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Student's Design Coming to Life
OSU landscape architecture student Dan Mesenbrink’s community garden design for the Jewish Federation of Tulsa is currently under construction. Federation members recently talked about the project on a Tulsa television station. Click here for video. |
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Mesenbrink, a senior from Yukon, listened to the client to transform ideas into a successful and responsive design. OSU landscape architecture alumni Carl Szafranski of the office of Szfranski and Pugh transferred Dan’s plan into construction documents. The Jewish Federation plans to donate the vegetables grown from the garden to local food banks. (April 2012) |
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5th year Landscape Architecture Student to Travel to Washington DC
Congratulations go out to Corbin Francis, 5th year Landscape Architecture student for winning a scholarship to ASLA Advocacy Day. The scholarship covers Corbin’s expenses for a 3 day trip (May 9th – 11th) to Washington DC where he will join professionals from across the country in a series of meeting with congressional representatives . Corbin will work directly with local professional Jeff Pugh (Tulsa, OK-ASLA President) and Scott Howard (OKC, OK-ASLA Trustee) advocating for issues relevant to the Landscape Architecture profession. Corbin is one of five Landscape Architecture students across the U.S. to be awarded this honor.
Two New Hybrid Turf Bermudagrasses
NorthBridge™ and Latitude 36™ hybrid bermudagrasses are the two newest releases in the OSU line of improved turf bermudagrasses. Both bermudagrasses are vegetatively propagated (no commercial seed), fine textured and have excellent winter hardiness along with outstanding turfgrass color, quality, density and divot recovery rate. Both grasses performed exceptionally well in the 2007-2012 NTEP National Bermudagrass Trial conducted in multiple states where bermudagrass is adapted. Development of NorthBridge™ and Latitude 36™ was conducted with support from the United State Golf Association (USGA), OSU - Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station and the Oklahoma Turfgrass Research Foundation (OTRF). Learn more . . .
Students take Collegiate Contest at SR-ASHS
| OSU Horticulture Student Judging Team came away with an overall 1st place at the Southern Regions - American Society for Horticultural Science 72nd Annual Meeting, February 4-6, 2012 in Birmingham, AL.Class placings of 1st in the greenhouse floral and foliage, 3rd in vegetable crops and 3rd in fruit and nuts raised the OSU team to the top |  |
for the overall winner of the competion. Sunny Evans, Horticultural Science major placed 2nd overall in the individual rankings. Individual placings in the greenhouse floral and foliage class was Kristen Willis 1st and Kenny White 2nd place. Willis is a horticultural business major and White is a public horticulture major in the Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Department. Courtney DeKalb, was elected as the New ACB Treasurer. Other team members included Yuki Roberts and Alexis Franzmann. Team members were coached by Dr. Janet Cole and Dr. Brian Kahn.
LA/Civil Design Charrette
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In early February, the senior landscape architecture design studio and the senior civil engineering students sat down to the design the future. Specifically, they were looking at the potential of the a new entry road to the Botanic Garden at Oklahoma State University as part of the Integrated Environmental |
Research and Education Site, also known as IERES. Students explored a variety of innovative environmentally sustainable solutions that would facilitate research and serve as demonstrations of what the potential of a road could be. Solutions addressed storm water management, kinetic energy production, and pervious materials to name a few. The students especially enjoyed the interdisciplinary collaboration that gave them a taste of the professional world to come.
Students recognized in international competition
The Oklahoma State University students who were named finalists in the “Parkitecture” design competition include, from left, Brandon Burlingame, Forrest Hunt, Clark Bockhahn and Cameron Rouze. More . . .
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