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RisingEMOTIONS was a public art project in 2019-2020 by Carolina Aragón, landscape architecture, that surveyed South Boston residents about their feelings concerning flooding caused by sea-level rise. The project was featured in a recent issue of CODAzine.

Lecamwasam's innovative senior project was titled "Translating Netherlands Flood Resilience Flood Insights in the American Context."

Gillespie and Brittan received awards for essays written in Professor Joseph Fritsch's Junior Year Writing class.

A team of UMass Amherst landscape architecture students led by Samantha Solano, PhD will participate in the 2025 Envision Resilience Challenge in the coastal towns of Bath and Harpswell, Maine.  

Four landscape architecture students received 2025 ASLA Student Awards in recognition of their outstanding academic character. 

Sneha Vithal Shinde, an MLA '25 graduate and ASLA Honor Award Winner, was featured in Athol Daily News for her master's project: "Rooted: Fish Park – A Cultural Landscape for Community Healing."

Ola Smialek, a PhD Candidate in Regional Planning at UMass, was honored with the 2025 Sankofa Sage Award at Westfield State University. Smialek is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Geography, Planning, and Sustainability Department at Westfield State.

Eva Berlgoff, BSSCD, was honored with the 2024-2025 Gerald F. Scanlon Student Employee of the Year Award.

Professor Bischoff received a BSLA Jury Special Recognition Award for “Recovering and Sharing the Work of Frank A. Waugh for New Audiences," a project about her recent book, The Man Who Loved Trees.