Don Hamer

Landscape architecture faculty lead service-learning project in Africa

For the past six weeks, 11 Penn State students and two faculty members have been working, studying and conducting research in Tanzania as part of a study abroad and service-learning initiative established by the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The interdisciplinary program, developed by Brian Orland, professor of landscape architecture, and Larry Gorenflo, associate professor of landscape architecture, has taken students to the most remote parts of the East African country, where they are addressing issues of population growth versus environmental conservation. (more)