MDE Smart Salting: Enhanced Winter Maintenance Training (Fall 2026)
The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) Smart Salting: Enhanced Winter Maintenance Training helps reduce winter salt pollution beyond state and county roads, covering parking lots, driveways, and sidewalks. This hybrid course is designed for property managers, business owners, landscaping companies, and other private contractors and salt applicators who maintain parking lots, driveways, and sidewalks in the winter.
This is a public event.The PALS showcase is an event held in an "open house" format, where students involved in PALS projects have the opportunity to prepare and present posters that highlight their work. The event is attended by students, faculty and project sponsors (members of local government, b...
Supporting Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay's Morgan State Planning Fellowship Program
With support from the Region 3 Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay launched a yearlong graduate fellowship with Morgan State University’s School of Architecture & Planning. Fellows are placed with partner municipalities to lead public outreach and engagement on pre-identified environmental priorities, culminating in an implementation-ready community plan.This initiative aims to:
This public event is hosted by the National Center for Smart GrowthDetails on the summit are found on NCSG's website. The National Center for Smart Growth (NCSG) at the University of Maryland invites you to an exciting upcoming regional event, Affordable and Connected Communities: Transit, Developme...
Written by John Tucker and originally published in Maryland TodayPrimrose Stukes fell in love with the small colonial in Baltimore’s Westfield neighborhood a dozen years ago, its bay-windowed kitchen perfect for family gatherings and Ravens parties. But after she bought the house built in 1930, brow...
A design proposal by University of Maryland graduate students to unify two Baltimore neighborhoods historically divided by redlining and disinvestment earned top honors in the 2026 Congress of the New Urbanism (CNU) Charter Awards. “Madison Crescent,” which transforms a vacant parcel into a communit...
This Colden Florence-Thomas Eichbaum Lecture is open to the public. The lecture will be live streamed on Youtube.Speaker:Carin SmutsPrinciple, CS Studio ArchitectsAbout the lecture:WHY LISTEN?WHAT IS AN AFRICAN PRACTICE? One that primarily draws inspiration from African influences. The work is conte...
Craig & Mimi Spangler Architecture Lecture: David T. Fortin
4 - 5:30 p.m.
This Craig and Mimi Spangler Lecture is open to the public.This lecture will be livestreamed on Youtube.Speaker:David T. FortinProfessor at University of Waterloo and Principal Architect at David T Fortin ArchitectThis talk will interrogate how learning spaces impact our positionality as architects,...
HISP Alumna Rei Harada brings Egypt’s Heritage to Light
When most people think of Egypt, the predominant image that comes to mind is the Pyramids. Yet, the history and heritage of this country is vast and diverse, something M.H.P. alum Rei Harada ('08), who is a researcher for the International Center for Cultural Heritage Conservation, Faculty of Fine A...
