The Landscape Architecture Foundation celebrates 2023 undergrad and graduate Olmsted Scholars

The Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) has just announced two winners and six finalists for their 2023 Olmsted Scholars, a unique opportunity-granting program aimed at graduate and undergraduate students of landscape architecture across the United States. Now in its 16th consecutive year, the Olmsted Scholars program is meant to support students that demonstrate leadership potential and whose work equally communicates their abilities in “using ideas, influence, communication, service, and leadership to advance sustainable design and foster human and societal benefits.” The six graduate finalists will each receive $5,000 as part of the program, while undergraduate finalists receive $3,000. The LAF shares: “Two independent juries selected the winners and finalists from a group of 50 graduate and 38 undergraduate students nominated by their faculty for their exceptional leadership potential. These top students earned the designation of 2023 LAF Olmsted Scholar and join the community of 1,069 LAF Olmsted Scholars named since the program’s inception in 2008.” Respective jurors for this year’s cohort included Sasaki Principal Michael Grove, SWA’s Co-CEO Gerdo Aquino, and past American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) President Eugenia Martin. A short winners' biography and subsequent list of finalists can be viewed below.Read the full post on Bustler