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Gene Bressler, ASLA, has been named chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture in North Carolina State University's College of Design. His appointment becomes effective Aug. 1.

Since 1997, Bressler has served as chair of the landscape architecture department at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, College of Architecture and Planning. In 2003, he was named director of the Colorado Center for Sustainable Urbanism. He was also a consulting principal for the Denver-based firms Landscape Strategies and
Design Studios West. Prior to moving to Colorado, Bressler was a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon and a partner in the firm Diethelm and Bressler Inc.

In 2006, Bressler was recognized with a national award from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture for his leadership and for his contributions to teaching. His areas of research and teaching focus on urban growth, sustainable development, and the planning and design strategies for "challenging suburbia." He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Bressler received his bachelor's degree from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse University, and his master's in landscape architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Ken Dockman, ASLA, has been inducted into the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects College of Fellows. Dockman received an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from Montana State University and practices in Regina, Saskatchewan, where he is the landscape architect for the Wascana Center, a 930-hectare area surrounding Wascana Lake in the city of Regina. The area includes six public parks.

Edward Pinckney/Associates Ltd., is pleased to announce the hiring of Nathan E. Bragg, ASLA. Bragg, a graduate of the University of Georgia, comes to the firm with more than eight years of professional experience. Having worked for a landscape architectural firm and most recently with a regionally known engineering firm in Macon, Georgia, he possesses a strong engineering background and is well versed in stormwater design, Best Management Practices, and site grading issues.

J.K. Tiller Associates Inc. of Bluffton, South Carolina, is pleased to announce that Khristine Fullante, Student ASLA, has been added to its design team. Fullante is a senior at Clemson University’s Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture. Originally from Goose Creek, South Carolina, she joined the Tiller team this summer as a college intern. Her experience includes employment at Cascade Design Group Inc. of Atlanta and Clemson University’s Campus Planning department. She also has experience in Clemson’s International Center for Automotive Research design in collaboration with Kurt Culbertson, FASLA, of Design Workshop and has studied abroad in Greece and Turkey. Fullante is also the secretary for the Clemson Chapter of ASLA, a founding member of Students for New Urbanism, a recipient of the Harry S. Frampton Minority Scholarship, an ASLA Honor Award recipient for excellence in the study of landscape architecture, and a member of Sigma Lambda Alpha National Honor Society of Landscape Architects. Her responsibilities at J.K. Tiller Associates Inc. include site design, cost estimates, revisions to working drawings, rendering, and planting design. Her projects included residential community planning, commercial site design, institutional site design, streetscape, and planting design. She will complete her education at Clemson in December 2006.