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  • Joe Kunkel and a Native American Housing

    Joseph Kunkel: Highlighting Native History, Policy and Design

    The Architecture Program opened its first Spring 2024 lecture series with architecture alum Joseph Kunkel (M.ARCH ’09) on Wednesday, February 7. His lecture, “Designing with Dignity: Policy, Advocacy, and the Art of Architecture,” provided insight on his work in the context of policy and its connection to Native land.  
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  • Joe Kunkel and a Native American Housing

    Tribal Loyalties

    Written by Sala Levin ’10 for TERP Magazine.American Indians have long been denied fair access to homes, health care, schooling and jobs. For Joseph Kunkel M.Arch. ’09, the mission to change that is personal. Read more in TERP Magazine. 
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  • Modern interior and exterior architectural residential houses

    MAPP Alums Receive Top Honors at AIA PV 2023 Excellence in Design Awards

    Written by Brianna Rhodes Ten MAPP alumni were among the recipients who took home awards at this year's Excellence in Design Awards during the AIA Potomac Valley (AIA PV) Design + Leadership awards celebration on Thursday, Oct. 19. The event took place at the Montgomery County Planning Department’s headquarters building in Wheaton, Maryland.
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  • Craig Spangler and his family

    Craig Spangler Receives UMD President’s Award

    MAPP alums are no strangers to receiving top awards worldwide, but being recognized at their alma mater makes being an award recipient extra special. Just ask Craig Spangler, AIA (B.ARCH ‘82), who received the President's Award at the Alumni Association’s 2023 A Celebration of Terps: Featuring the Maryland Awards on Nov. 10.
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  • Nicholas DiBella and Duong Le

    AIAPV Honors Two MAPP Alums as 2024 “Emerging Professionals”

    Written by Brianna Rhodes
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  • Collage of headshots and NASA logo

    The Cool Day Jobs of UMD’s Adjunct Professors

    Originally published in Maryland Today, written by Annie Krakower. In between days spent defending the Earth from asteroids, teaching jujitsu, studying crime scenes and excelling at hundreds of other vocations, experts across the Baltimore-Washington area come to the University of Maryland to do it some more.
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