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Fri, 01/31/2020 - 12:00

Imagine living in the agricultural epicenter of Europe, yet being so hungry you must eat dried nettle leaves to survive. This was the reality for millions of Ukrainians in 1932, the victims of one the worst manufactured famines in human history. Called Holodomor, which loosely translates to “death by starvation” in Ukrainian, Stalin’s year-long campaign to starve Ukrainian wheat farmers into submission resulted in nearly four million deaths and was kept quiet for nearly half a century, proclaimed “fake news” by the Soviet regime.

Mon, 01/06/2020 - 12:00

The EFC is pleased to announce the release of a new online course at the MOST Center: Landscaping for Resilience in a Changing Climate.

Fri, 10/11/2019 - 12:00

Six student projects were recognized for design excellence this year by AIA Maryland during the AIA Maryland 2019 Excellence in Design Awards, taking prizes in four out of the six categories and sweeping the “beginning design, graduate level” category.

Tue, 09/24/2019 - 12:00

Bridging the Gap, a collaborative, cross-continental design studio between the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Al-Nahrain University in Iraq, was awarded Architect Magazine’s 2019 Studio Prize.

Mon, 06/03/2019 - 12:00

Written by Dan Novak.

Wed, 05/29/2019 - 12:00

Over the past 50 years, MAPP has produced its fair share of power couples. In the fall of 2016, Ryan Rattanni and Chelsie Miller were added to the roster. The two met through UMD’s Urban Studies and Planning Program, where they worked and studied alongside each other in a tight-knit cohort; sparks began to officially fly during Uri Avin’s Land Use Planning Class… possibly because Uri is known to make Barry White references during his lectures (but more likely because they worked on a project together).