News

Tue, 03/29/2022 - 12:00

In a new report, UMD Environmental Finance Center's Dr. Jennifer Egan and a team led by the Trust for Public Land identify the economic benefits provided by parks in New York City. 

Tue, 03/08/2022 - 12:00

An interdisciplinary team of graduate students from UMD’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation has landed one of four finalist slots in the ninth annual HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning (IAH) Competition 2022, beating out 28 teams from some of the most formidable graduate-level programs in the United States. UMD will go up against two teams from the University of California, Berkley and a team from the University of Kansas in a virtual competition to vie for the winning title.

Tue, 03/08/2022 - 12:00

The elation Erin Nivison felt after completing two bathroom renovations in two weeks was tempered by her utter exhaustion. Nivison had stumbled into redesign work as a side-hustle to her career in the mortgage industry and was hooked on the creativity she could apply to transforming kitchens, bathrooms and entire houses into beautiful, sustainable spaces. “I loved doing it and thought I could make a career out of it, but it was exhausting work,” she said.

Tue, 02/01/2022 - 12:00

The Environmental Finance Center (EFC), in partnership with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and other local organizations, developed a series of peer-to-peer learning workshops for municipal governments in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

Tue, 02/01/2022 - 12:00

Assistant Professor Marccus D. Hendricks delivered a keynote at the 2021 American Water Resources Association Mid-Atlantic Conference on hybrid stormwater systems. In his presentation, Dr. Hendricks proposes the merits of leveraging existing infrastructure, community resources and networked plans as part of climate hazard mitigation plans. 

Mon, 12/27/2021 - 12:00

One of the most challenging roles an urban planner must play is that of a soothsayer: prognosticating the future of a community in the face of almost impossibly unpredictable forces like climate change, the economy or a pandemic. But a fall studio by urban planning and historic preservation students at the University of Maryland attempted to do just that for one suburb in Montgomery County, Maryland, in advance of its revamped master plan, visualizing what life in Fairland/Briggs Chaney would look like for residents under three alternative futures.