Learning by Leading

Learning by Leading

We believe that students learn best by leading. In this innovative environmental restoration and education program, leadership skills and real-world experience combine to help our students address the earth’s most important environmental issues. The Learning by Leading™ internship program offers quarter-long and school year-long internships in which students work in a team to solve real-world problems in the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden. 

Composite of two images. On the left a dry landscape with grass and tall dried plants. On the right, three student interns stand among green grasses and flowering plants.

Restoration transforms old north channel of Putah Creek

  • by Scout Mata

Less than half a mile from the recently revitalized west end of the Arboretum Waterway, the dry north channel of Putah Creek is experiencing its own metamorphosis. Here, Arboretum and Public Garden Senior Environmental Steward Miles DaPrato and Learning by Leading™ Ecological Land Management interns are engaged in a years-long habitat restoration effort. 

Group of six accreditation team members standing outdoors near a building, with two students, Dyanna Perez and Amelia Swanson, explaining something to the group in front of a modern, green-accented building.

Landscape Architecture Accreditation Team Visits UC Davis

  • by Chiara Zavala

On April 15, the UC Davis Department of Human Ecology hosted a site visit from the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board as part of the re-accreditation process for the university’s Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture program. While accreditation visits are a formal step in maintaining program standards, this one also served as a celebration of student creativity, collaboration, and sustainability in action.

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