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•  The Department of Landscape Architecture celebrated the retirement of Associate Professor Bob Grist, FASLA, at the end of the spring semester after 30 years at the University of Florida (including seven years as Chair of the Department).

•  After a national search, UF has hired Rob Holmes as Assistant Professor. Rob will begin in August and comes to UF from a balanced background of teaching at Virginia Tech and practice with Michael Vergason Landscape Architects. His area of focus and research is in site construction/intervention technology and digital representation.

•  The University of Florida has again won the national championship for Green Infrastructure – having taken first place in the "EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge" Master Plan category for a large university. This year’s new team of 16 LA students, three Engineering students and one fine arts student, plus faculty advisor Glenn Acomb, FASLA, created the concept of energizing a campus water ethic, the Team’s design features daylighting stormwater on Inner Road and through a bioswale to tell the story of "Our Water’s Journey from Source to Sink." For more information, visit our UF webpage http://dcp.ufl.edu/landscape/rainworks-challenge
  

•  The Department of Landscape Architecture is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Kay Williams, FASLA, is ASLA’s new Vice President of Education.

•  Assistant Professor Kevin Thompson has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to continue his work in Indonesia.

•  The Landscape Architecture Foundation announced that senior undergraduate student Viviana Castro was a finalist for the prestigious 2014 National Olmsted Scholar ASLA Program. Last year, she was awarded the ASLA Council of Fellows Scholarship.
  

•  Senior undergraduate student Laura Snider attended the ASLA Legislative Week with faculty member and ASLA Vice President Kay Williams, as well as with Past President Emily O’Mahoney. Laura will be attending Law School at Emory University in the fall.

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