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2025 Olmsted Scholars Induction Ceremony

A grid of headshots of the 91 2025 LAF Olmsted Scholars

Join us for a virtual celebration to honor the 53 graduate and 38 undergraduate students named as 2025 LAF Olmsted Scholars. 

With its $25,000 graduate and $15,000 undergraduate prize, the LAF Olmsted Scholars Program is the premier leadership recognition program for landscape architecture students. Help us celebrate these rising leaders and welcome them to the community of 1,254 LAF Olmsted Scholars named since the program’s inception in 2008.

The ceremony will feature presentations from a past scholar and the two 2025 national winners:

  • Olive Tang, University of California, Davis, 2025 LAF National Olmsted Scholar (Undergraduate)
  • Issam Azzam, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2025 LAF National Olmsted Scholar (Graduate)

 

When

Friday, September 5
4:00-5:00 pm EDT

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Registration is required for this free online event. All are welcome to attend — academic departments can cheer on their school's scholar(s), landscape architecture students can learn more about this prestigious program, firms can scope out potential hires, and all can get a glimpse of the issues, ideas, and energy of the next generation of designers.

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Meet the 2025 LAF Olmsted Scholars

The LAF Olmsted Scholars Program honors students with exceptional leadership potential who are using ideas, influence, communication, service, and leadership to advance sustainable design and foster human and societal benefits.

Now in its 18th year, the program recognizes one outstanding student from each accredited landscape architecture program in the US and Canada, along with the jury-selected graduate and undergraduate national award winners and finalists. (The 2025 winners and finalists are shown here.)

The LAF Olmsted Scholars are recognized for past achievements and for their future potential to influence the landscape architecture discipline.

Headshots of the 2 LAF National Olmsted Scholar winners and 6 finalists

Thank you to our Olmsted Scholars Program sponsors!

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LAF is grateful to the many individuals and organizations that provide financial support towards fulfilling our mission to support the preservation, improvement, and enhancement of the environment.

Much of what LAF is able to accomplish would not be possible without the thought leadership and financial investment of our major supporters, including ASLA, which provides over $125,000 of in-kind support annually.

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