• Sadik C. Artunc, FASLA, has been teaching in the School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University since 1981. Sadik has dedicated his academic career to educating students in innovative, humanistic, and environmentally sensitive planning, design, and implementation and to serving as a passionate advocate for the profession and ASLA. With the highest standards of professional ethics, he has been a highly successful and very consistent role model for his students and colleagues.
  
  A native of Turkey, Sadik has a BS and MS in forestry and forest engineering from the University of Istanbul and an MLA from the University of Michigan. He is a registered landscape architect in Louisiana and a registered forester and forest engineer in Turkey. His professional consulting involves large-scale planning and design with a focus mostly on recreation and tourism, resource planning, and conservation. He has worked on projects in the United States, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Turkey. Prior to arriving in the United States in 1975, he worked in Turkey as a forester for the Ministry of Forestry, as a recreation planner in the Central Planning Office, and as the planning director of the Olympus National Park for the Department of National Parks.
  
  Ann Marie Artunc, Sadik’s wife and partner in life, has been a strong supporter of his ASLA activities and dedicated involvement. As a result, Sadik has been an active member of ASLA since 1981. Always a tireless and enthusiastic promoter of the profession of landscape architecture and ASLA, Sadik served at various capacities and levels: the Louisiana Chapter president (1991); chapter trustee (1996–2001); and finally as the national vice-president of membership (2002–2004), during which time ASLA membership had a tremendous growth in numbers. Sadik was inducted into the ASLA Council of Fellows in 2000.
  
  His teaching, scholarly, and professional activities through ASLA, CELA, CLARB, and LAAB have greatly contributed to an increased visibility and awareness of the profession. He has over one hundred publications to his credit in refereed journals, proceedings of professional conferences, national registration exams, magazines, and book chapters. He has received seventeen academic and professional awards from his students, his colleagues, and his peers.
  
   

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