The Department of Landscape Architecture in the College of Arts and Architecture's Stuckeman School at Penn State recently announced Nina-Marie Lister as the 2024-25 John R. Bracken Fellowship recipient.

 

Lister is a professor at the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is a registered professional planner and was awarded the Margolese National Design for Living Prize by the University of British Columbia's School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture for her ecological design work.

"I'm deeply honored and grateful to receive this special recognition of my work and its impact from Penn State University and the Stuckemann school of landscape architecture." Lister told LASN, "The Bracken Fellowship is a prestigious honor and many of the previous recipients an inspiration in my career (some of them mentors) so it's particularly meaningful to me to be named among them. My work is not merely a job, but an avocation, and I'm deeply grateful to share it with the incredible team in my Ecological Design Lab-both past and present-who continue to inspire me in our shared commitment to biodiversity recovery and climate resilience."

The fellowship honors Landscape Architecture professor and department head from 1924 to 1957, John R. Bracken. The department sponsors the award which began in spring of 1982 after his estate created an endowment. Part of the fellowship is delivering a keynote lecture which will be held on March 3 during the Stukeman School's 2025 Research Symposium.