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Sept. 4, 2002--Cindy Sobaski, a Longwood Graduate Fellow at the University of Delaware, was named the 2002 recipient of the Louise Roselle Fellowship in Public Horticulture. Established to honor Louise Roselle, wife of UD President David Roselle, the fellowship is granted each year to a rising second-year fellow with high academic standing, excellent research and demonstrated leadership potential.
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| Longwood Graduate Fellow Cindy Sobaski (left) is the 2002 recipient of the Louise Roselle Fellowship in Public Horticulture, which was established to honor Louise Roselle (right), wife of UD President David Roselle. |
A 2001 graduate of Iowa State University, Sobaski has a bachelor’s degree in ornamental horticulture and chose children’s gardens as the focus of her master’s thesis. Her research looks at how children perceive and respond to interactive features in children’s gardens.
Sobaski, who is conducting a case study at Michigan’s 4-H Children’s Garden in East Lansing, said she hopes her research will help professionals incorporate interactive elements in gardens in a style that reflects their own institutions and communities.
A Longwood Fellow since July 2001, Sobaski helped plan the 2002 Longwood Graduate Symposium. She serves as a member of Longwood’s Outdoor Children’s Garden Task Force and as a student representative to the public programs committee at the Morris Arboretum. Before entering the Longwood Program, Sobaski was a horticulture intern at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, an education intern at Callaway Gardens in Georgia and youth education coordinator for Reiman Gardens in Iowa.
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