ASLA 2007 Student Awards

General Design Category

Award of Excellence

		Plugging In: Bringing the Stream Back to Watts Toshihiko T. T. Karato, Student ASLA University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Faculty Advisors: Elissa Rosenberg, ASLA and Elizabeth Meyer, FASLA

Honor Awards


		“Living Corridor”--from Ditch to Greenway: Chinghe Riverfront Landscape Renovation Zhenqing Que, Student Affiliate ASLA Tsinghua University, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture Department, Beijing, China Faculty Advisors: Rui Yang, Laurie D. Olin, FASLA, Ron Henderson, and Colin Franklin, ASLA				island is land Yu Kwon, Afffiliate ASLA, Joon-ho Shin, Student Affiliate ASLA, Jeong-sam Kwon, Student Affiliate ASLA, Hyo-jin Kim, Student Affiliate ASLA and Jihyun Lee, Student Affiliate ASLA University of Seoul, Korea, Seoul, South Korea Faculty Advisors: Kyu-mok Lee, Ah-yeon Kim, International ASLA, and Jung-min Choi



		*(In)Security: Access and Anxiety in the Wall Street Financial District* Bret C. Wieseler, Student ASLA University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Faculty Advisors: Dean Abbott, Rebecca Krinke, Lance Nekar, and Richard Hansen				Pte Oyate Academy Megumi Aihara, Student ASLA, Eric Gordon, Student ASLA, Takuma Ono, Student ASLA and Julia Watson, Student ASLA Harvard University – Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts Faculty Advisor: Scheri Fultineer



		SWALESCAPES Noah Z. Levy, Student ASLA University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Faculty Advisors: David Gouverneur and Lucinda R. Sanders, ASLA

Residential Design Category

Award of Excellence

		Prairie Roots: Site Design for Solar Decathlon Project Solar Home Mark Ruzicka, Student ASLA and Celine Andersen, Student ASLA Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Faculty Advisors: Stephanie Rolley, FASLA and Tim Keane



Honor Award

		Dream Balloons Tang Xiaolu, Student Affiliate ASLA, Han Xiaoxi, Student Affiliate ASLA and Cao Yiyun, Student Affiliate ASLA Tongji University, Shanghai, China Faculty Advisor: Dong Nannan

Analysis and Planning Category

Award of Excellence

	The Sea of Galilee Coast: From Line to Space Ilana Smolyar, Student Affiliate ASLA Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Faculty Advisors: Tal Alon-Mozes, Nava Regev, Anat Sade, and Amir Mueller



Honor Awards

	Remodeling Renewal Leslie Webster, Student ASLA University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California Faculty Advisors: Randolph T. Hester, FASLA, Linda Jewell, FASLA, Marcia McNally, Louise Mozingo, and Michael Southworth	Repairing the Local Food System: Long-Range Planning for People’s Grocery Alethea Marie Harper, Student ASLA University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California Faculty Advisors: Charles Sullivan, Michael Southworth and Robert L. Thayer, FASLA



	Perkins Road Underpass: Reconnecting Across Barriers Douglas Thompson, Student ASLA Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Faculty Advisors: Wes Michaels and Brad Cantrell	The Landscape of the Informal City: A Landscape Approach to Upgrading an Informal Settlement in Kingston, Jamaica Karyn Williams, Student ASLA Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Faculty Advisor: Alissa North



	Event Landscape: Halifax Harbour Festival Van Thi Diep, Student Affiliate ASLA University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Faculty Advisor: John Danahy, ASLA

Research Category

Honor Awards

	Cross-Cultural Perceptions of the Cultural Landscape in American Suburban-Strip Chinatowns Yun Cao, Student ASLA Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida Faculty Advisors: Richard C. Rome, ASLA, Alfredo B. Lorenzo, ASLA, Matthew Powers, ASLA, and Andrew Chin	Visual Preference for Stormwater Pond Edge Treatments Kimberly S. Heiss, Student ASLA University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Faculty Advisors: Les Linscott and Gary Purdum



