UO landscape architecture program graduates first doctoral student
Landscape Architecture has graduated its first doctoral student, Lanbin Ren – who had never heard of Oregon when she saw a poster advertising the UO’s brand-new Ph.D. program in the discipline.
Ren, a native of China, was about to graduate with a master of science in architecture from the University of Cincinnati, but wasn’t ready to leave academia.
“I wanted to learn something new but still related to architecture, and I thought landscape could be an option, so I applied,” Ren says.