08-26-13
Design Days 'I Wish Manhattan' event will take place Aug. 27-28. Logo co-designed by the 2013 Design Days Team.
Landscape Architecture | Regional and Community Planning
MONDAY MEMO 08.26.13
ANNOUNCEMENTS
If you are providing the opportunity for students to earn extra credit/class credit for attending the Design Days exhibit on Wednesday, Aug. 28, or Thursday, Aug. 29 from 5-9 p.m., please notify Courtney Boman and communicate with your students. Click here for the complete Design Days schedule.
Note--Our RCP Distinguished Lecturer's name is spelled Chuck Marohn. If you've used information from previous messages in preparing your syllabi, you may have the incorrect spelling.
OUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Department Head Stephanie Rolley and Assistant Professor Huston Gibson, along with RCP students Kathryn Rush and James Wood will participate in a Land Transportation Workshop, hosted by President Schulz and the Knowledge Based Economic Development team, Thursday, Aug. 29.
Assistant Professor Huston Gibson co-wrote two research articles published over the summer in peer-reviewed journals:
Smart Growth and the Challenge of NIMBY: Multifamily Dwellings and Their Association with Single-Family House Selling Prices in Tallahassee, Florida
Opportunities for the United States condominium foreclosure market to provide amenable affordable housing options: The case of Tampa/Hillsborough, Florida
Dr. Tim Keane will present a workshop, "Research in Political Fragmentation and Water Resource Management", from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, in the K-State Student Union's Little Theatre. The workshop will feature a round-table discussion on the political fragmentation of urban watersheds and its effects on water resource management. Tim will be joined by Dr. Phil Barnes, KSU associate professor of biological and agricultural engineering and Dr. Jae Hong Kim, the University of California, Irvine.
OF INTEREST
CELA 2014 abstracts are due on September 13. The theme is Layers: Landscape, City and Community.
The Garden and Landscape Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks 2012-2013 review.
DEADLINES AND EVENTS
MEETINGS AND DEADLINES
Mon Aug 26, LARCP Forum, Union Little Theater, 1:30 pm
Mon Aug 26, APDesign Forum, 3:30 pm
Thurs Sept 5, LA Faculty Meeting, Seaton 106c, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Tues Sept 10, Promotion and Tenure Presentation, Hunt, Seaton 106c, 5:30 pm
Thurs Sept 12, RCP Faculty Meeting, Seaton 106c, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Thurs Sept 12, Promotion and Tenure Presentation, Kingery-Page, Seaton 106c, 5:30 pm
Fri Sept 13, CELA abstracts due
Thurs Sept 19, LARCP Faculty Meeting, Seaton 106c, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Thurs Sept 19, Promotion and Tenure Presentation, Hahn, Seaton 106c, 5:30 pm
Mon Sept 23, Promotion and Tenure Presentation, Brody, Seaton 106c, 5:30 pm
Tues Sept 24, Mid-Tenure Presentation, Beamish, Seaton 106c, 5:30 pm
Wed Sept 25, Mid-Tenure Presentation, Nawre, Seaton 106c, 5:30 pm
Thurs Sept 26, LARCP Faculty Meeting with Advisory Council, Seaton 106c, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Thurs Oct 3, LA Faculty Meeting, Seaton 106c, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Tues Oct 8, Tenure Faculty Meeting, Seaton 301, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Thurs Oct 10, RCP Faculty Meeting, Seaton 106c, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Tues Oct 15, Tenured Faculty Meeting, Seaton 301, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Thurs Oct 17, LARCP Faculty Meeting, Seaton 106c, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Thurs Oct 24, LARCP Faculty Meeting, Seaton 106c, 12:30 am - 1:30 pm
Mon Oct 28, May and August Intersession proposals due to Stephanie
EVENTS
Tues-Wed Aug 27-28 Design Days
Fri Sept 13, The Final PGASLA Mark D. Moore Scholarship Tournament, Falcon Lakes Golf Course, 1:00 pm
Thurs Sept 19, How the Brain Learns Symposium, TBA
Thurs - Fri Sept 26 - 27, LARCP Advisory Council
Mon Oct 14, RCP Distinguished Lecture, Chuck Marohn
Wed Nov 6, RCP Ekdahl Lecture, Ken Greenberg
Sat Nov 9, APDesign Research Symposium with Linda Sorrento, Executive Director of the National Academy of Environmental Design
CONNECTIONS
iwishmanhattan.wordpress.com
@wishscientist on twitter
facebook.com/IWishManhattan2025
The Meadow Blog
planpop: the City Planning & POP Culture Blog
http://apdesign.k-state.edu/larcp/
Follow @KSU_LARCP
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