutgers Gardens has been an integral and indispensable resource for Rutgers University — especially for the Cook and Douglass campuses who are closely associated with the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Efforts have been made to make the Gardens more […]
