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Pandemic Era Opens Opportunities?
Published on October 10, 2021
Ted Cook, BLA and MED Dual Degree student, School of Planning, Design, and Construction, Michigan State University, shares his experiences. -
A Tribute to Harold W. Lautner, FASLA (1902-1992): MSU Landscape Professor 1946-1970
Published on October 8, 2021
Harold W. Lautner came to Michigan State University (MSU) in 1946, as Charles Parker Halligan was retiring. Mr. Halligan had led the landscape architecture program for around 39 years. -
Building resilience to compound hazard risks
Published on October 8, 2021
Dr. Won Min Sohn, Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, School of Planning, Design, and Construction, Michigan State University, talks about the effects of climate disasters. -
Fatemeh Saeidi-Rizi joins the School of Planning, Design and Construction as an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
Published on October 7, 2021
Dr. Saeidi-Rizi is an expert on landscape and health, environment and cognitive behavior, environmental psychology and green infrastructure. -
Letter from Cheryl Zuellig, LAAAB President
Published on October 6, 2021
Greetings MSU Landscape Architecture Alumni -
Landscape architecture student looks to make a difference through environmental design
Published on September 23, 2021
Undergraduate Anhad Viswanath is inspired by creating outdoor settings that enable people to engage with their natural surroundings. -
SPDC welcomes Harry Shah as new Teaching Specialist in Construction Management
Published on September 21, 2021
CM Alumnus Joins the CM Teaching Staff -
SPDC welcomes Deyanira Nevárez Martínez as Assistant Professor in the Urban & Regional Planning Program
Published on September 21, 2021
New faculty member brings focus on housing, racial equity and Chicano/Latino studies to URP. -
NCI worked with the City of Houghton to become “Charrette Ready”
Published on August 27, 2021
The Charrette Ready Workshop invites residents into the planning stage of the charrette development, engaging members of the community in inclusive charrettes. -
Dr. Linda Nubani receives Chief of Police Award of Excellence from the Lansing Police Department
Published on August 10, 2021
SPDC’s Linda Nubani is recognized for increasing the collaboration between police and community. -
Noah Durst, assistant professor in the Urban and Regional Planning program, receives NSF grant to map informal and alternative housing in the U.S.
Published on July 16, 2021
SPDC faculty proposal “Mapping Informal and Alternative Housing in the United States: A Big Data Approach for Examining Spatial Inequality” was selected to receive a NSF grant of $359,208 -
Interior design senior student capstone showcase in immersive virtual reality platform
Published on July 15, 2021
SPDC’s Linda Nubani designed and hosted the first-ever virtual reality platform for her interior design senior student capstone presentations, a pandemic-inspired innovation that reached an international audience. -
MSU receives funds from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme to conduct eMOTIONAL Cities research
Published on July 14, 2021
SPDC faculty leads effort on a project to improve health and well-being through the design of urban spaces, with a team of four MSU faculty representing the U.S. component of an international consortium -
Jun-Hyun Kim, associate professor and LA program director receives multiple awards
Published on July 8, 2021
Jun-Hyun Kim, associate professor and program director of the LA Program and the MED Program in SPDC was recently awarded three honors from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architects (CELA) -
MSU’s Michigan Water School receives $100K grant from Erb Family Foundation to partner with the National Charrette Institute
Published on June 24, 2021
Water School helps local and state officials and others increase their knowledge about water management and gain access to tools and resources to help impact their local economy.