MAPP News
UMD Names Dr. Sonia Hirt New Dean of MAPP
The University of Maryland today announced the appointment of Dr. Sonia A. Hirt as dean of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Dr. Hirt will officially assume her new role on October 1, 2016.“Dr. Hirt’s leadership skills and more than a decade of experience teaching and researchin...View Article Details for UMD Names Dr. Sonia Hirt New Dean of MAPP 
UMD Joins NCARB’s IPAL Initiative
The National Council of Architecture Registration Boards (NCARB) has accepted the University of Maryland’s architecture program into the Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL) initiative. By blending experience and examination into the curricula, the initiative will provide students with ...View Article Details for UMD Joins NCARB’s IPAL Initiative UMD Announces New Dual Master’s Degree in Real Estate Development and Business Administration
The University of Maryland College Park has approved the establishment of a Dual Degree Program for the Master of Real Estate Development and the Master of Business Administration. Proposed last fall by Dean David Cronrath and Alexander Triantis, Dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business, the d...View Article Details for UMD Announces New Dual Master’s Degree in Real Estate Development and Business Administration UMD Study: “Targeted” Housing Policy the Key to Preventing Transit-Induced Gentrification
Researchers at the University of Maryland’s National Center for Smart Growth have leveraged an innovative land use model to predict how different policies surrounding Transit Oriented Development, or TOD, will affect housing, gentrification and opportunity in the Washington, D.C. region. The study, ...View Article Details for UMD Study: “Targeted” Housing Policy the Key to Preventing Transit-Induced Gentrification 
Studio Brings the “Heart of Campus” to Center Field
For years, the University of Maryland community has recognized the campus’ iconic McKeldin Mall as the “heart of campus.” Geographically, however, one would need to look north, to UMD’s Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium, home to the Terp baseball team. This topographical reality represents a larger disconn...View Article Details for Studio Brings the “Heart of Campus” to Center Field 
2016 AIA COTE Award Winner
A design project conceived by two graduate students from the University of Maryland’s (UMD) Architecture Program has placed in the 2016 AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Design Competition. Graduate students Erin Barkman and Emily Latham’s winning design, entitled, “Creativity Sustaining Community,” del...View Article Details for 2016 AIA COTE Award Winner