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KEVIN KHUNG spent one year studying engineering before deciding it wasn't for him. An average and unmotivated student, he dropped out of school to work for a friend who owned a design build firm. It was there that he discovered landscape architecture. Eventually Khung returned to college and in 1987 received a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Design from the College of Natural Resources at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Acting upon the claim by one of his University of Massachusetts professors that K-State's landscape architecture program was the best in the nation, Khung, a native of Foxboro, MA, relocated to Manhattan to pursue a Master's in Landscape Architecture.

Following completion of his MLA, Khung was employed as a Landscape Architect with the U.S.D.A. Forest Service in the San Juan National Forest near Durango, CO. His primary duties included planning, design and construction administration of recreation facilities. He also participated in interdisciplinary teams as a resource specialist for natural resource issues. In August of 1998, Khung began working at the National Forest and Center for Design and Interpretation in the San Juan National Forest where his primary duties included the planning, design and construction administration of major recreation facilities throughout the Rocky Mountain Region.

Since July of 2000, Khung has worked as a Landscape Architect for the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Eastern Region, Technical Service Team, Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont. His duties there include the planning and design of administrative and recreation facilities. Khung also serves as a subject matter expert and Master Performer within the Eastern Region, providing leadership and technical expertise in project management, contract implementation, partnership development, employee mentorship and training, peer performance review, project completion, and representation of Forest Service interests in negotiations and legal affairs.

Khung is a registered landscape architect in Kansas and also maintains U.S.D.A. Forest Service Engineering Certification as a Public Works Contracting Officers' Representative, Public Works Inspector, and in Roads, Sampling and Testing, Trails, Buildings, Concrete and Aggregate Base, and Surfacing. He has been named a U.S.D.A. Forest Service Master Performer in Site Design, Project Management, and Computer Aided Design Systems and has received a number of Certificates of Merit for his contributions and superior performance on many projects. Khung's love of the outdoors and politics have benefited him greatly in his career with the Forest Service.

Married to fellow K-State alumnus Lara Jenkins (B.Arch. 1991), the couple have a two-year old daughter, Delaney. In reality, Khung says, his family and personal life greatly outweigh his professional accomplishments, something he would never have believed at graduation.