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A graduate student design competition at UC Berkeley yields a new meadow at Blake Garden that celebrates the botanical abundance of California and heightens our experience of the natural landscape. The learning lab for the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, Blake Garden provides landscape architecture students with opportunities like this to experiment with designed landscapes and unique plant combinations.

The Department of City & Regional Planning extends a warm welcome to Professor Monica Varsanyi, who officially joined the UC Berkeley faculty at the beginning of this year. A scholar of migration, membership, and the state, she is currently serving as the University of California systemwide vice provost for faculty affairs and academic programs.

Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott talk about the work of their firm, IwamotoScott, and what students should look for in an architecture school.

The new study, co-authored by Professor of City & Regional Planning Jason Corburn, finds that the city’s program led to a 61% decline in gun violence. Corburn, who also holds an appointment in the School of Public Health, is the author, most recently, of Advancing Peace: Ending Urban Gun Violence Through the Power of Redemptive Love.

The fall 2026 series spotlights international visiting faculty and features Yung Ho Chang (MArch 1984) as the inaugural Stanley Saitowitz Alumni Lecture speaker.