Education
BSLA, Iowa State University, 1980

Research Interests
Community engagement and service-learning; Community impacts of service-learning and community engagement activities; therapeutic gardens; Elder-friendly community design; labyrinths and other meditative and spiritual places.

Current Projects
Coordinating PLaCE program for the College of Design; Administering Program Builder website,  Community and Economic Development Extension and Outreach

Contact Information
Phone: (515) 294-1790
Email: susaneri@iastate.edu
Office: 326 Design

Mailing Address
IDRO
126 College of Design
Ames, IA, 50011

• Therapeutic Garden Design: A Case Study, 10/06/2009
• Project-Based Outreach Yields Success for Academia, Extension, and Communities, 10/05/2010
• Emerging Engagement Scholarship Workshop, 10/02/2010
• Assessing Impacts of Engagement Practices: Factors of Scale, 10/03/2011
• Restorative Spaces/Healing Places: How to turn Landscapes into Healing Gardens, 10/31/2011
• Extension Staff as Boundary Spanners: Creating Bridges between University and Community, 03/07/2011
• Reaching out and Reaching In: Investigating Community Impacts of a university outreach program, 04/30/2011
• Community Engagement and Service Learning, 05/04/2011
• Maximizing the Potential of the Landscape at Residential Facilities for the Aging, 05/05/2011