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Now more than ever, landscape architects and planners are needed to help solve today’s biggest challenges, from housing inequality, to food insecurity and climate change. Our department offers professionally accredited degree programs in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. We also offer a highly flexible Sustainable Community Development undergraduate program and a skills-based Associate of Science in Landscape Contracting.
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The 8th Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning: Healing Place and Planet will take place April 11-13, 2025, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Garden x Graphite Scholarship Fund raises $200K to empower landscape architecture students
The Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass Amherst is pleased to announce that the Garden X Graphite Scholarship Fund reached its $200,000 fundraising goal.
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Megan McDonough (MRP '08) Receives Women of Impact Award
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