WASHINGTON, DC, October 10, 2003 —The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the Recipients of its 2003 Student Awards. Of the 210 entries submitted for consideration, the seven-member jury selected 14 projects to receive first-place Awards in 10 categories and 29 projects to receive special commendations in seven categories. The Awards will be presented during the ASLA Annual Meeting, October 30-November 3, in New Orleans.

CATEGORY: Research

• Undergraduate Individual Award Recipients
  
  First Place 
  Jennifer K. Margison, Student ASLA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas — Station Area
  Redevelopment for Rural Communities
  
  Commendation
  Manuel Arencibia, Associate ASLA, University of Florida — A Redevelopment of Cuban Memorial Boulevard and the Latin Quarter
  
  
• Undergraduate Team Award Recipients
  
  First Place
  Ryan R. Binkowski, Associate ASLA, and Aaron Feldman-Grosse, Associate ASLA, The Pennsylvania State University — I Sassi Di Matera: A Landscape Interpreted
  
  Commendations 
  Michele Schuster, Brooke Ingram, Nicolette Slagle, Rebecca Mitchell, and Emily Volgstadt,
  The Pennsylvania State University — Principles of Urban Spatial Design - Piazza della Rotunda
  
  
• Graduate Individual Award Recipients
  
  First Place
  George Hazelrigg, Associate ASLA, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University— The Thickness of Landscape, Horizontally and Vertically Considered
  
  Commendations 
  Jeff Maxwell, Associate ASLA, University of Florida — Restorative Environments & Landscape Architecture in Healthcare Settings
  Sivaya Parasivam, Associate ASLA, University of Minnesota — Spirit Island Native American Holocaust Memorial
  Kelly Alison Pugh, Student ASLA, University of Texas at Arlington — Straighter is Not Always Better
  Lori L. Pullman, Associate ASLA, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona — The Creativity Experience
  Kimberly L. Rennick, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — Process: A Strategy for Developing Place Attachment and Community Life
  Steven Rasmussen Cancian, University of California, Berkeley — Sidewalk Living Rooms
  Nandita Godbole, University of Illinois — User Dynamics in Two Neighborhood Parks, Bombay, India
  
  
• Graduate Team Award Recipient
  
  First Place
  Sadahisa Kato, Student ASLA, and Stanley J. Szwalek, III, University of Michigan — Revealing the Japanese Garden
  
  
•   Second Professional Individual Award Recipients  
  
  First Place
  Steve Roelof, University of Oregon — Inevitable Emergence
  Claire Dorlac-Leach, University of Oregon — An Artist's Garden
  
  

  CATEGORY: Design   

•   Undergraduate Individual Award Recipients
  
  First Place
  Jen Degidts, University of Guelph — Integrating Bird Habitat with Golf Course Design
  Kristina White, University of Guelph — Green Roofs: Second Nature
  Laura Thompson, Ball State University — Pavonine Park: A Residential Park at 14th and U Sts., Washington, DC
  
  Commendations
  Jeff Schurek, Associate ASLA, University of Guelph — Uncommon Ground: Revelation of the Urban Experience
  Elizabeth A. Scott, Student ASLA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas — Mojave Plaza
  Emily Mann, University of Guelph — The Philosophy of Design
  Jeph Brown, University of Guelph — Redesigning Naturalistic Zoo Habitats for Animal Comfort and Visibility
  Holly Purvis, University of Guelph — The New Face of Urban Agriculture
  Saya Nakano, University of Guelph — Revealing the Flow of the City
  B. Cannon Ivers, Colorado State University — Nokhu Crags Resort, Colorado
  
  
•   Undergraduate Team Award Recipients
  
  First Place
  Brock Reimer, Student ASLA, and Ken Gibson, Kansas State University Tierra Segunda
  
  Commendations 
  Shawn Balon, Student ASLA, Patrick Kelly, Student ASLA, Mark Stuermann, Student ASLA, and Laura Voelz, Student ASLA, Clemson University — Active Discovery Education
  Shannon Lee Mohr and Timothy John Norder, Michigan State University — Echo
  Melissa Gumbis and Tonya Hunter, Michigan State University — A Sound Experience
  Kevin Burch and Jonathan Nutt, West Virginia University — Cincinnati Central Riverfront Park
  Joshua Turnbull and Travis Webb, Arizona State University — Phoenix Rio Salado Multi-Cultural Pathway
  Josh Metzger, Anne McKisson, and Amy Groner, Ohio State University — Applebrook
  Joseph Charles and April Dewart, Rutgers University — Designing the High Line: The Synergy of Nature and Culture
  
  
• Graduate Individual Award Recipients
  
  First Place
  Sansern Kiatsupaibul, University of Florida — Urban Revitalization Through Green Infrastructure at Allapattah Neighborhood, Miami
  
  Commendations
  Huilai Shi, Student ASLA, University of Pennsylvania — La Carlota: Plotting the Hidden City
  Pallavi Shashank Shinde, Student ASLA, University of Georgia — Stormwater: The Flow from Liability to Asset
  Anne Samuel, University of Virginia — High Water Line
  
  Commendations
  Robin Carmichael, University of Virginia — Threshold
  Patricia Sharpe, University of Toronto — Getaway
  
  
• Graduate Team Award Recipients
  
  First Place 
  Scott Chastain, Student ASLA, Matthew Edwards, and Bradley L. Martin, Auburn University — Borderlands
  Susan E. Atkinson, Student ASLA, and Kuo-Liang Liao, Student ASLA, University of Texas at Arlington — Native American Music Garden
  
  Commendations
  Fan Wang, Student ASLA, and Monica Lynne Mahoney, University of Arizona — Urban Meridian: Panama City Waterfront Restoration
  John Fishback and Josh Segal, Student ASLA, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona — Developing a New Suburbanism
  
  
• Second Professional Individual Award Recipients
  
  First Place
  David Fletcher, Harvard University — Taylor Yard Master Plan
  

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