Department of Landscape Architecture
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
College of Fine and Applied Arts
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Gary Kesler and Terry Harkness after receiving their medals at the 2007 ASLA Annual Meeting. (Photo by Sarah Harkness Wotherspoon.)
Awards and Honors for Landscape Architecture Faculty

 

Terence Harkness

At the ASLA Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA, October, 2007) Professor Terry Harkness received the Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal, which is the nation’s highest honor for excellence in education.  The full citation which is on-line at http://www.asla.org/awards/2007/medals/awarded/harkness.html, underscores how “Harkness’ passion for teaching continues to inspire many leading designers in the profession today.”

Gary B. Kesler

At the ASLA Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA, October, 2007) Professor 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.  Through his skill as a tenured professor and leader of the Society, Gary has followed in the footsteps of Jot D. Carpenter and other leading educators to promote the values of our academic system for the profession and concern for future recruitment of landscape architects.”

Amita Sinha

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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