Current News!

 

The 1st International Symposium on Rural Design was a success! Video from the symposium should be available later in 2010. Please check back here for more details after the symposium. For more information about the symposium, visit its web site.

 

Tracey Kinney, CRD Research Fellow, passes the American Institute of Certified Planners Exam.

 

Join CRD on October 8th, 5:30-7:30 for the opening of Dewey Thorbeck's Travel Sketches - An Architect's Recording of Natural and Human Landscapes. Showing from September 25 - December 27, 2009 at the Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library in Rapson Hall, University of Minnesota.

Map and directions: http://arch.lib.umn.edu/

 

CRD welcomes Nick Jordan, Ph.D. from the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, Kristen Nelson, Ph.D., Associate Professor from the Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, and Katey Pelican, DVM, Ph.D. from the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, as a new Faculty Research Fellows.

 

The Center was recently award a prestigious Minnesota Futures Symposium Grant to help fund the 1st International Symposium on Rural Design.

 

Dewey Thorbeck recently spoke via telephone to the Lobby Group of the National Association of Towns and Townships (NaTaT) at its meeting in Pennsylvania about rural design and its implications for rural America. Dewey conveyed that CRD feels that towns and townships may be the key political entity to nurture multi-jurisdictional collaboration and cooperation for mutual benefit based on regional resources and assets.

 

CRD's New Brochure

 

Dewey Thorbeck, CRD Director, and Stephen Streng, CRD Research Fellow, each received a Buckman Fellowship for Leadership in Philanthropy to work on the Consortium on Rural Design.

 

 

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