Laura Lawson
Laura Lawson now at Rutgers University
Conspicuously absent from the Landscape Architecture Department this fall is Professor Laura Lawson. Beginning this fall, she is the new Chair for the Landscape Architecture Department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Lawson is the recent winner of the 2010 Great Places Book Award, as well as the College of Fine and Applied Arts Award of Excellence for Service, for her leadership of ESLARP. Lawson is also a popular professor who has provided encouragement and enthusiasm to Landscape Architecture students for the past eight years. Her energy, scholarship and thoughtful consultations will be missed by the students who have benefited from her teaching at the University of Illinois. We wish her every success and happiness as she takes this next step in her career. As she says, “I’m never more than an e-mail away.”