	Living Lightly: Minimizing Impact and Maximizing Function of Suburban Yards Mike Teed, Student ASLA University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Faculty Advisors: Ronald Kellett and Patrick Condon, ASLA

Communications Category

Honor Awards

	The Digital Art on Campus Project Grant Thompson, Student ASLA Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Faculty Advisors: Allison Sheridan, Michael Martin, and Ann Marie VanDerZanden	lunch: dialect Shanti Levy, Student ASLA, David Malda, Student ASLA and Ryan Moody, Student ASLA University of Virginia School of Architecture, Charlottesville, Virginia Faculty Advisors: Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA, and Phoebe Crisman



	RESPOND: A Residential Oil Spill in St. Bernard Parish, LA Katherine Foo, Student ASLA, Heather Gott, Affiliate ASLA, Meredith Haamen, Affiliate ASLA, and Suzanne Perry, Affiliate ASLA University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources & Environment, Ann Arbor, Michigan Faculty Advisors: Bunyan Bryant and Gregory Button

Community Service

Award of Excellence

		Planting for the Future: Improving Math Skills through Landscape Architecture Reyna Baeza, Student ASLA, Alfredo Cornejo, Student ASLA, Alvaro Figueroa, Student ASLA, Terry Lu, Student ASLA, J. Marshall Mason, Student ASLA, Donna Yeung, Student ASLA and Jennifer Yi, Student ASLA California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, La Puente, California Faculty Advisor: Gerald Taylor, Jr., ASLA



Honor Award

		Safe Passage Entry Garden Amanda Bell, Student ASLA, Paul Chasan, Student ASLA, Terri Chiao, Student ASLA, Arielle Farina Clark, Student ASLA, Hilary Clark, Student ASLA, Jocelyn L. Freilinger, Student ASLA, Ryan Ihm, Student ASLA, Jeff Kurtz, Student ASLA, Vanessa Lee, Student ASLA, David Marshall, Student ASLA, Noriko Marshall, Student ASLA, Justin Martin, Student ASLA, Michael Michalek, Student ASLA, Nicole Mikesh, Student ASLA, and Elizabeth Umbanhowar, Student ASLA University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Faculty Advisor: Daniel Winterbottom, ASLA

Collaboration Category

Honor Awards

	Wild Urbanism Anna Hook, Student ASLA and Heather Rusch University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Faculty Advisors: Brook Muller and Ron Lovinger, ASLA	Navigating Nature Ryan Bitzegaio, Megan Caylor, Elizabeth Clay, Alex Corn, Charles Estell, Francesca Hernandez, Student ASLA, Ashley Keith, Christopher Patten, Student ASLA, Nicole Randolph, Nadia Roumie, Adam Voirin, Student ASLA, Kelly Woodward, Student ASLA Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana Faculty Advisor: Martha Hunt



	Toolboxes for Learning Cortney Kirk, Student Affiliate, Roger Wei, Student ASLA and Mike Hahn, Student ASLA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island Faculty Advisor: Nadine Gerdts

The 2007 Student Awards ceremony and reception are sponsored by Landscape Forms.

Twelve distinguished landscape architecture firms and ASLA chapters generously contributed sponsorships to the 2007 student awards program to bring the top recipients in each category to San Francisco to receive their awards in person:
BNIM Architects
Design Workshop
EDAW, Inc.
LRM, Ltd. Landscape Architecture
Minnesota Chapter of ASLA (MASLA)
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.
Reed/Hilderbrand
Sasaki Associates, Inc.
Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects
Stantec
Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC
Wood + Partners, Inc.

To join these firms in recognizing the achievements of ASLA student award winners by sponsoring one—or more—of them to attend the meeting, please click on this link and complete the form to pledge a contribution to the ASLA Fund. Contributions to the ASLA Fund are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information, please contact Ann Looper, ASLA’s Director of Public Relations and Resource Development, at 202-216-2369 or alooper@asla.org.