UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Six current Penn State students in the College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School and one recent alumnus have been honored for their design work through the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Student Awards program.
Fourth-year bachelor of landscape architecture students Olivia Krum, Anne Lai and Grace Stewart were named recipients of the Honor Award, which is considered the highest honor in the ASLA program.
Somdeep Nandy, a graduate student pursuing his master of landscape architecture degree, Christopher Coughlin, who graduated with his bachelor of landscape architecture degree earlier this month and fourth-year students Handou Chen and David Wasson each earned Merit Awards for their work.
“ASLA is the flagship professional association for landscape architects, and their annual student awards recognize students who are truly outstanding in our graduate and undergraduate programs. The awards highlight students’ design skills and technical expertise, but also their leadership in and commitment to the profession and the department,” said Roxi Thoren, department head and professor of landscape architecture. “Students are nominated by faculty and present their work to a panel of licensed landscape architects, who select the recipients. It is wonderful to see these students recognized by the ASLA, and a delight to have them as part of our Penn State community.”
The ASLA Student Honor and Merit Award Program, administered through the ASLA chapters, is a collaborative effort between chapters and landscape architecture programs. The awards recognize academic achievement, design competence and interpersonal skills through a body of their design work and are distributed to outstanding students in programs across the country.
The ASLA is the professional association for landscape architects in the United States and represents more than 15,000 members who support the development of research and continuing initiatives that enable practitioners to address the evolving challenges of landscape architectural practice. The organization’s mission is to advance landscape architecture through advocacy, communication, education and fellowship.