PhD

• Fall 2009 Lecture Series

  Next Lecture: Wednesday, December 2, 6:15pm
  Adèle Naudè Santos, FAIA
  MIT School of Architecture and Planning | Professor and Dean

• Join Team Maryland To Compete And Win The 2010 Uli-Hines Prize

  Want to be on a winning team and take home $50,000 your trouble? Faculty in all the disciplines are committed to working with one or more teams to earn Maryland the $50,000 top prize in the 2010 National ULI-Hines Competition-- the largest Design and Development Competition in the country.

• Interdisciplinary Hillman Design and Development Case Competition

  The Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development and Developer, David Hillman, are co-sponsoring an interdisciplinary design and development competition and the winning team will walk away with $15,000.
  

• New Center for the Use of Sustainable Practices (CUSP) Announced

  Using LEAFHouse as a pilot project, the new Center for the Use of Sustainable Practices (CUSP) was formed.  CUSP joins the National Center for Smart Growth as a sister center, in order to explore research, design, education and outreach activities related to sustainable practices at the scale of the building, the community, and the city. 

• Collaborative Faculty/Student Urban Design Work Exhibited in Brooklyn

  The work of the Maryland Urban Research Studio will be exhibited in Brooklyn, NY, April 11–May 9, 2009. The exhibition will feature Ground Work/s, a project created by the studio in 2008.

• Dennis Jankiewicz Receives 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award

  Dennis Jankiewicz, B.Arch '73, has been awarded the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation's 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award.

• Interdisciplinary Student Team Top 10 in National Urban Design Competition

  A team of five graduate students from the Planning, Architecture and Real Estate Development programs shares the winner's circle with MIT, Harvard and Columbia at the HINES Urban Design Competition.

• Washington on the Move: The Architecture of Transportation

  The School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation will host the Eighth Biennial Symposium on the Historic Development of Metropolitan Washington, DC on Saturday, March 7, 2009.

• PhD Student Wins Transportation Scholarship

  Carolina Burnier is the winner of an annual graduate scholarship from the Women's Transportation Seminar.

• PhD Program Contributes to New Book on Smart Growth in China

  Two faculty members and a student in the PhD program in Urban and Regional Planning and Design are key contributors to a new book on smart growth in China

• Students and Alums Publish New Research in Leading Journals

  Several recent graduates and a student in the Urban and Regional Planning and Design program contribute articles to several leading planning and development journals.

• Spring 2009 Lecture Series

  Next Lecture: Friday, May 8, 7:00pm
  Greg Pasquarelli: SHoP Architects
  Architecture Building Auditorium
  

• Spring Commencement 2009

  Thursday, May, 21, 7:00pm - Comcast Center (University)
  Friday, May 22, 9:30am - Samuel Riggs Alumni Center (School)

• Maryland Students and Faculty Attend 2008 Maryland-Delaware APA Regional Conference

  This year's conference focused on green urban design and planning for the Mid-Atlantic region.

• PhD Student Presents Paper at Immigration Research Conference in College Park

  Joe Costanzo, Ph.D. candidate, presents a paper entitled "Planning to Integrate: Immigrant Participation in Urban Projects," at a University of Maryland-sponsored Conference on Immigration Research in College Park, MD.

• Interdisciplinary Career Fair

  Friday, March 6, 2009, 1:00pm
  Architecture Building, Great Space
  

• New Book by John Frece Details Political History of Maryland's Smart Growth

  A new book by John W. Frece, Associate Director of the National Center for Smart Growth, details the politics and back-room maneuvering that in 1997 led to the creation of Maryland's well known Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation initiative.

• PhD Student Successfully Defends Thesis

  Rodney Harrell, a student in the Urban and Regional Planning and Design PhD Program, successfully defended his thesis, Understanding Modern Segregation: Suburbanization and the Black Middle Class.

• Ph.D. Student Wins Summer Fellowship and Travel Grant

  Ph.D. student Joe Costanzo has been awarded the 2008 Summer Graduate Research Fellowship and the Goldhaber Travel Grant to attend and present at a conference in Rome, by the University's Graduate School.

• PhD Students Present Papers at Graduate Research Interaction Day (GRID)

  PhD students Lynette Boswell, Joe Costanzo, Jung Ho Shin, and Maria Teresa Souza presented their research at the Graduate Research Interaction Day (GRID).

• PhD Graduate's Article Published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research

  Our second Ph.D. graduate, Vikas Mehta, has just published an article in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.

• Ph.D. Student Wins a Research and Seminar Grant from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

  Maria Teresa Souza received a US$10,000 grant from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to develop a research paper and to participate in a seminar focusing on the impact of public regulations on the process of urbanization in Latin America with her research proposal titled "Informality, Land Use Regulation, and Housing Price: a Model Applied to Curitiba, Brazil,"

• Fall Lecture Series: Planning for Opportunity, Equity and Change

  Monday, October 27, 2008, 8:00pm
  Samuel J. LeFrak Lecture
  Architecture Building Auditorium

• Ph.D. Students Win Graduate Fellowships from the Federal Highway Administration

  Two URPD students, Andi Livi Smith and Carolina Burnier received Eisenhower Graduate Fellowships from the Federal Highway Administration.
  

• Ph.D. Student Wins Dissertation Fellowship Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  Andi Livi Smith was the recipient of dissertation fellowship plus travel funds to attend the Active Living Research conference in San Diego in 2007.