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Welcome (virtually) back ENVD students, from what was very likely a somewhat strange spring break. I hope this note finds all of you and your families healthy and doing well through this unprecedented event. I know that many of you are adjusting to the remote version of ENVD.

Environmental design student Ben Pesso was selected to continue his studio work with Mary Mattingly, the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Art Museum’s artist-in-residence, on a project in New York City.

Third-year environmental design students in Lecturer Susan Atkinson's architecture studio collaborated with Mary Mattingly, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder Artist-in-Residence, on the upcoming exhibition "Last Library: Reading Rooms, Bridges and tools for Integrating Ecological Ethics into Practice."

I hope that all of you had a chance to get some rest and enjoy some downtime over the break. As we welcome 2020, we are excited to celebrate the 50th anniversary of environmental design. We will be celebrating both the past and the future throughout this year. We will host special speakers, guest jurors and some surprises.

This year, Environmental Design celebrated homecoming 2019 by announcing it's first-ever Distinguished Alumni Award.

This fall, Instructor Emily Greenwood's senior landscape architecture studio is working with the City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department to design Violet Park in North Boulder.

Environmental Design Associate Professor Susannah Drake, founding principal of DLANDstudio is one of the five landscape architecture firms working to shape the future of the National Mall Tidal Basin.

Third-year students in Seth Wilberding's landscape architecture studio collaborated with award-winning, Brooklyn-based artist, Mary Mattingly on her upcoming project Swale II, a floating food forest installed on a barge that will be docked on the Harlem River in New York City.

On Thursday, September 26, 21 students were recognized at the Month of Modern ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Student Design Awards with eight different design awards.

On Wednesday, October 2, third-year students in environmental product design wrapped up their first project: designing an education-focused artifact for children in crisis zones.