MAPP News
$460K Awarded to Faculty, Staff, Students From New Do Good Campus Fund
Post-doctoral Associate Stefan Woehlke was one of 27 grantees to earn funding from University of Maryland's inaugural Do Good Campus Fund to recruit and engage underrepresented students in archaeological heritage fieldwork. Read the article in Maryland Today.View Article Details for $460K Awarded to Faculty, Staff, Students From New Do Good Campus Fund 
MAPP Welcomes New Historic Preservation Program Director Susan Kern
Written by Brianna Rhodes. Susan Kern serves as the director of the Historic Preservation Program. She received her Ph.D. in History from William & Mary and her M.A. in Architectural History from the University of Virginia. In between degrees, she worked in the archaeology department at Monticello and directed field research. Kern formerly served as the Director of Historic Campus at William & Mary and taught history, material culture and museum studies courses in the history department.View Article Details for MAPP Welcomes New Historic Preservation Program Director Susan Kern 
A Worthy Charge
There’s a statistic in the architecture world that Lakisha Woods thinks deserves more attention. It’s not related to community development, sustainable practice or green design—but rather, who’s doing it. Although 51% of architecture students are women, they comprise only 17% of all registered architects.View Article Details for A Worthy Charge 
Students a City's Narrative Through a Camera Lens
As University of Maryland architecture student Elena Poll walked through Havana, Cuba’s, stately capitol building, what struck her wasn’t the marble halls or its majestic dome, but what she saw in its shadow: faded, pastel facades of once glorious Spanish-style buildings, now crumbling in ruin.View Article Details for Students a City's Narrative Through a Camera Lens 
Michele Lamprakos Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Associate Professor Michele Lamprakos, an architect and historian specializing in the architecture, heritage and urbanism of the Arab-Islamic world, has earned a 2023 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to forward her second book, Memento Mauri: The Afterlife of the Great Mosque of Cordoba (forthcoming, University of Texas Press).View Article Details for Michele Lamprakos Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 
MAPP Fall 2022 Student Project Showcase
Each semester, students from MAPP’s Master of Architecture, Master of Historic Preservation and Master of Real Estate Development Programs culminate their graduate experience at the University of Maryland with one final project. For architecture students, it’s the design thesis, a written and oral presentation of a site-specific project and a mash-up of the skills, design thinking and interpretation they’ll use in the profession.View Article Details for MAPP Fall 2022 Student Project Showcase