MAPP News
A Foundation for Dignified Senior Housing
Rodney Harrell (PhD ’08) and Shannon Guzman (M.C.P. ’08) will tell you that senior housing issues in America aren’t a senior problem—they’re an everyone problem. In less than 10 years, there will be 72 million people over the age of 65 in the United States. Many of those individuals will be cared for by some 48 million family members. Where they will live—and the quality of life they receive in those places—largely depends on how prepared we are as a nation.View Article Details for A Foundation for Dignified Senior Housing 
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 
Study Finds Neighborhood Features Impact Mental and Physical Health for Better or Worse
Written by Allison Eatough ’97View Article Details for Study Finds Neighborhood Features Impact Mental and Physical Health for Better or Worse 
UMD Initiative to Help Businesses of Color Survive—and Thrive—Despite Neighborhood Change
Written by Willow Lung-AmamThe view from Nubian Hueman, a clothing and home décor boutique in Washington, D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood, has shifted. Over the past five years, owner Anika Hobbs has seen more cranes and construction crews, as well as a change in the people that walk past her storefront: Once mostly Black, they are now more frequently white. “Right now, Anacostia is under the threat of major gentrification,” she said. “We cater to people of color, so what is that going to look like when the neighborhood changes?”View Article Details for UMD Initiative to Help Businesses of Color Survive—and Thrive—Despite Neighborhood Change 
Vikas Mehta (PhD 06)
He has just accepted The Terence M. Fruth/Gemini Chair of Signage Design and Community Planning and Eminent Scholar of Urban/Environmental Design position at the University of Cincinnati. The chair professorship will develop a new initiative focused on communication in the urban environment (CUE) by collaborating with planning, architecture, design, signage design, communication and other disciplines.View Article Details for Vikas Mehta (PhD 06)