NCSU Update: June 2022

NCSU Update: June 2022

by Meg Calkins, FASLA, FCELA

Graduation

We graduated a total of 22 Master of Landscape Architecture students this academic year – seven students in December 2021 and fifteen students in May 2022.

  • Our 2021-22 graduates are employed in Raleigh, Charlotte, New York, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Colorado, Florida and California.

  • Eight Spring MLA graduates passed Section 2 of the Landscape Architecture Licensing Exam.

  • MLA graduates William Stanton and Spencer Stone presented at the CELA, EDRA and NCASLA Conferences with Associate Professor Carla Delcambre.

  • MLA graduate Todd Elia-Warneken presented a poster with Associate Professor Carla Delcambre at the CELA Conference.

  • MLA Graduate Rebecca Asser placed second for the College of Design in the NC State Graduate Research Symposium with her poster, “Reimaging Maxton/Hayes Pond: Collaboration and Investigation of a Lumbee Landscape.”

  • Upper-level MLA students participated in the Duda Visiting Designer Program in January with NCSU Architecture students. MASS Design Group professionals led the program asking student teams to explore North Carolina’s complex history through the lens of racial justice, from the era of slavery to the present day. Students grappled with one of three memorial sites spanning geography and time to answer the question: How can spatializing memory support healing and inspire collective action for generations to come?

NCSU LAEP Leadership Transition

After four years as NCSU LAEP Department Head, Meg Calkins, FASLA, FCELA, will step down at the end of the month to devote more time to her teaching and scholarship. Under Calkins’ leadership, department enrollments increased by approximately 50% and underrepresented minority student enrollment increased from 2% to 8%. She led the faculty through a successful accreditation visit, recruited a new Director of the Natural Learning Initiative, and facilitated a substantial increase in funded research. Gene Bressler will serve as Interim Head for one year while a search for a new Head is conducted.