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Professor Bressler was appointed Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture in 2006. He teaches the First-Year Fall MLA Design Studio along with Professor Art Rice, the Site Planning and Design studios with Kofi Boone and Andrew Fox, and serves as a member of the PhD faculty. Bressler devotes his efforts towards working with and mentoring the faculty and students on their scholarly and academic projects, courses, and careers. His major accomplishments include leading the undergraduate BLA and the graduate first professional MLA programs to successful re accreditation. He initiated and produces of the Department’s Lecture Series and the Mentor Program that pairs local practitioners with students. As department head, Bressler serves on the Dean’s Administrative Council and Steering Committee for the College’s Annual Urban Design Forum held each spring and on numerous committees within the College and University including theCampus Review Pane and the Provost’s Department Head Advisory Council. In Fall 2008, Gene was named by Chancellor Jim Oblinger to lead the State Employees Combined Campaign. Bressler also sits on the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects and has served on its annual professional awards jury for two years. In 2009, Governor Perdue appointed Bressler to the NC Board of Landscape Architects. His areas of research and teaching focus on urban growth, sustainable development, and the planning and design strategies for “Challenging Suburbia.” In June 2009, he co-authored with University of Colorado Professor Allan Wallis the chapter, “Oh Give Me Land, Lots of Land,” for the book Healing the West by Professor Patricia Limerick. In 2010 Vice Chancellor Leffler appointed Gene to co-represent NC State University on the Blue Ridge Road Planning Task Force. From 1997 to 2006, Bressler served as Chair of the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Colorado, Denver, College of Architecture and Planning. For several years, Gene co-taught an annual series of advanced interdisciplinary design studios with Architecture Professor Keith Loftin focused on challenging existing residential landscape and architectural design development paradigms. In 2003, he was named Director of the Colorado Center for Sustainable Urbanism and was responsible for producing the 2004 and 2005 “Colorado Tomorrow” public forum that focused on population and urban growth challenges facing the State. He was a founding member and president of the Colorado Community Design Network and consulting principal for the Denver-based firmsLandscape Strategies and Design Studios West. In addition, Gene chaired the College’s Information Technologies Committee charged with creating and implementing the College’s Interdisciplinary IT Strategic Plan that included the integration of computer aided design, visualization and modeling, and GIS technologies. Prior to his work at Colorado, Gene was on the faculty of the University of Oregon, Eugene, from 1971 to 1985. There, his teaching and research activities pioneered the development of computer driven suitability modeling technologies used to evaluate opportunities and constraints to development, infrastructural costs, environmental impacts, and alternative urban planning and design strategies. This led to his accepting a position from 1985 to 1995 with Dynamic Graphics, Inc., a developer of internationally recognized software used in numerous terrain and land use mapping, modeling, and visualization applications. In 2006, Bressler was recognized with the national award, Outstanding Administrator of the Year, from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) for his leadership and for his contributions to teaching. In 2007, he was awarded Fellow by the American Society of Landscape Architects. At the request of Dean Marvin Malecha, Gene delivered the Fall 2010 College of Design Commencement Address, “Game Changing One’s Way to the Main Thing.”