Dr. Jules Bruck Named Dean of the University of Georgia College of Environment and Design
Dr. Jules Bruck has been named Dean of the University of Georgia College of Environment and Design, effective July 1, 2026. She will continue in her current position through June 30, 2026.
Since joining the University of Florida in 2022, Dr. Bruck has served as chair of the UF Department of Landscape Architecture and director of the UF School of Landscape Architecture and Planning. During her tenure, she helped the Department achieve reaccreditation and oversaw significant growth across the school’s degree programs.
“I’m incredibly grateful to the students, faculty and staff that made my time here at UF so wonderful,” said Bruck. “This is truly an incredible community filled with some of the brightest minds in our field, and I can’t wait to see what they accomplish in the future”.
Dr. Bruck’s focus on resilient design brought a fresh perspective to the Department, focusing on coastal resilience research, sustainable methods to combat sea-level rise, and improving coastal community defenses against increasingly powerful natural disasters. During her time at UF, she provided funding opportunities to students through grants secured from the U.S. Department of Defense, the Engineer Research and Development Center, and the Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering with Nature program. Her funded projects provided opportunities for students and faculty to conduct research on environmental resilience, ecosystem service benefits, community engagement and future land use planning. Guided by an unwavering commitment to student success, Dr. Bruck cultivated hands-on learning experiences and amplified student voices through conference presentations and travel opportunities.
During her tenure, she made numerous improvements, including overseeing the reaccreditation of the landscape architecture program, increasing the Department’s research awards, hiring several high-caliber faculty members, stabilizing the Department’s finances, and revitalizing the Department’s Advisory Council.
A registered landscape architect, Dr. Bruck was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2024, recognized by Design Intelligence as one of the field’s “Most Admired Educators,” and selected as a UF Fellow in the Southeastern Conference Academic Consortium’s Academic Leadership Development Program for 2025–26.
Before coming to UF, Dr. Bruck founded the landscape architecture program at the University of Delaware in 2016 and launched the Coastal Resilience Design Studio (CRDS), an initiative combining interdisciplinary internships with community-driven design. The CRDS has earned national recognition for influencing local land-use policy and driving nearly $10 million in infrastructure investment.
“I am most grateful to Dr. Bruck for her service to the College of Design, Construction and Planning over the last four years as Director of the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning, and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. We wish her well in her new role at UGA.” – Chimay Anumba, Dean, UF College of Design, Construction and Planning.
