Mark Affum’s MLA thesis focuses on James Austin Floyd, a Canadian Landscape Architect. Floyd’s designs and writings influenced modern landscape architecture in Canada, says Affum in at Guelph news article.
The School of Environmental Design and Rural Development's Post Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Ataharul Chowdhury is featured in the November 2013 edition of Top Crop Manager. His article on pages 34 and 36 entitled "Spreading the 'Net - Using OnlineTools to Your Advantage", looks at the use of social media in agriculture.
This fall, the Ontario Agricultural College and School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) were proud to offer a new award. The new Thompson Graduate Studies Scholarship will be presented annually to a deserving student in the Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program.
Seaforth, Ontario - Gateway RHRI is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph at the Huron East Health Centre, 32B Centennial Drive, Seaforth, on Friday, October 25, 2013 at 1 p.m.
We invite SEDRD students to submit photos for the SEDRD Photo Competition that profile the School, your program, research and other University related activities. You may submit as many photos as you like into the following three categories which are intended to capture the diversity of the School:
A. Canadian Landscape/Community
B. Foreign Landscape/ Community
C. Students in Action (in the field or in our building).
The top photo in each category will receive a $50 gift certificate! (location of your choice)
Kathleen Corey, a Master of Landscape Architecture student in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph published an article in the Spacing (Vancouver) magazine entitled "Go Play in the Street - The Power of Park(ing) Day".
Kathleen's MLA thesis is on tactical urbanism strategies and programming for parklets with a comparative study in Vancouver and San Francisco. Her Advisor is Professor Nathan Perkins. Kathleen is also an Intern at PWL Partnership Inc. in Vancouver, BC.
Erika Dueck, a first year Master of Landscape Architecture student, at the University of Guelph is the national winner of the BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition and received the $10,000 prize for her mixed media installation, The Ephemeral Mind. Erika also holds a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours from the University of Manitoba.
Graduate students in the Capacity Development and Extension program are working hard to contribute to a cause that the Guelph Community has been fighting for the last few months regarding the relocation of the Pacemaker Clinic to Kitchener, Ontario. CDE students were brought together by the Community Environmental Leadership class with a mission to seek the welfare and improve the health of hundreds of pacemaker patients, their families and of Guelph residence.
The Toronto Star highlighted an article on the research with Professor Glen Filson, Capacity Development and Extension program; SEDRD Adjunct Professor, Bamidele Adekunle; and CDE alumni, Sridharan Sethuratnam from the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph. The research focuses on determining the demand for ethno-cultural vegetables in the Greater Toronto Area.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/09/23/ontario_farmers_experiment_with_world_crops.html#
The Ontario Professional Planners Institute held its AGM meeting on Thursday, September 19, 2013 in London, Ontario. Adam Wright received the 2013 Gerald Carrothers Graduate Scholarship at this years conference. In May of this year Adam completed his MSc in Rural Planning and Development at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph. Adam's research at the graduate level focused on negotiated agreements and their interactions and impact on regulatory and legislative consultation processes associated with extractive resource development.