Landscape Architecture Foundation - Olmsted Scholar Program

The Landscape Architecture Foundation created an award program titled Olmsted Scholar. Schools are able to nominate one graduate student and one undergraduate student as a University Olmsted Scholar and compete for the National Olmsted Scholar Award. This year I was privileged to be nominated as the graduate student at the University of Massachusetts. This post is not about me though, as I was not selected as the National Olmsted Scholar or finalists. The undergraduate selected from UMass, Eliza Rodrigs, was one of the finalists with her studies concentrating on food deserts and urban agriculture. Although I was sad I did not win, it was exciting that a finalist came from UMass.