Kim Wilson has been a member of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty since 2009 and held appointments as a program director and interim dean in the College of Architecture. Prior to Nebraska, Professor Wilson held landscape architecture positions at Purdue and Colorado State. Prior to joining academia, Wilson worked for more than 25 years for nationally and internationally recognized firms including Sasaki Associates, JJR-Smith Group and Pollack Design Associates. Her professional experience focused on site design and planning for urban waterfronts, light rail transit corridors, large land holdings and parks, and open spaces. Wilson's work has been nationally recognized in eleven design awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects. Professor Wilson’s current role as special assistant to the Dean, College of Engineering, is to manage more than $200 million of capital improvement projects, making decisions impacting design and budget, on behalf of the Dean and the college community.