Spring Studio with Iraqi University Aims to “Bridge the Gap”
Gensler-UMD partnership will pair students from UMD and Al-Nahrain University in first-ever architecture international design studioThis spring, a cross-cultural studio will connect students from seemingly different ways of life to discover how much they actually have in common. “Bridging the Gap,” ...
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, ...
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...
HISP alum shares the story of the Jackson Magnolia on NPR
The Jackson Magnolia, a collossal, 200-year-old tree that has been a fixture on the White House grounds for 39 presidents, is in trouble. After early reports of its impending removal, a sizable trimming has kept in intact for another day. HISP alum, historian and author of A Garden for the President...
HISP Student Ty Ginter Looks to Preserve a Piece of LGBT History
Historic Preservation graduate student Ty Ginter is featured this month on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s website for their work to preserve the history of Washington D.C.’s “Gay Way,” a cluster of LGBT establishments that thrived in Southeast D.C. during the second half of the 20th ...
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...
MRED Program Welcomes New Faculty
The School’s MRED program is proud to announce a new crop of talented professionals joining their faculty ranks this semester. Spanning a variety of professional disciplines and experiences, these men and women will share their knowledge and insight with students in classes across a wide range of ar...
UMD Creates New Undergraduate Minors in Real Estate Development and Construction Management
The University of Maryland has announced the establishment of two new undergraduate minors, one in real estate development and one in construction management. Generously funded by the Colvin Family Foundation, the new minors will offer foundational knowledge in community building, entrepreneurship, ...
Alumni Profile: Rameez Munawar (B.S. Architecture ’12, MRED ’14)
In 2014, five MAPP graduate students clinched first place at the ULI Hines Competition, edging out 160 collegiate teams with their imaginative revitalization concept for the Nashville, Tn., neighborhood of Sulfur Dell. Of the five students, Rameez Munawar was the lone delegate from MAPP’s real estat...
UMD Students Present Final Sustainability Projects to The City of Frederick
Students, faculty and administrators from the University of Maryland gathered at College Park City Hall Tuesday night to present four city-focused sustainability projects to Mayor Andrew Fellows and the City Council. The projects—a calculation of College Park’s annual greenhouse gas emissions; desig...