Day and Kearne Selected as Jarvis Chairs of Landscape Architecture

Professors Dennis Day and Timothy Keane were selected as the 2006-2007 Jarvis Chairs of Landscape Architecture in the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design.

According to Dan Donelin, professor and head of the Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning, this is the second year the $10,000 annual stipend has been awarded to each faculty.

Donelin said, “Faculty 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 contributions to landscape architecture during the previous year.”

“The award recipients were selected by a blind jury composed of two faculty from another nationally accredited landscape architecture program and a faculty member from a non-design background,” Donelin said.

Professor Day has been a faculty member at K-State for 40 years. His teaching emphasis is construction methods, applications and documentation in landscape architecture with current research focusing on storm water management applications in the Midwest region.

Associate Professor Timothy Keane has been a faculty member at K-State since 1984. He teaches Natural Systems and Site Analysis (an applied landscape ecology course) as well as a course on fluvial geomorphology. For the past ten years he has taught in the Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences secondary major program. Recently, he has been involved in the Landscape Architecture Capstone Design course. His research deals with stream morphology and urban stormwater BMP’s, and in the past two years he has been a part of teams that have brought over $1.5 million of funded research to K-State.

The Jarvis Chair of Landscape Architecture is funded through a bequested 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 of 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.

For more information, contact:
Dan Donelin, 785.532.5961
Diane Potts, 785.532.1090