The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) awarded Lee-Su Huang, Mark McGlothlin, Kristin Nelson and Lisa Huang (not pictured), from the UF School of Architecture, with the honorable Service Member Patriot Award. The four faculty members were nominated by Ken Cobb, an architecture student that was deployed last spring. Faculty members worked with […]
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The University of Florida Historic Preservation Program announced today that former UF faculty member Herschel Shepard will receive the 2016 Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished Achievement Award and Flagler College Director of Historic Preservation and Special Initiatives Leslee Keys will receive the inaugural UF Historic Preservation Distinguished Alumni Award. The awards ceremony will take
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Students and faculty in the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning volunteered in two post-disaster debris cleanups following the recent hurricanes on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. The cleanup following Hurricane Hermine was in Cedar Key, and in coordination with the city’s International Coastal Cleanup event. Along with DCP students and faculty, many volunteers across
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Organized by DCP doctoral students, the Ethics and the Built Environment Symposium aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between ethics and the built environment, especially within the rapid pace of cultural and technological production, agricultural challenges, and climate change in our contemporary world; to promote the consideration of ethics in the production
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Acclaimed architect Alfred Browning Parker, B.Arch. 1939, who passed away in 2011, would have turned 100 on September 24, 2016. Randolph C. Henning, B.Des 1976, wanted to recognize and celebrate Parker’s legacy by curating an exhibition for Florida’s most respected and revered architect. The Discipline of Nature: Architect Alfred Browning Parker in Florida exhibition on
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The UF landscape architecture undergraduate and graduate programs underwent a double re-accreditation in mid-October, testing the first-ever double re-accreditation review of its kind. Typically, an accreditation for undergraduate and graduate programs are done separately with an accreditation team of three people over a period of three days. This time, both programs went through the review
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, UF Historic Preservation Program Director Morris Hylton III, working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, led a group of historic preservation students in assessing damage in St Augustine to help flood victims apply for relief. We talked with him to learn more about the process and experience. Name: Morris “Marty” Hylton
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[foogallery id=”10430″] Congratulations to John Sofarelli, BBC 1981, and David Brandon, BBC 1981, who were both inducted into M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management’s 2016 Construction Hall of Fame on homecoming weekend. “The love I have for the program is what drives the passion to give back, and I’m so thankful to be here
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Gainesville, Fla. – Policies for Action (P4A) announced today that Sherry Ahrentzen, principal investigator from the University of Florida, along with Lynne Dearborn, co-principal investigator from the University of Illinois, received $248,250 in grant funding for a research project. This research will examine how states are using incentives and other program criteria to advance healthier
Christopher Yanes, a second-year urban and regional planning graduate student, was selected as the honorary Mr. Two when the Gators took on the University of North Texas in September. He was selected for the role after entering into a student Two Bits competition. [foogallery id=”10306″] Q: What was the inspiration behind being Mr. Two Bits? A:
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