Sam is a Fellow with the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), their highest honor. Rogers is one of the founding members of the accredited Landscape Architecture Program at UT. He also founded the UT Environmental Landscape Design Lab which served to connect student academic experiences with ‘service learning’ and community outreach projects such as restoring native plants and plant communities to greenways, wetlands, meadows, riparian areas, and schoolyard environments. The Native American Interpretative Garden on the UT Agriculture Campus is an example of the amazing work Rogers completed throughout his career.​​