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"School" of Thought: How Fish Farms Might be the Secret to Sustainable Cities
When it comes to aquaculture, we are missing the boat. One of the fastest growing food producers on the planet, aquaculture, or fish farming, is now responsible for half of the seafood on the world’s dinner plate. But aquaculture’s centuries-old history and versatile applications, says Clinical Assi...View Article Details for "School" of Thought: How Fish Farms Might be the Secret to Sustainable Cities 
Alum Allison Wilson Earns AIA’s 2022 Young Architects Award
The American Institute of Architects has awarded Allison Wilson, a senior associate at Baltimore’s Ayers Saint Gross (ASG) and a 2011 M.ARCH alum, with a 2022 AIA Young Architects Award. The AIA Young Architects Award honors individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and made significa...View Article Details for Alum Allison Wilson Earns AIA’s 2022 Young Architects Award 
A Tumultuous History, Cast in Stone and Bronze/ Alum’s Study of Ukraine’s Memorials Traces Quest for Democracy Under Soviet Shadow
For days, architect Larysa Kurylas ’80 had weighed her safety working in Kyiv against the advice of her American ex-pat and Ukrainian friends who were skeptical of a Russian advance on the capital.But in the early hours of Feb. 11, unable to sleep in her apartment, she tuned into “PBS NewsHour” and ...View Article Details for A Tumultuous History, Cast in Stone and Bronze/ Alum’s Study of Ukraine’s Memorials Traces Quest for Democracy Under Soviet Shadow 
A Story in Progress
Isabel Anderson sits in a quiet corner of the Architecture Building, spiral-bound notebooks spread neatly across her desk. Working quickly with her pencil, Anderson is telling a story: not through words and phrases, but one that’s carefully constructed with walls and windows.Anderson's project is pa...View Article Details for A Story in Progress UMD Team Makes “Final Four” in HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition
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 fo...View Article Details for UMD Team Makes “Final Four” in HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition 
"I see the impact of my scholarship everywhere."
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, bathro...View Article Details for "I see the impact of my scholarship everywhere."