Brittany Williams Named Assistant Director, Architecture Graduate Program
Associate Clinical Professor Brittany Wiliams AIA ‘05 M.Arch ‘07 joins the architecture administrative team this fall as the new assistant director of the graduate program. Williams will partner with Program Director Mohammed Gharipour to continue to grow the program’s rigor and reputation through c...
Bridging the Gap: How MAPP’s Internship Course Prepares Students for the Real World
By Keagan Suddith '27 When architecture student Meredith Embry ‘26 took an internship with UMD Space Systems Lab, one of the most important skills she gained wasn't a new technical skill: it was learning how to communicate with her engineering colleagues, whose industry jargon often sounded like a f...
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October 28, 2026
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NCSG Fall Colloquium - 12/10/2026
This colloquium series is open to the public. Join National Center for Smart Growth (NCSG) students, staff and faculty every month during the academic semester to hear more about ongoing research from NCSG and our many partners. NCSG’s research colloquium is a dedicated space curated by NCSG’s Execu...
December 10, 2026
December 10, 2026
NCSG Fall Colloquium - 11/19/2026
This colloquium series is open to the public. Join National Center for Smart Growth (NCSG) students, staff and faculty every month during the academic semester to hear more about ongoing research from NCSG and our many partners. NCSG’s research colloquium is a dedicated space curated by NCSG’s Execu...
November 19, 2026
November 19, 2026
NCSG Fall Colloquium - 10/15/26
This colloquium series is open to the public. Join National Center for Smart Growth (NCSG) students, staff and faculty every month during the academic semester to hear more about ongoing research from NCSG and our many partners. NCSG’s research colloquium is a dedicated space curated by NCSG’s Execu...
October 15, 2026
October 15, 2026
NCSG Fall Colloquium Series
This colloquium series is open to the public. Join National Center for Smart Growth (NCSG) students, staff and faculty every month during the academic semester to hear more about ongoing research from NCSG and our many partners. NCSG’s research colloquium is a dedicated space curated by NCSG’s Execu...
September 17, 2026
December 10, 2026
Lamprakos Joins MIT as Visiting Professor
Michele Lamprakos, photo courtesy of J.M. Ayala.
University of Maryland Associate Professor of Architecture Michele Lamprakos will join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) School of Architecture and Planning as a Visiting Associate Professor for the 2026 fall semester.She will teach tw...
A Second Career at UMD Offers an Unlikely ROI: Student Success
When Maria Day-Marshall was a little girl, she wanted to be exactly like her cousin. So when her cousin proclaimed she was going to be a lawyer when she grew up, Day-Marshall decided she would too. It's the kind of childhood plan that rarely carries into adulthood, but Day-Marshall’s did—through a M...
This Alum Played to Win in the 42nd Season of Jeopardy!: Who is Derek Lombardi?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was the U.S. president who deemed Thanksgiving a national holiday? Luckily, Derek Lombardi M.C.P. ‘17 did; he stumbled on this fun fact cramming for his appearance on Jeopardy! this past June— one of three “Slumdog Millionaire moments” that inched the urban planner ...