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25 OCTOBER 2012
Auburn's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture awards David with the 2012 Outstanding Teaching Award.

07 JUNE 2012
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health celebrates the opening of its renovated space within the Historic Pabst Brewery Complex… the bulk of the festivities occur within the wooly terraces.

28 APRIL 2012
The 2012 Historic Perservation Award is bestowed on the 274 Bragg Avenue project by the Alabama Remodelers Association.

09 FEBRUARY 2012
The Alabama Chapter of AIA awards HILLWORKS' 274 Bragg Avenue project with a 2012 AIA Alabama Design Award of Merit.

28 JANUARY 2012
The 274 Bragg Avenue project is featured in the January/February issue of Society South Magazine.

07 DECEMBER 2011
HILLWORKS' adaptive reuse project, 274 Bragg Avenue, receives a 2011 AIA Montgomery Design Award of Merit.

02 NOVEMBER 2011
David joins Julie Bargmann, Jen Trompetter, and Marni Burns [aka the D.I.R.T.girls] in San Diego to present D.I.R.T studio in the 'Inside the LA Studio' series at the National ASLA Conference.

28 JUNE 2011
Design team comprised of BLDGS architects, HILLWORKS, and Fisher Dachs are selected for the Ferst Center for the Arts Renovation Project at Georgia Tech.

30 MARCH 2011
Participating in the TransAtlantic Climate Bridge, David travels to Berlin, Dessau, and Hamburg Germany to meet with federal environmental agencies related to energy and climate change and to study regenerative landscapes, including several biogas facilities.

16 DECEMBER 2010
In partnership with landscape architecture professors Michael Robinson and David Hill at Auburn University, the Town of Section, Alabama receives a $50,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission to research and develop a plan for sustainable growth.

14 OCTOBER 2010
David Hill [Landscape Architecture], Oladiron Fasina [Biosystems Engineering], and Amy Campion [English] are selected as faculty winners in the TransAtlantic Climate Bridge competition sponsored by the Auburn University Office of International Education and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

16 JUNE 2010
"The 'Projects' Project," an Auburn University Masters of Landscape Architecture Design Studio led by David, is selected as a OnePrize Award semi-finalist in TerreformONE's "Mowing to Growing: Reinventing the American Lawn" competition.

14 MAY 2010
David presents a paper titled "Potency of Planted Form:  Exposing the Phenology of a Place" at the ISOMUL/CELA Annual Conference in Maastricht, Netherlands.

12 APRIL 2010
Auburn University Student Government Association awards David with the Outstanding Faculty Award within the CADC.

24 MARCH 2010
David serves as a jury member for the 2010 CELA Awards.

02 NOVEMBER 2009
David receives a CADC research grant to fund the Phenology Project and inaugurates the landscape performance LAB.