Source: Dan Donelin, 785-532-5961, dandon@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Diane Potts, 785-532-1090, potts@k-state.edu
Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007
CHIP WINSLOW NAMED TO K-STATE'S JARVIS CHAIR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
MANHATTAN -- Professor William "Chip" Winslow has been selected as the 2007-2008 Jarvis Chair of Landscape Architecture in the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design.
According to Dan Donelin, professor and head of K-State's department of landscape architecture and regional and community planning, this is the third year the $10,000 annual stipend has been awarded to a faculty member.
"Tenured faculty members applied for the award by submitting a portfolio that included a syllabus for a course taught during the fall or spring semester of the previous year, the instructor's student evaluation summary for the course being submitted, evidence of scholarship and a statement as to his/her scholarly contributions to landscape architecture during the previous year," Donelin said.
"The award recipient is selected by a blind jury composed of two faculty members from another nationally accredited landscape architecture program and a faculty member from a non-design background," Donelin said.
Winslow has been a faculty member at K-State for 25 years. His teaching emphases include landscape construction, planting design, plant materials, site planning and golf course design. During the past three years, Winslow has directed his students in undertaking varied projects such as development of a master plan for K-State's Ahearn Field House-Natatorium complex and Memorial Stadium area for the K-State Division of Facilities; development of a master plan and design details for City Park in Clearwater, Kan.; development of a master plan and design details for the K-State Formal Garden; development of a master plan and design details for an abandoned railway corridor through downtown Marysville, Kan.; development of a master plan and design details for the rooftop garden at a downtown Kansas City, Mo., library; and development of master plans and design details for the I-70 corridor through downtown Topeka, Kan. The Marysville project received an honor award from Main Street USA.
For the past 13 years, Winslow has been involved with the Kansas Board of Technical Professions and the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards. He has been chair of the Kansas board and president of the council, serving the public as an advocate of the profession of landscape architecture. He continues to serve the council, most recently by membership on the continuing education and nomination committees.
A licensed professional landscape architect and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Winslow received a bachelor of landscape architecture from K-State in 1980 and a master of landscape architecture in 1982 from the University of Michigan.
The Jarvis Chair of Landscape Architecture is funded through a bequeathed endowment established by Mary K. Jarvis, a 1942 graduate who is thought to be the first female to receive a landscape architecture degree from K-State. Interest from the endowment is matched by the state's Kansas Faculty of Distinction program and is used to recognize faculty who, in the previous year, made significant contributions in their teaching, scholarship and/or service.