UMass Team Shines at NCLC
Mike Davidsohn, MCLP reports that the UMass National Collegiate Landscape Competition( NCLC) Team performed well at this year’ s event at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. The UMass team was made up of students from Landscape Contracting, Arboriculture, Urban Forestry, Landscape
Architecture, and Horticultural Science. The UMass Team placed 20th out of 54 Colleges and Universities with more than 725 students participating.
MAA donated to help cover the UMass Team’ s NCLC expenses.“ Your generosity allowed our students to apply and test their knowledge and skills in a series of landscape design, build, operations, and identification events – showing how strong their education is against other students,” said Mike.“ Thank you for your support!”
New CAFE Directors Named
Lynne McLandsborough has been named director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’ s Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment( CAFE) and will also serve as assistant vice chancellor for research and engagement. She brings to her new roles 30 years of experience at UMass Amherst, where she bridged the academic and applied sciences and gained deep expertise in working with the commonwealth’ s UMass Extension program, which reaches into every corner of agricultural life in Massachusetts.
“ Extension is essential for the commonwealth,” says Mc- Landsborough.“ It’ s a mechanism to translate modern science-backed information to support our constituents in areas such as environmental conservation, nutrition education, fruits and vegetables production or turf management. Our educators build relationships with our constituents, identify needs and we determine how we can meet them, both through Extension education and funding applied research on campus.”
It’ s the funding angle that McLandsborough will be addressing as assistant vice chancellor for research and engagement.“ CAFE provides grant support to over 75 laboratories at UMass Amherst in the areas of agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry,” she says.
UMass Research at Millborn
Huge thanks to the arborists who came out to support Brian Kane’ s tree risk assessment research at Millborn Farm on Saturday, April 5, 2025. We collected lots of data- but also had a chance to forge new connections in our tree care community. You can read Dr Kane ' s research results on MassArbor. org.
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