K-State College of Architecture, Planning and Design selects Jarvis Chairs

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

K-STATE COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND DESIGN SELECTS JARVIS CHAIRS

MANHATTAN -- Dennis Day and Timothy Keane have been named this year's Jarvis Chairs of Landscape Architecture at Kansas State University's College of Architecture, Planning and Design.

Dan Donelin, head of the department of landscape architecture and regional and community planning, said this is the second year for the $10,000 annual stipend to be awarded to faculty members who, in the previous academic year, made significant contributions in teaching, scholarship or service.

Faculty members applied by submitting a portfolio that included a syllabus for a course from the previous academic year, their student evaluation summary for that course, evidence of scholarship, and a statement about their contributions to landscape architecture during the previous academic year, Donelin said.

A blind jury of two faculty members from another nationally accredited landscape architecture program and a faculty member from a non-design background then selected the award recipients.

Day, a professor of landscape architecture, has taught at K-State for 40 years. His teaching emphasis is construction methods, applications and documentation in landscape architecture. His current research focuses on storm-water management in the Midwest.

Keane, an associate professor of landscape architecture, has been with K-State since 1984. He teaches natural systems and site analysis as well as a course on fluvial geomorphology. For the past 10 years he has taught in natural resources and environmental sciences, a secondary major program. Recently he has been involved in the landscape architecture capstone design course. His research deals with stream morphology and urban storm water, and in the past two years he has been a part of teams that have brought more than $1.5 million of funded research to K-State.

The Jarvis Chair of Landscape Architecture is financed through a bequeathed endowment established by Mary K. Jarvis, a 1942 K-State graduate thought to be the first woman to receive a landscape architecture degree from the university. Interest from the endowment is matched by the state of Kansas Faculty of Distinction program.