Kansas State announces End-of-Year Scholarships

Kansas State University students from Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning

MANHATTAN, Kans.—Kansas State University’s Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning recently gave the ASLA award to students demonstrating the highest level of academic scholarship and accomplishments in skills related to the art and technology of landscape architecture: Undergraduate Honor Awards, Karen Crockett, Kearney, NE; Wyatt Thompson, Garden City, KS; Undergraduate Merit Awards, Nathan Dunham, Arnold, MO; Andrew Gorham, Bellevue, NE; Jeffrey Stoecklein, Ness City, KS; Lisa Treese, Parkville, MO; Graduate Merit Awards, Seng Feng Kok, Malaysia; John Payne, Manhattan, KS.

The Outstanding Graduating Senior Award is given in recognition of academic performance and contributions to the department, program and peers: Karen Crockett. The Outstanding Fourth-Year Student Award is given in recognition of academic performance: Kyle Knecht, Kansas City, MO; Katie Martin, Perryville, MO. The Outstanding Graduate Student Award recognizes academic performance and contributions made to the department, program and peers: John Payne.

The L.R. Quinlan Award recognizes academic advancement in the study of landscape architecture: Erin Schnieders, Omaha, NE; Jeffrey Smith, Topeka, KS. The Dr. Robert P. Ealy Award for graduate students: Seng Feng Kok. The Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award: Erin Schnieders. The Leland R. Edmonds Planning Student Research Award: Danielle Zeigler, Natoma, KS. The American Institute of Certified Planners Student Award: Danielle Zeigler. Regional and Community Planning Faculty Awards for Excellence in Academic Achievement: Christina Rucker, Manhattan, KS; Shaik Shabbeer, India.

More News: Kansas State’s bachelor of interior architecture/interior design and bachelor of landscape architecture programs ranked third, our bachelor of architecture program ranked sixth, and our master of landscape architecture program ranked eighth in the 2005 version of an annual survey of leading firms in the United States. The survey is conducted by Design Intelligence and the Design Futures Council, in conjunction with the Almanac of Architecture and Design.