Rogers receives UT’s Faculty Environmental Leadership Award
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Sam Rogers, ASLA, an Associate Professor in Plant Sciences in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture is this year’s recipient of UT’s Faculty Environmental Leadership Award. Rogers is a native of Polk County.
Sam Rogers, ASLA, an Associate Professor in Plant Sciences
in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the University
of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture is this year’s recipient of UT’s Faculty
Environmental Leadership Award. Rogers is a native of Polk County.
Each year, the Committee on the Campus Environment
recognizes one faculty member, student, and staff who show a strong commitment
to environmental leadership and stewardship. The criteria include education,
peer outreach and/or individual actions.
“I was pleasantly surprised to win this award,” Rogers
says. “It’s special to be recognized along with a lot of other campus
environmental leaders like Professors Mike McKinney and John Nolt, whom I’ve
respected for years. They’ve inspired me.”
Rogers teaches undergraduate courses in landscape
designative plants in the landscape, and a graduate studio in landscape
architecture He’s also well known for his many outreach collaborations with Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Natural
Resources Conservation Service, just to name a few, including efforts in Polk
County.
“Green” is a term that truly defines Rogers, a Registered
Landscape Architect for many years, he has actively worked on advocating urban
greenways especially in Chattanooga and Knoxville. He now leads classes in
‘service learning’ activities featuring stream buffers, meadows, and woodland
restoration projects. In addition, Rogers actively shares his knowledge of
sustainability with various groups and schools in the area. “Sustainability is
all about the future,” he says. “It doesn’t mean things take care of themselves
in terms of landscape, but that our present actions or inactions do not
compromise the future.”
Currently, Rogers is coordinating the development of the
UT Native American Interpretive Garden, which was first begun over 30 years ago
on the Ag Campus adjacent to the historic Indian Mound. “It will be
significantly expanded collection of native plants that will also interpret the
cultural significance of the site and various traditional plant uses by Native
Americans ,” says Rogers.
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Natural Resources, the UT College of Veterinary Medicine, UT AgResearch,
including its system of 10 research and education centers, and UT Extension
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