Elizabeth Meyer is a member of the Faculty Research Council at the Contemplative Sciences Center. She is the Merrill D. Peterson Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia. Continuing with her involvement in the UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes (CCL), which she founded in 2015., Meyer is also faculty director of the Morven Sustainability Lab, a place-based, pan-university teaching and research endeavor located on 2900 acres of rural Piedmont land located ten miles from the UVA Grounds. MSL’s mission is three-fold: to support future-oriented teaching and research that recognize the complexities of the climate crisis will require new narratives, policies, ethics  and practices; to afford our students—the generation that will need to imagine, co-create and implement these changes—meaningful nature-connection experiences impactful enough to bolster their personal well-being and to alter their sense of care and belonging to our home, the Virginia Piedmont and the planet Earth; and to recognize that Morven’s ecological benefits and aesthetic beauty, its fecundity and value, was co-curated, cared for and maintained by the Indigenous people including the Monacan Nation and its ancestors that inhabited this region for 10,000 years and the enslaved people who lived and worked at Dick’s Plantation/Indian Camp/Morven from 1730-1865. Students and faculty in the School of Architecture’s four departments and varied cross-disciplinary programs are invited to participate in the founding of land labs, sustainability/climate adaptation courses and student organizations that will give life to the MSL strategic planning mission and goals.