Adjunct faculty member Elizabeth Farnsworth announces New England Wild Flower Society’s Go Botany, a suite of new online tools for anyone interested in plants. Use Go Botany in the field or on your desktop computer to identify and learn about …
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Nationally recognized expert in sustainable design Carol Franklin of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will be the 2012 commencement speaker at the Conway School. A founding principal of Andropogon Associates and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, she has been …
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Kate Benisek ’09 (shown here at the Great Wall) has just returned from several weeks in China, where she made visits on behalf of the Conway School at Peking University’s College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and at Tsinghua University. In talks she described as …
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Applications for the 2012-13 David Bird International Service Fellowship are due April 15, 2012. This year applicants, who must be Conway graduates from 2007 or later or current students, will choose from three predetermined project destinations: Bali (Indonesia), Malaysia (shown in photo to right), …
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Associate Director Mollie Babize ‘84 and Wayne Castonguay, Agriculture Program Director for The Trustees of Reservations, will present a workshop at the 2012 Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference on “Farming for the Future: The role of land trusts in food security.” …
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The Ecological Landscape Association’s (ELA) annual conference and eco-marketplace, Coming Full Circle, takes place this Wednesday and Thursday, March 7 and 8, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Conway is a co-sponsor of the conference (along with the Association of Professional Landscape Designers), …
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Boston-based LandVest has appointed Conway alumna Jan Wirth ’11 as project manager for its new Energy and Environmental Assets Group. Wirth’s new position requires applying ecosystem services, carbon credits, species banking, mitigation credits, and related concepts to landscape-scale land conservation. …
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The Conway School and the University of Georgia are set to sign agreements that will allow Conway graduates advanced standing in two of Georgia’s graduate programs. “This is great news for Conway alums who are looking for additional graduate-level study in related …
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Bill McKibben, called in 2010 by the Boston Globe “probably the country’s most important environmentalist,” will be the keynote speaker at a celebration of the Conway School’s fortieth anniversary next fall. McKibben will lead off a weekend of special events that will start on …
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Conway alumna Jesse Froehlich ’08 of Fulton, California, will speak about her experiences in Bali, Indonesia, as a David Bird International Service Fellow. Her talk will be: March 5, 2012, 4:30-6 pm, at the Conway School, Conway, MA. RSVP Jesse worked …
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