Biography

Prior Professional Affiliations

• Registered Landscape Architect, Province of Ontario, with stamp

• Registered Professional Planner, Ontario Professional Planners Institute, with seal

• Full Member, Ontario Association of Landscape Architects

• Full Member, Canadian Institute of Planners

• International Full Member, Canadian Institute of Planners

• Society for Ecological Restoration

• Constructed Environment Research Network

• International Association of Community Development 

Fellowships, Appointments, Commissions

• Academy Professor, inducted by the Penn State Emeritus Academy, Oct. 2025–current

• Distinguished Professor Emeritus status granted by PSU president, July 2024–current

• Commissioner, University Park Tree Commission, PSU, 2012–2024

• Distinguished Honors Faculty, Schreyer Honors College, Penn State  University, 2021–2023

• University Faculty Scholar Medalist Review Panel, 2022–2023

• Arts & Architecture Distinguished Professor Nominating Committee, 2022

• Evan Pugh University Professorship Committee, 2019–2022

• Lead author, departmental Diversity, Equity and Inclusion draft statement, 2020

• Commissioner, State College Borough Tree Commission, 2005–2016

• Astorino Fellow - sabbatical, L. Astorino Endowment, Penn State University, 2014–2015

• Executive Committee member, Collaborative Design Research, Stuckeman School, Penn State University, 2014–2015

• Engaged Scholarship Pioneer, Penn State Engagement Scholarship Council, 2013–2014. 

• Faculty Council member, College of Arts & Architecture; lead author on Preamble and Article 1 (Legislative, Advisory & Consultative, and Forensic Roles) of the Constitution of the College Faculty, 2011–2013

• Fine Outreach for Science Returning Fellow, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010–2013

• Public Scholarship Fellow, Provost appointment, Penn State University, 2011–2012

• Fine Outreach for Science Fellow, Global Connections Project, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009–2010

• Visiting Scholar Readership (brief sabbatical), Ross Library at the American Academy in Rome, Spring 2008

• Executive Board member, Center for Watershed Stewardship, Penn State University, 2003–2007

• Program Committee member, Inter-College Graduate Ecology Program, Penn State University, 1999–2006

• Heinz Faculty Fellow, Center for Watershed Stewardship, Penn State University, 1999–2000; 2002

• Research Fellow: Nine Mile Run, Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997–1999

• Commissioner, City of Burlington Sustainable Development Commission, 1988–1991

• CMHC Graduate Fellow, Queen's University, 1984–1986

Allied Organizations

• STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University

• Penn State's Center for Watershed Stewardship

• Penn State's Inter-college Graduate Program in Ecology

• Design of Learning, Collaboration and Experience Lab (dolcelab), PSU, NYU, UB

• Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment Lab (CREATE Lab), Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

• Franco Harris Pittsburgh Center at Penn State

• State College Borough and Penn State Tree Commissions

• The Arboretum at Penn State

• ClearWater Conservancy 

• Penn State's Alliance for Education, Science, Engineering, and Design with Africa (AESEDA)

• Akademie für internationale Bildung (AiB), Bonn, Germany

• Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan, Almora, India

• Barcelona Architecture Center ( BAC), Barcelona, Spain

• Sede di Roma, Rome, Italy

• colleagues at Queen's University (CA), York University (CA), University of Rio de Janeiro, Wageningen University, University of Ghana, University of Dar es Salaam, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Carnegie Mellon University, Universities of Oregon and Florida, among others.