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“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 […]
Landscape Architecture
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 […]
Restoring the Arbor Trail
Tucked on the back of the Rutgers University Inn on Cook campus lies a hidden and once forgotten gem: the Arbor Trail. Four years ago, senior environmental planning and design major Elliot Nagele was walking along the inn’s lawn and noticed this hidden Rutgers relic overgrown with weeds, leaves and tree stumps. Intrigued, Nagele, went […]
Reflections of LA Students Attending National Industry Conference and Winning ‘School Spirit’ Award
By Holly Nelson, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Department of Landscape Architecture Fifteen undergraduate Landscape Architecture majors attended the national conference of the American Society of Landscape Architects, which was held in Philadelphia during the fall semester. The conference is typically an eye-opener for students because it exposes them to projects and practitioners from all […]
Byrne Seminar Students Build Schoolyard Teaching Garden for IFNH Nursery School
Twenty Rutgers students from the Byrne Seminar, “Building a Schoolyard Garden,” created the first living laboratory on the George H. Cook campus that is dedicated to the preschoolers in the Culture of Health Academy, a nursery school located on the ground floor of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH). The academy, which […]
ASLA Elevates Kathleen John-Alder to the Council of Fellows
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has elevated Kathleen John-Alder, associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and 30 other members as Fellows for their exceptional contributions to the landscape architecture profession and society at large. Election to the ASLA Council of Fellows is among the highest honors the ASLA bestows on members […]
Landscape Architecture Student Sophia Trinidad (SEBS’19) Participates in Summer 2018 Design/Build Sweden: Creating Home Amidst Displacement
Sophia Trinidad, a senior in the Landscape Architecture program at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences participated in a summer abroad program offered through the University of Washington, Seattle for a design/build project in Sweden. The program was in collaboration with HDK-Steneby, a design and crafts school located in Dals Långed, 170 km […]
