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• Fall 2012 Lecture Series: Kibel Gallery Lecture - Ruth Adler Schnee

  Fall 2012 Lecture Series: Kibel Gallery Lecture
  October 19th- 12:30-1:45 pm
  UMD KIbel Gallery- Lunchtime 
  Lecture by Ruth Adler Schnee
  "Courage: the key factor in every form of the creative and artistic process"

• Fall 2012 Graduate Open House for Prospective Students

  You are invited to attend the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and Real Estate Development’s Prospective Graduate Student Open House on Friday, October 5, 2012, at in the Architecture Building Auditorium.

• Fall 2012 Lecture Series: The Swiss Touch in Landscape Architecture

  Fall 2012 Lecture Series: Gallery Lecture
  Friday, September 21, 2012 | 6:15 pm
  Architecture Auditorium
  Lecture by Lukas Schweingruber Schweingruber Zulauf Landscape Architects, Zurich
  "The Swiss Touch in Landscape Architecture"
  

• Fall 2012 Lecture Series: Kibel Gallery Lecture

  Fall 2012 Lecture Series: Kibel Gallery Lecture
  September 19, 2012 | 6:15 pm
  Architecture Auditorium - Reception in the Kibel Gallery to follow
  Lecture by TIME[SCAPE]LAB: Brian Ambroziak & Andrew McLellan
  "Confabulatores Nocturni"
  

• New Book - Inspired Innovation: WaterShed at the University of Maryland

  Get your copy of the new book Inspired Innovation: WaterShed at the University of Maryland, which tells the story of the making of the winning entry in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011

• First Certification through "Sustainable Maryland Certified" Program received by Berlin, Maryland

  The Environmental Finance Center (EFC) has recognized the town of Berlin as the first municipality in Maryland to complete its certification through the “Sustainable Maryland Certified” program (SMC)

• 40th Anniversary Celebration - October 12th and 13th, 2012

  Join Dean Cronrath, faculty, alumni, students and friends October 12-13th as we mark the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation's 40th Anniversary.

• Eisenbach and Mansur's "Out of Place" Debuts in Reston POSTPONED to May 6th due to weather

  New Reston Installation and Performance Continues Exploration of Space and Movement

  Out of Place, a site-situated installation and contemporary dance performance conceived by Associate Professor of Architecture Ronit Eisenbach and Assistant Professor of Dance Sharon Mansur will debut this month at Lake Anne Plaza in Reston, VA.
  

• Spring 2012 Lecture Series: Alaa el-Habashi

  Marvin Breckenridge Patterson Lecture:
  Thursday, April 26, 2012 | 6:00pm
  Architecture Auditorium
  Lecture by Alaa Elwi el-Habashi
  "Community Participation and Conservation:
  Selecting World Heritage Sites in the Arab Region"

• Spring 2012 Lecture Series: Bobbie Kilberg

  ADVANCE Scholar Lecture:
  Thursday, April 26, 2012 | 4:00pm
  Art /Sociology Building | Room 2203
  Lecture by Bobbie Kilberg
  "The Road Ahead: The Technology Industry and the Region's Economic Future"

• AIA Reception in the City of Washington

  Reception for Alumni of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
  Friday, May 18, 2012 | 5:00-7:00 p.m.
  Offices of Suzane Reatig Architecture
  

• Spring 2012 Lecture Series: Dr. Jaafar Chalabi

  Lombardo Lecture:
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012 | 6:15pm
  Architecture Auditorium
  Lecture by Dr. Jaafar Chalabi
  "Move"

• Sustainable Tuesdays: Building Resilience to Climage Change: Planning, Policy & Practice

  Sustainable Tuesdays: A Lecture Series
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012 | 3:30 pm
  Architecture Auditorium
  Lecture by Zoe Johnson and Students of Professor Vikki Chanse
  "Building Resilience to Climate Change: Planning, Policy & Practice"

• International Night 2012

  International Night Sponsored by NOMAS
  Friday, April 13, 2012 | 6:15 pm
  Great Space
  featuring student and faculty art | live music | international cuisine +
  linear gallery study abroad exhibition
  

• PhD Student Finds Many Treasures in Squished Pennies

  Christine Henry, a PhD candidate and assistant to the Director of the Historic Preservation program, has had a passion for the squished penny for over a decade.

• WATERSHED TAKES ROOT AT PEPCO'S ROCKVILLE FACILITY

  Bay-inspired solar house will continue to educate, innovate under new ownership

  “It’s fantastic to know that the house and its mission will live on, that Pepco will carry our torch and build upon what the team had started years ago. It couldn’t go to a better owner,” said Brian Grieb, WaterShed’s Project Manager and Faculty Advisor.

• 75th Anniversary Symposium: Sustaining Greenbelt's Legacy

  "Sustaining Greenbelt's Legacy" is a two-day symposium celebrating the 75th Anniversary of this New Deal community.  It is being held in the Greenbelt Community Center--the original Resettlement Administration elementary school--on April 27th & 28th, 2012.

• Admitted Graduate Students Open House - Friday, March 30, 2012

  Friday, March 30, 2012 | 1:30 pm
  Register outside the Architecture Auditorium
  

• Baltimore Communities Get a Sneak Peak of Cross Street Market Design Concepts

  Design concepts for the Cross Street Market in Baltimore’s Federal Hill neighborhood will be unveiled tomorrow, Thursday, March 29th in Baltimore.

