{"id":64354,"date":"2009-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-executive-landscape-architect-to-speak-at-uri-lecture-series-feb-12\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T00:00:00","slug":"uri-executive-landscape-architect-to-speak-at-uri-lecture-series-feb-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/02\/uri-executive-landscape-architect-to-speak-at-uri-lecture-series-feb-12\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 executive, landscape architect to speak at 溏心vlog免费B站 lecture series, Feb. 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 5, 2009 \u2013 Robert Weygand, vice president for administration and finance at the 溏心vlog免费B站 and a former landscape architect, will discuss leadership and responsibility of design professionals as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Landscape Architecture Lecture Series on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe event, entitled \u201c The Leadership Landscape,\u201d will be held in Weaver Auditorium at the Coastal Institute on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston campus and is free and open to the public. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cThe role of landscape architects has traditionally been relegated to the position of secondary designers or a minor part of the &#8216;design team&#8217;. This should not be the case. Landscape architects have a very unique education and valuable talents to lead in areas of design, economic development, sustainability and the overall quality of life issues so prominent in today&#8217;s society,\u201d said Weygand. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe former U.S. congressman and Rhode Island lieutenant governor is a landscape architect by training and the former owner of an architectural firm.  Weygand is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the national chair of the Council of Fellows (2004  and 2005), and an adjunct associate professor in landscape architecture at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe next speakers in the lecture series are Shavaun Towers, principal for Towers \/ Golde LLC., who will discuss \u201cAt the Edge: The Creative Interface between Preservation, Sustainability, and Institutional Culture on University Campuses,\u201d on March 5; and Pamela and James Shadley of Shadley Associates speaking on \u201cBrownfields: On the Edge of Historic Abuse and Future Public Use,\u201d on April 2. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Landscape Architecture series is co-sponsored by the College of Environment and Life Sciences, the Rhode Island chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association. For more information about the series, contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Community Planning and Landscape Architecture at 874-4549 or Professor Angelo Simeoni at aes@uri.edu.  <\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 5, 2009 \u2013 Robert Weygand, vice president for administration and finance at the 溏心vlog免费B站 and a former landscape architect, will discuss leadership and responsibility of design professionals as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Landscape Architecture Lecture Series on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. &#13; The event, entitled \u201c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}