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Landscape and Human Health History In 1993, Frances Kuo founded the Human-Environment Research Laboratory (HERL) with William Sullivan to study the relationship between people and the physical environment. Andrea Faber Taylor, a past HERL graduate student and current post-doctoral scholar, became a co-director of HERL with Drs. Kuo and Sullivan in 2004. Dr. Kuo’s body of HERL research firmly established the importance of trees and greenspace to stronger, safer communities and robust concentration, self-control, and coping in individuals. In 2006, Frances Kuo founded the Landscape and Human Health Laboratory (LHHL) to focus on this relationship between human health and greenspace. She would like to thank past undergraduates, graduate students, and post-docs who have worked with her in the former HERL.
The Human Health and Landscape Laboratory is committed to using an interdisciplinary approach. Scientific questions do not fall neatly in the realm of a single discipline, and the solutions to the problems explored at the Human Health and Landscape Laboratory must satisfy the constraints of both human nature and the physical environment. As a result, we attempt to involve researchers from different disciplines in every research project. Both directors have interdisciplinary backgrounds. Dr. Kuo has advanced degrees in both cognitive and environmental psychology. Dr Faber Taylor’s academic background includes both study of horticulture and children’s behavior and environments. Future collaborations will include faculty in the departments of both kinesiology and leisure studies, as well as forestry practitioners.
Director: Current members: Emma Bruehlman-Senecal - Graduate Student - natural resources and environmental science Hongxia Fan - Graduate Student - human resources and industrial relations Bryce Harrop - Lab Assistant - mathematics Sara Lily Ann Miller - natural resources and environmental science Amy Ritter - Graduate Student - natural resources and environmental science Libby Vassmer - Lab Assistant- political science and east asian languages and cultures Serena Wang - Lab Assistant - molecular and cellular biology and psychology Johanna Weber - Research Specialist - natural resources and environmental science
Frances Kuo and Andrea Faber Taylor would like to thank past undergraduate students, graduate students, and others who have worked with them in the former "Human Environment Research Lab.” Graduate Students: Vishal Bhargava - urban planning Liesette Brunson - psychology Steve DePooter - landscape architecture Irene Miles - natural resources and environmental science Mona Prabhu - landscape architecture Undergraduates: Joshua Birky - natural resources and environmental science Meghan Campbell - psychology Todd Crummy - psychology Lindsey Hammond - psychology Danielle Keen - Lab Assistant - english and spanish Jennifer Morthland - social work John Potter – psychology Christian Taylor - animal science Julie Zielinski - architectural studies Others: |
