Utah State University Provost Laurens H. Smith has announced that David Anderson has been named associate vice provost for Community Engagement. In this assignment, Anderson will serve as the lead writer
Utah's population growth has made it imperative to address the consequences of drought and the detrimental effects it brings to the Great Salt Lake. Mary Claire Jennings is passionate about water conservation and points out that “grass lawns are especiall...
David Anderson is a former Research Landscapes presenter and an LAEP program faculty member at Utah State. For this event, Dave focused on the charrette process and how it works to equip local authorities and community leaders with the tools to envision s...
Utah State Aggies swept a Salt Lake City contest to help officials decide what's next for Smith's Ballpark, seen here in 2015. When the owners of the Salt Lake Bees announced they were moving their minor league baseball team to the suburbs, Matthew LaPlan...
Brent Chamberlain, associate professor in Utah State University’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, was recently recognized with a Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Excellence in Research and/or Creative Works A...
When Daniella Hirschfeld led workshops last year that brought together community planners, engineers, and policymakers to focus on adapting to rising sea levels, the conversations did not begin with questions about whether or not the water is rising and w...
LAEP Alumna Allysia Angus, M.L.A, '99, has cared for the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument for more than two decades in her role as a landscape architect for the Bureau of Land Management in Utah.
Civil engineering undergraduate students Ryan Richens, Trevor Wilson, Grace Sunderland and Robert Gordon worked with landscape architecture and environmental planning graduate student Justin Jaques to redesign the Aggie Village.
Demonstrating enthusiasm for teaching and learning and a willingness to innovate during a pandemic-altered semester earned Bailey Johnson recognition as the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Fellow in CAAS for the 2020-21 academic year.
This video showcases LAEP student Kyle Young's submission for his final project for his advanced geospatial analysis class at Utah State University while pursuing a degree in Landscape architecture.
Like all built landscapes, they are physical manifestations of the attitudes, perceptions, and values of the people who create them. The problem is that often the creators don’t fully consider how people who are different from themselves might want to use...
Angus continued her education, ultimately receiving a master’s degree in landscape architecture through Utah State University. As a graduate student, she worked on a project investigating the potential for trust lands outside of Big Water, Utah.
Three USU LAEP students and their two teammates at the University of Utah were recently named winners of the 2021 Utah Real Estate Challenge and claimed the contest’s $20,000 grand prize.
To design the site, the tribe has partnered with an interdisciplinary group of students and professors from Utah State University’s Quinney College of Natural Resources and the university’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. ...
Professor Keith Christensen has been promoted to the rank of professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
Due to unprecedented events resulting from the spread of COVID-19, faculty at USU and colleges and universities across the country faced the challenge of moving their classes online in just a matter of days.
USU's faculty members Keith Christensen and Ziqi Song were recently awarded a $2.5 million grant to examine community planning and policies throughout communities on Utah’s Wasatch Front and the participation of individuals with disabilities.
Biographies usually have chapters, but if you are a Quebec-born artist you might call them tableaus, “Living scenes that depict important moments of my life,” said Caroline Levoie at her Oct. 29 Inaugural Professor Lecture.
During the Fall 2018 semester, students in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning’s (LAEP) Urban Theory and Design studio, led by Caroline Lavoie, completed a project with the City of Ogden.
Virtual reality (VR) isn’t the wave of the future. It’s now. VR allows us to immerse ourselves in another world without leaving the comfort of our homes.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that a group of students from USU have won 3rd place in their annual Campus RainWorks Challenge.
Daniella Hirschfeld and Todd Johnson, FASLA, have accepted faculty positions within Utah State University’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
The Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (LAEP) Department is hosting international sketching artist, Jim Richards, for a public forum, all-day sketching workshop and a sketch walk the second week of April.
Over the past 45 years, USU’s Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (LAEP) department and Extension specialists have engaged Utah’s rural communities through a variety of design-based activities.
Professor Sean Michael, head of Utah State University's Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (LAEP) is among the five professionals inducted as 2019 Fellows of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA).
Caroline Lavoie, associate professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, is the recipient of the 2019 Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Faculty Award of Excellence in Design Studio Teaching at the Senior Level.
Moving to Bengaluru, India, for an internship, a city with more people on one street than in the entire town of Inkom, Idaho, was a big step for Ashely Casperson, a Utah State University senior.
Students, professors, and friends of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning recently came together to create a comprehensive plan for the City of Layton during the annual Charrette.
