Andrew Bell

Andrew Bell, Ph.D. recently joined the Chicago Botanic Garden as the new Curator of Woody Plants. Dr. Bell will be responsible for managing 200,000 woody plants in a collection considered one of the best maintained and most beautifully displayed in the world. Dr. Bell will be involved with a $1 million redevelopment of the Dwarf Conifer Garden that is expected to be completed by the spring of 2009.

Adrianna Torres

ColeJenest & Stone, P.A. is pleased to announce the addition of Kory Hedrick and Adrianna Torres as civil designers I. Hedrick received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Bluefield State College. Torres received her Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from the University of Dayton in Ohio.

 

Micah Linker

ColeJenest & Stone also welcomes Micah Linker as a site designer. He received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from North Carolina State University. ColeJenest & Stone provides comprehensive land development services, specializing in land planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering and urban design.

Mike Sherman

National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) welcomes back Major Mike Sherman from a one-year assignment in the Middle East as part of his U.S. Army Reserve commitment. Sherman now serves as Special Assistant to the Executive Director, and previously worked as the Director of the Technology Development and Application Division.

NCPC also recently welcomed Athena Hernandez who joined the Office of Public Affairs as the agency?EUR??,,????'???s Communications Specialist. Hernandez has nearly 15 years of work experience in media and community relations.

Marcel Acosta

Marcel Acosta also joined NCPC as Acting Executive Director. Acosta is a leader in the planning profession with more than 20 years of experience in urban and transportation planning. He received a Loeb Fellowship from Harvard University?EUR??,,????'???s Graduate School of Design in 2001 and a Masters of Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Walter Bone

Belt Collins International Hong Kong LTD, a Honolulu based firm providing planning, civil engineering, landscape architecture and environmental consulting services, has announced the addition of Walter Bone, ASLA CLARB. Bone has joined the team as a Senior Landscape Architect in the Hong Kong office.

Bonnie Hatchcock

Humana Inc. recently announced that Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Bonnie C. Hathcock has been named HR Executive magazine?EUR??,,????'???s 2007 HR Executive of the Year. Humana Inc. is one of the nation?EUR??,,????'???s largest publicly traded health benefits companies and offers a diversified portfolio of health insurance products and related services. Hathcock has worked at Humana for eight years and among other achievements was responsible for the creation of MOCHA, Humana?EUR??,,????'???s internal benefit structure designed to offer More Options and Choices for Human Associates.

Architecture firm MSI recently announced the master plan and site design for the Westgate Myrtle Beach Resort & Spa in Orlando is completed. Plans for the oceanfront resort include a raised garden courtyard, ground-level zero-entry pool, streetscape promenade and tot-lot water element. MSI partnered with Morris Architects on the project that is being developed by Orlando based Westgate Resorts.

Matthew McGrath brings over seven years of experience to his new job as a Landscape Architect at the award-winning planning, urban design and landscape architecture firm, MSI. McGrath graduated Ohio University with a BA in political science and business administration. In 2001, he received his Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Ohio State University.

Randy Sorenson

Randy J. Sorenson Sr. brings nearly 40 years experience in the land surveying profession to the position of Survey Manager of the Phoenix office for CLC Associates, Inc., a national planning, entitlements, architecture, engineering, landscape architecture and land surveying firm.

Organizers of The 5th Annual International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions?EUR??,,????'??? (IAAPA) Charity Golf Tournament to benefit Kids The World Village were excited that it sold out in October. The Tournament will be held on November 11, 2007 at Mystic Dunes Gold Course in Celebration, Fla.

Hitchcock Design Group, a planning and landscape architecture firm, was recently named one of the nation?EUR??,,????'???s top 25 design and engineering firms to work for by the research and consulting firm ZweigWhite, in their annual ranking of top industry firms.