SNRE Professor Joan Iverson Nassauer has received the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the Rackham Graduate School. The award honors senior faculty who consistently demonstrate outstanding achievements in scholarly research and/or creative endeavors; teaching and mentoring of students and junior faculty; service; and other activities that bring distinction to themselves and the University of Michigan. Nassauer joined SNRE's Landscape Architecture program in 1997. She is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and the International Association for Landscape Ecology.
This year's Whittemore Lecture in Landscape Architecture featured a panel discussion on the topic "Landmark Women in Landscape Architecture." The Institute for Research on Women and Gender co-sponsore the lecture with SNRE.
University of Michigan Professor Joan Iverson Nassauer has a lead role in a new $27.5 million federally funded center to promote synthesis of the social and environmental sciences and produce actionable research for policy and practice.
In the (Aug. 4) edition of The New York Times, Landscape Architecture Professor Joan Nassauer discusses land-use strategies for urban areas dealing with too many vacant lots. The article, titled í¢â‚¬Å“Finding the Potential in Vacant Lots,í¢â‚¬ examines how American cities are rethinking the value of the thousands of vacant lots now reshaping their landscapes.
SNRE Professor Joan Nassauer's research on Iowa farmers suggests that they support goals of crop diversity and healthy production methods, but that many are unsure of how to change their practices, information that help inform policy. Professor Nassauer presented her work at the Iowa Environmental Council conference this week, and she was quoted by Public News Service reporter Deb Courson in "A New Vision for Iowa's Corn Belt--Research Unveiled This Week."
Joan Iverson Nassauer, a professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, was named Distinguished Landscape Ecologist for her scientific contributions to the field by the U.S. Regional Association (national chapter) of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE). Professor Nassauer is the first person to be named both Distinguished Landscape Ecologist (2010) and Distinguished Practitioner of Landscape Ecology (1998) by the organization.
Joan Iverson Nassauer, a professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment, has been elected the first secretary of a new national organization of designers. The group, the National Academy of Environmental Design (NAED), is focused on reshaping national research priorities to more fully incorporate sustainable design as a means of responding to pressing global challenges including climate change, species extinction and a wide range of epidemics and toxins affecting human health.
Joan Iverson Nassauer, a professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, has received a second consecutive award for published research from the U.S. International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE). Nassauer has received honorable mentions for "Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology" the past two years. The latest award was given earlier this month for a paper in the September 2008 issue of Landscape Ecology, the journal of IALE. Last year, Nassauer and co-authors received an honorable mention for a paper in the December 2007 issue of the same journal.