M. Elen Deming

In October, 2008, M. Elen Deming was elected First Vice President/President-Elect of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). Deming was also named a Fellow of CELA in January 2009.

The American Society of Landscape Architecture 2008 Honor Award in Communications was awarded for the 25th Anniversary of Landscape Journal, edited by M. Elen Deming from 2002 to 2009.

Rebecca Ginsburg

The College of Fine and Applied Arts has awarded Rebecca Ginsburg the 2008-2009 Faculty Award for Excellence in Service. The announcement from the College read: "Rebecca Ginsburg, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, in addition to fine teaching and research, fulfills her service obligation to the campus and community in highly innovative ways. Besides a good load of departmental committee work, she has founded and supervises the Education Justice Program to bring UIUC classes to inmates at the Danville State Correctional Center."

Terence Harkness

At the 2007 ASLA Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA, October, 2007) Professor Terry Harkness received the Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal. This medal is awarded to "an individual who has made a sustained and significant contribution to landscape architecture education." The full citation underscores how “Harkness’ passion for teaching continues to inspire many leading designers in the profession today.”

Dianne Harris

In 2009, Dianne Harris is serving as First Vice President of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH).

Harris is also recognized for her role as guest editor for "Race, Space and the Destabilization of Practice," Volume 26:1 (Spring 2007) of Landscape Journal. This special issue was prominently featured in the 2008 Landscape Journal Honor Award in Communications which was received from the ASLA for the 25th Anniversary of Landscape Journal.

David Hays

In 2007-2008, David Hays was honored with the Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship for Studies in Landscape Architecture.

In 2006, the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) awarded him the Excellence in Studio Design Award.

Gary B. Kesler

At the ASLA Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA, October, 2007) former Associate Head Gary Kesler was awarded the ASLA President’s Medal, “in recognition of his sustained, unselfish, and devoted service to the Society at the national level for over 30 years." Twenty-eight of those years were spent as a faculty member and associate head with the Landscape Architecture Department, University of Illinois.

D. Fairchild Ruggles

In 2009, The Foundation for Landscape Studies awarded D. Fairchild Ruggles the J. B. Jackson Book Prize for her book Islamic Gardens and Landscapes (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).

Amita Sinha

In Spring 2009, Amita Sinha is a Senior Fulbright Scholar in New Delhi, India. She is affiliated with Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) where she is engaged in a number of projects including listing and mapping of natural heritage sites and organizing a symposium on environmental heritage of Delhi. She is also researching the National Archives and Archaeological Survey of India documents for her forthcoming book on heritage landscapes in India. She is lecturing at Indian Institute of Technology, Jamia-Milia University, and the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi. She presented at the Modern Asian Architecture Network Conference and the Sacred Arts Festival, both held in Delhi.

On September 27, 2007, Professor Amita Sinha was presented with a plaque of recognition by the Eco-Development Foundation, New Delhi, India for "major contributions to research on and raising awareness of cultural landscapes of South Asia."

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