Genius Loci: Tillerman Coffee Company Tillerman Coffee Company is located at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Park (1341 Research Center Drive) and is one of my favorite places to get away and write. I like it because it’s a neutral space for me to go and work with good lighting, open floor plan, and delicious treats regardless…
Category: Landscape Architecture
“The Blog” as a living, breathing, evolving body of work
The featured image is of saucer magnolias blossoming in front of Burruss Hall. Like these blossoms that are finally coming into their season, we graduate students are future faculty and we are beginning to come into our own as well. I’ve been thinking a lot about what the role of a blog is to academia….
Time to Put a Bow on it
Since my arrival at Tech, I have experienced more learning and exposure to new ideas than perhaps I have in my entire education to date. I came here primarily for two reasons: the first, because I was interested the Landscape Architecture program because I could pursue an Architecture & Design Research PhD (1 of 5…
Jigsaw-Zigsaw: An Adventure for Every GEDI
This week, we learned a different approach for teaching and learning in the classroom. This blog entry is the story of that experience. Two weeks ago at the end of class, each student was given a number which corresponded to a short reading assignment, and we were all told to return to class last week…
On Diversity & Inclusive Pedagogy, Academia could do better
In this post, I wanted to make a brief comment on diversity in general, discuss diversity in higher education, and then I have a few thoughts on diversity in professional offices. I’ll conclude by talking about inclusive pedagogy. It goes hand-in-hand with creating a community environment and appreciating the opportunity for innovative thinking. Image Credit: jlrsousa’s…
Three Minute Thesis [What role do green roofs play in biodiversity?]
The following is the transcript from my speech at Mississippi State University‘s Three Minute Thesis competition. I’m sharing for two reasons: 1) it was a fun activity that I would like to do again for a chance at redemption (that’s a story for another day…) and 2) I wanted to share my research because that’s what doing research…
