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Landscape architecture firm MVVA gifts CCNY’s Spitzer School $30K for fellowship
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. (MVVA), a landscape architecture firm, gifted $30,000 to the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York for the establishment of The MVVA Fellowship Program for students in the Master of Landscape Architecture program.
The MVVA Fellowship seeks to support rising individuals in the field of landscape architecture who come from backgrounds that are currently and have been historically underrepresented in the field. The goal of this fellowship is to strengthen the pool of resources for emerging design professionals and to foster a more complete, better-rounded, and better-informed landscape architecture community.
Each year, one student entering their first year of the Spitzer School’s Master of Landscape Architecture program will be selected for the MVVA Fellowship. The recipient will receive an annual award of $5,000 for the duration of their three years in the program. Each recipient will be offered a summer internship at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. the summer before the third and final year of their education.
As a landscape architecture firm, MVVA has been committed to delivering meaningful spaces that shape and foster more healthy communities creating more livable cities through small gardens, large public parks, and regional master plans. Collaborating with leaders in various other fields has driven MVVA to design more ecological, resilient, and diverse green spaces creating additional habitat for local fauna and access to natural refuge to improve the lives of urban dwellers.
The Master of Landscape Architecture program at the Spitzer School prepares students to be leaders in the field of landscape architecture through innovative research and practice in urban ecological design, planning, and policymaking. The program aims to meet the profession’s current and future challenges through the lens of environmental justice, including globalization, availability of natural resources, land management, and climate change.
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