EVDS' makeCalgary research platform is partnering with Leaf & Lyre to bring the farm to the University of Calgary campus as part of the Wandering Farmer initiative.
Rene Siu (bottom right) missed her University of Calgary graduation ceremonies last month. Instead, she was in Pijal, Ecuador, volunteering her design skills alongside a team of architects and engineers from across North America.
Dr. Nancy Pollock-Ellwand has been reappointed as Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, effective July 1, 2014 for a six-year term.
Calgary's 2013 flood is a fading memory for many people, but it's top of mind for students, faculty and staff in the Faculty of Environmental Design as they examine ways to build safer and more resilient communities.
Growly was the scourge of Glacier. In the late 1970s, the adolescent male grizzly bear tore through Montana's Glacier National Park, clawing up cabins and campgrounds until he was captured and relocated by park rangers, at which point he'd crawl his way back to civilization to execute another round of property damage.
Renowned landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander received an honorary degree from the University of Calgary during the morning convocation on Wednesday, June 11, in recognition of her philanthropic efforts and contributions to her field.
Dr. Mike Quinn, Talisman Energy Research Chair, Mount Royal University, and Dr. Mary-Ellen Tyler of the Faculty of Environmental Design are the co-principal investigators of one of the four successful proposals in the Canadian Water Network Centre of Excellence’s recent national competition “Advancing Decisions for Hydraulic Fracturing and Water”.
As a younger generation of Cambodians begins to embrace and celebrate their recent past, they face a new war – that of foreign investment and development that often favors dollar signs and the wrecking ball over preservation and education.
Kaz Bremner and Jeremiah Deutscher are two young intern architects, and the design duo of a four-person team, that have won the inaugural Robson Redux design-build competition.
On April 25th, 2014, Rozhen Mohammed-Amin, EVDS alumna and current PhD candidate, celebrated her recent work promotion alongside fellow students at EVDS.
