The Dudley Road entrance of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH) on the Rutgers Cook Campus has been a hive of activity this semester as sixteen Byrne Seminar students planted a kitchen herb garden for Chef Ian Keith of Harvest, the healthy eating venue at IFNH. This is part of an on-going process […]
Landscape Architecture
Grad Student Johnny Quispe Selected for “Rising TIDES” Conference Mentoring Program by CERF
Johnny Quispe was among a group of 11 underrepresented (URM) minority students who were selected for a “Rising TIDES” award by the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF). Quispe is a candidate for a Ph.D. in ecology and evolution in the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies. The Rising TIDES “Toward an Inclusive, Diverse, and Enriched […]
TRACING THE PALIMPSEST: Before Livingston Campus was Camp Kilmer
By Samuel Ludescher (SAS’18). Driving along Cedar Lane where it meets Road 1 and the southern border of Rutgers’ Livingston Campus, there is a series of one-story buildings that sit next to the pronounced curve in the road. These buildings currently serve as warehouses and administrative offices for the university. However, their original purpose was […]
Kathleen John-Alder and Team Selected for the 2017 Professional Award of Excellence by the ASLA
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has given their 2017 Professional Award of Excellence in Research to a multi-national team of researchers, including team leaders Kathleen John-Alder, associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and Janike Kampevold Larsen from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial […]
PARK(ing) Day: Bringing ‘Open Space’ to a Parking Spot Near You
On September 15, the Rutgers Landscape Architecture Club hosted its annual PARK(ing) Day event on Seminary Place at Rutgers College Ave Campus. By 7:30am, two parallel parking spaces had been transformed into a green space filled with a mixture of lush, woody and herbaceous plants. Wooden pallets were repurposed into benches and walls were placed […]
What’s in Bloom at the IFNH Meadow?
The meadow at IFNH has burst into color and will continue to change and evolve as spring passes into summer and then into fall. The meadow and border gardens serve as a living classroom for Landscape Architecture students who have designed, planted, maintain and continue to study this beautiful place. Take […]
Landscape Architecture Student, Kimberly Tryba, Part of a Winning Team
Graduate student Kimberly Tryba along with four graduate students from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy recently won the Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Students redesigned an existing public housing development to connect residents with each other and their neighborhood. Their […]
Student-Designed IFNH Garden Will Serve as Eye-Catching Living Lab
By assistant professor Holly Nelson, associate professor Jean Marie Hartman, and assistant research professor Christina Kaunzinger – Department of Landscape Architecture. Twenty-five Landscape Architecture Planting Design students designed a garden that creates a transition between the meadow and the entrance stairway on Dudley Road at the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH). The new […]
A Plaque Marks the Trail: Faculty, Staff and Students Attend Arbor Trail Dedication
One student’s vision of renovating a section of a historic property to evolve into an outdoor classroom and public space with student and faculty stewardship, has come to fruition. Eliot Nagele (SEBS 2015) undertook an independent study and completed a G. H. Cook Honors thesis on the restoration and prolonged maintenance of the Arbor Trail, […]
Water Resources Program Wins Three Awards at the New Jersey ASLA 2017 Conference
The Rutgers Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program was honored with three Merit Awards from the New Jersey American Society of Landscape Architects this spring. Award-winning projects included the Green Infrastructure Guidance Manual for New Jersey, the Woodbridge Township Floodplain Restoration Plan, and the McKeown Elementary School Rain Garden Partnership Project. The Green Infrastructure Guidance Manual for […]











