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George Curry, RLA, Carnegie Foundation's N.Y. Professor of the Year12-03-08 | News

George Curry, RLA, Carnegie Foundation’s N.Y. Professor of the Year

Prof. George Curry, RLA, is the Kennedy distinguished faculty chair in landscape architecture at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracus

Prof. George Curry of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) in Syracuse, N.Y. was named 2008 New York Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Prof. Curry was selected from nearly 300 top U.S. professors. He joined other honorees at an awards luncheon in Washington, D.C., Nov. 20, 2008.

In 2007 he was named Landscape Architecture Educator of the Year by DesignIntelligence magazine.

Prof. Curry, a licensed landscape architect with a specialty in urban design and historic preservation, has more than 30 years of teaching and inspiring students at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Prof. Curry helped develop ESF’s off-campus program that requires each landscape architecture student to spend a semester working in the field on a design project they propose and develop.

Mr. Curry has been instrumental in revitalizing a number of neighborhoods, including Syracuse’s Armory Square, listed in the National Register of Historic Places. He received a 1999 ASLA Merit award in research for a cultural landscape report on FDR’s home (the Springwood estate in Hyde Park), which was deeded to the National Park Service www.nps.gov/hofr after FDR’s death and is a National Historic Site.

“The job of teaching has been a wonderful way to spend my life and to be honored for that is quite exceptional,” said Prof. Curry.

“Teaching is George’s passion. His commitment to ESF, the students and the program is inspirational to the faculty,” added Richard Hawks, chair of ESF’s landscape architecture program.