Schnadelbach and Obonyo win DCP International Educator awards

November 19, 2008
The University of Florida International Center awarded landscape architecture professor Terry Schnadelbach and building construction assistant professor Esther Obonyo the 2008 International Educator Award for the College of Design, Construction and Planning for senior and junior faculty, respectively.

Schnadelbach has helped lead efforts to internationalize the Department of Landscape Architecture’s curriculum. He initiated and continues to teach semesters at the Paris Research Center, a program open to all bachelors and graduate students. Schnadelbach has donated his European collection – more 300 books – to the PRC and has generated numerous papers on historical and contemporary French landscapes. Additionally, Schnadelbach has received annual grants from the Florence Gould Foundation to support an evening lecture series and has undertaken in his design studio several design projects of service to Parisian institutions.

During the three years that Obonyo has been at the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction, she has secured both UF and National Science Foundation funding for international research and educational activities. She also has published and presented to international audiences, with her research interests ranging across construction informatics, sustainable building technologies and globalization of construction engineering education. In each of these areas, she has collaborated with leading professionals in the built environment to further scientific advances.