• Spring 2012 Lecture Series: Robert Siegel

  Kibel Gallery Lecture:
  Wednesday, March 28, 2012 | 6:15pm
  Architecture Auditorium
  Lecture by Robert Siegel
  "Movement: Robert Siegel Architects"

• Sustainable Tuesdays: Food and Sustainability

  Sustainable Tuesdays: A Lecture Series
  Tuesday, March 13, 2012 | 3:30 pm
  Architecture Auditorium
  Lecture by Colleen Wright-Riva and Greg Thompson
  "Food and Sustainability"
  

• Ph.D. Spring 2012 Colloquium

  Urban and Regional Planning and Design doctoral candidates present their research in a series of informal presentations taking place this Spring 2012 semester.  Please join us and learn about their exciting research and help our candidates practice their presentation skills before a live audience. Lunch will be provided.

• Fall 2011 Graduate Open House for Prospective Students

  You are invited to attend the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and Real Estate Development’s Prospective Graduate Student Open House on Friday, November 4, 2011, at 1:30pm in the Architecture Building Auditorium.
  

• As Japan Recovers from Earthquake, One Maryland Professor Maps Out a Plan to Help

  Hours after last month's earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, as reports of the extensive damage and loss of life began to trickle in, the international community began looking for ways they could help. For Professor Hiroyuki (Hiro) Iseki, an assistant professor of urban planning who grew up in Hyogo, Japan, the desire to contribute in some way resonated close to home.
  

• Smart Growth: What is it? Why is it important?

  Sustainable Tuesdays: A Lecture Series about
  Sustainability and the University of Maryland, College Park
  5pm Tuesdays, School of Architecture Planning and Preservation

  Tuesday, March 8, 5pm, Architecture Auditorium

• Rescheduled: Architect Daniel Libeskind to lecture Friday April 8, 2011 at 6:15 pm

  Daniel Libeskind, the world-renowned architect of projects like the master plan for the World Trade Center in New York and the Jewish Museum Berlin, will be giving a lecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation on Wednesday, February 16th 2011 at 6:15 pm.

• MARYLAND'S SOLAR DECATHLON WATERSHED TEAM AWARDED $50,000 GRANT

  The University of Maryland's Solar Decathlon WaterShed team has been awarded a $50,000 grant from Constellation Energy, a Baltimore-based company specializing in energy products and services. Constellation's "E2: Energy to Educate" grants recognize environmental projects that inspire students to use science and technology to address growing energy challenges.

• Architecture, Planning and Preservation Career & Internship Fair

  This key event for students and alumni of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation consists of several opportunities to interact and network with organizations and alumni.

  
  Friday, March 11, 2011, 12:00PM - 05:00PM  Great Space, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

• Planning Program presents industrial land use findings

  An assessment of Prince George's County's industrial land use, conducted by the University of Maryland's Urban Studies and Planning Program, was presented last week to the Prince George's County Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Committee, the first comprehensive examination of the county's industrial space in 20 years.

• Jeff Tiell a Ph.D. candidate has received an International Conference Student Support award

  Jeff Tiell, a Ph.D. student in Urban and Regional Planning and Design, has received an International Conference Student Support Award (ICSSA) from the Graduate School at the University of Maryland towards his participation in the Just City Symposium in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in February 2011.  

• Thomas Spiegelhalter lecture

  Thomas Spiegelhalter will be lecturing on the topic of "Globally Benchmarked Buildings versus Green Washed Buildings: Taking a Critical Look at the Design, Resource Use, and Performance of Sustainable Buildings and Cities."

• Current Ph.D. student Jeff Tiell publishes an article in Next American City

  Jeff's article sparked a lively discussion...

• Carl Elefante FAIA makes the Winter 2011 Commencement Address

  TV journalist Tom Brokaw popularized the term "The Greatest Generation" in his 1998 book to characterize those Americans who grew up during the Great Depression of the 1930's, defeated Fascism, Nazism and Imperial Japan in World War II, and afterwards shaped the modern world.  They created a world of unprecedented economic vitality and personal freedom. 

• Zubin Adrianvala Selected as Center for Teaching Excellence Fellow

  Adrianvala, a Ph.D. student in Urban and Regional Planning and Design, will serve as a CTE Fellow in the 2010-11 academic year.
  

• PhD Student Dempwolf to Join Thought Leaders on Regional Economic Development

  PhD Candidate Scott Dempwolf will participate in the Transformative Regional Engagement (TRE) Roundtable December 7-8, 2010, in Washington, DC.

• Lynette Boswell, Ph.D. Candidate in URPD, Selected for HUD University Partnership Grant

• Planning Students Produce Research Both at Home and Abroad

  The Urban Studies & Planning program sponsored two planning studios in Summer 2010—giving students the opportunity to travel to Cape Town, South Africa or to learn more about their own community in Prince George's County.

• 2010 Graduate Open House for Prospective Students

  Friday, October 22, 2010
  Architecture Building Auditorium
  1:30pm

• Cronrath Named New Dean of UM School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

  David Cronrath has been named the next dean of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland. He will begin his Maryland post on July 1.

• PhD Student Wins Metropolis Conference Award

  PhD student Joe Costanzo has won an award from from the Organizers of the 2010 Metropolis Conference in the Hague to present his research on cultural participation and the integration of immigrants in Belgium.

• Planning Professor Howell S. Baum Publishes Book on Baltimore School Desegregation

  Baum gives talk at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore to discuss his new book. Listen to the Podcast. Baum is also a guest on WYPR Midday with Dan Rodricks. Listen to the interview (MP3).

• PhD Student Wins Competitive NeighborWorks America Scholarship

  PhD student Lynette Boswell won a competitive scholarship to the week-long NeighborWorks Training Institute, held annually in Washington, DC and sponsored by NeighborWorks America.

• December Graduates and Award Winners Announced

  Please join us in congratulating our December graduates and award winners.

• PhD Students Continue to Make Their Mark

  Ph.D. students, Rebecca Lewis, Zubin Adrienval and  Joe Costanzo continue to make their mark in the academic community by publishing articles and winning fellowships.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. 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.
  

• 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.