The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) recently announced the Fellow Class of 2025.

 
Byoung-Suk Kweon with the University of Maryland awarded to the Academy of Fellows where she was inducted at an awards dinner at the 2025 CELA Annual Conference, March 27-29 at the Hyatt Regency Conference Center in Portland, Oregon.

"I am very honored and grateful to be a CELA fellow," Dr. Kweon told LASN, "I first attended the CELA conference in 2001. Since then, The CELA community has been the source of sharing research findings, fostering new collaborations, supporting each other to build academic careers, and making lifelong friendships. I have so many fun memories about CELA and am grateful to be called a CELA fellow."

Dr. Byoung-Suk Kweon is a Professor in the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Maryland. She has been a devoted landscape architecture educator since 1999 beginning at Texas A&M. Prior to her professorial roles, she was a designer in private practice and a research assistant and teaching assistant at the University of Illinois. Notably, Dr. Kweon was the first Korean-born female educator to accept a tenure-track teaching position in Landscape Architecture in the United States. She was also the first female Landscape Architect to be promoted to Full Professor at the University of Maryland, a program that is now 30 years old.

Dr. Kweon is a well-regarded scholar whose work focuses on the interactions between physical environments and people's well-being. She is widely published and with over 3,000 citations, she is one of the most frequently referenced landscape architecture professors in North America. Throughout her career, Dr. Kweon has actively contributed her time to support the CELA mission, including serving as the co-editor for Landscape Research Record for six years. She has also consistently served as a reviewer for and presenter at CELA's annual conference. Dr. Kweon's contributions have also been previously recognized by CELA including receipt of the Excellence in Service-Learning award in 2022, the Outstanding Communication Award in 2012, and a CELA national award of recognition in teaching, research, and service in 2007.