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UI students and faculty create Vandal Healing Garden to honor murder v...

MOSCOW — The murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022 may have been the catalyst for a new memorial on the UI campus, but the space is meant for anyone looking to process grief or find a moment of peace.

On Tuesday, 14 UI architecture students and faculty endured the hot sun to build some of the Vandal Healing Garden and Memorial that they also designed. It is located next to the UI Physical Education Building.

One of those students, Korbyn Averett, said the project should be compl...

The Spokesman-Review • July 19 2024

The Vandal Healing Garden and Memorial began with grief. The architecture became a journey of hope and togetherness

Grief isn’t linear – and neither is the Vandal Healing Garden and Memorial.
The shape of the garden at the University of Idaho campus swirls in a circle, with planted flowers lining the sidewalks. Crescents of wooden blocks stand high for loved ones to place notes inside to people who have died. Steel beams rise off the ground and surround a spot that will eventually be a memorial sculpture.
A beacon on a nearby hill will be fit with panels and lights to shine across campus, a representation of...