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Start with Intention – SEBA

Graduate school is a great time for self discovery. However, more often than not, graduate students question the next step to take for their careers at the very end of the training. This often leaves them unprepared for the job market and the diverse career paths they could pursue after their PhD. ‘Start with Intention’ is meant to challenge graduate students to think intentionally about their career paths earlier in their graduate school experience. With a panel of scientists who…

INFOcon 2021

INFOCon 2021 is a multi-day (Tuesday, October 19, 2021 – Thursday, October 21, 2021) virtual event that showcases the breadth and depth of information professions. This event is intended for prospective students interested in learning about career paths and research topics in the areas of information, technology, and people. We’ve invited faculty across the U.S. and Canada to share their expertise and passion for information sciences! The event is free, and attendees are welcome to attend sessions that interest them…

Power to the Pollinator Student Project

Over the past few decades, bees and other critical pollinator species have been experiencing a rapid decline in population. Natural ecosystems depend on these critters to pollinate roughly 85% of flowering species, which in turn provide habitat and nourishment for other wildlife. By gathering pollen and nectar from hundreds of flowers, pollinator species like bumble bees, mason bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and moths help diversify ecological communities and cultivate the lush landscapes that surround our built environments. BLA Student Daniella Slowik…

Fly By Night: A Designer’s Look at Bats in Seattle Parks

Sidney Greenslate, BLA ’21, completed this senior capstone research project and presented to the UW Landscape Architecture Department in Spring 2021. Inspiration: Art, Science & Creativity I was inspired to pursue this project in part by a talk given at the UW by landscape architect and designer David Buckley Borden. His playful, eye-catching installation pieces at the Harvard Forest combine science communication with keen design in the way that trained landscape architects are particularly poised to do. He encouraged the…

Celebrating Graduates | UW 2021 Gonfalonieres and Guardians of the Gonfalons

Each year the UW’s schools and colleges select students to lead their degree candidates during the commencement procession. These students are called gonfalonieres, because they carry the school’s gonfalon, a banner that hangs down from a crosspiece and bears that school’s name and symbol. Following tradition borrowed from the Italian Renaissance, the gonfalonieres represent some of the UW’s most accomplished students. Alumni volunteers watch over the banners during the ceremony, so that the gonfalonieres can enjoy their graduation experience. These…

Carbon Leadership Forum Member Impact: Sofia Segebre, BLA

Sofia Segebre, BLA ’21, has been working with the UW’s Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) since April of 2020 where she’s been supporting the team with general program administration as well as facilitating community outreach and collaboration. In February 2021, Sofia shared her motivation to reduced embodied carbon admissions in CLF’s Member Impact feature. Sofia Segebre CLF staff and undergraduate student; BLA Landscape Architecture, University of Washington Working with the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) has opened my eyes to see that…

Firms partner with UW, WSU to establish BIPOC landscape architecture scholarship

The University of Washington’s College of Built Environments and Washington State University’s School of Design and Construction are working together with Site Workshop, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN), and Berger Partnership to create an endowed scholarship in their respective landscape architecture programs to support students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). Site Workshop, a landscape architecture firm based in Seattle, began the process to establish the BIPOC LA Scholarship with WSU and UW in 2020. “For years…

Around the UW Farm: Sophia Falls

Sophia joined the BLA program in 2020. When she’s not studying landscape architecture, she’s a student staff member of the UW Farm. Check out Sophia’s profile from UW Farm below! Sophia Falls, First Year Student Staff, CSA Lead Sophia is a junior at UW majoring in Landscape Architecture with a minor in Geography. She is interested in the intersection between humans and their environment. Her first introduction to the UW Farm was through Eli Wheat’s Urban Farm course (See the…