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The College of Environmental Design is proud to announce that the Landscape Architecture Foundation has named Sariyah Benoit (MLA 2027) to the fourth cohort of its LAF Ignite scholarship and mentorship program.

Professor of Architecture Neyran Turan and her firm, NEMESTUDIO, were recently recognized in Architectural Record, with their CS2 House named June’s House of the Month. Located in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood, the single-family residence challenges the area’s typical post-WWII box-style homes with a striking design featuring an oversized shed roof and a cylindrical ground floor.

Rachel Vineberg Jones (MArch 2019) and her husband Eric Jones have made a generous commitment to the College of Environmental Design to increase access to design education for North Bay high school students.

The College of Environmental Design was saddened to learn of the death of Professor Emeritus Edward Blakely, who passed away on September 6 at the age of 87 in his adopted hometown of Sydney, Australia. A specialist in post-disaster urban policy and planning, Blakely joined the faculty of the Department of City & Regional Planning in 1974; he served as department chair from 1986 until his retirement in 1994.