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Student looking at images connected to an EEG

Is Healthy Building Design all in Your Head?

By Katherine Shaver Could images of plants, waterfalls and other nature scenes outside hospital room windows help patients recover more quickly? Do specific sounds and the feel of a building’s materials improve people's focus?Healing, productivity and even happiness can be directly connected to the ...
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Scott Metzner with students from the school of architecture

Restoring Community to a Little-Known Part of Gotham

The historic red brick warehouses at West 126th St. and Amsterdam Avenue in West Harlem have been many things over their lifetime. For their first century, they were the epicenter of New York City’s burgeoning beer industry, until Prohibition officers dumped their contents into Harlem sewers in 1923...
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You may already be interacting with AI every time you enter a building — through smart climate systems, occupancy sensors, predictive lighting or security platforms. The built environment — buildings, infrastructure, transportation systems and public spaces — is humanity's most immediate, tangible and large-scale point of encounter with artificial intelligence. Architects who understand this are not simply adapting to change. They are positioned to shape it.

Group shot of students, faculty and staff in the Great Space with Testudo.

Built to Belong Spring 2026

12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.

This event is open to the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation community only. Join us for the first of two community belonging events, where you can take some time and relax before the end of the semester!Food and activities will be provided.

2026-04-27T12:00:00
2026-04-27T12:00:00
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Sustainable Maryland banner

EFC's Sustainable Maryland Releases 2025 Annual Report

2025 saw Sustainable Maryland continue to expand our efforts to convene, connect and inspire. We expanded our community to 94 municipalities; awarded the second year of SM Action Grants; instituted quarterly Happy Hours across the state; and continued our collaboration with the national Sustainable ...
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TERRAPLAN the student-led journal of the University of Maryland's Student Planning Association

TerraPlan Issue 02 Launch Event

11:00 a.m. - 1 p.m.

This event is open to the UMD community.Join us for the launch of TerraPlan Issue 02, themed “Our Time: Memory & Imagination in Planning”. Celebrate graduate student research and creative work on planning, cities, and the built environment. Enjoy light refreshments, meet the authors and editors,...

2026-05-07T12:00:00
2026-05-07T12:00:00
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2026 April

2025 EFC Annual Report

Dear Friends and Supporters,The Environmental Finance Center entered 2025 with hope in our hearts in the face of uncertainty. We learned a great deal about the spirit and tenacity of our team, our partners, and our profession. And, as we dared to dream just one year ago, we have seen that hope transform into action.
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Students celebrating as their origami structure withholds lots of weight from books and a steal structure

New Grant Brings Steel Appeal to UMD Design Studios

The University of Maryland’s architecture program has been awarded an inaugural grant from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) to integrate structural steel design methods into its undergraduate and graduate design studios. The four-year, $110,000 grant will help deliver new teaching...
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Rachel Goldstein and Marccus Hendricks by the Potomac Water spillage in Washington DC.

DC’s Sewage Spill is a Harbinger to Troubled Waters, Says Hendricks

In the history of U.S. sewage spills, none has evoked a region’s collective “ick” reflex like the massive outburst of effluent into the Potomac River when a 6-foot-wide pipe broke on Jan. 19 upstream from Washington, D.C. By the time the rupture was fixed, enough raw wastewater had gushed out to fil...
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Forward: The University of Maryland Campaign for the Fearless

The largest fundraising campaign in the university’s history aims to elevate interdisciplinary initiatives and build on momentum as a Top 20 public institution. The $2.5 billion initiative advances the university’s vision and values by expanding access to its world-class education, accelerating groundbreaking research, and uniting a global community committed to excellence and a mission to Do Good.

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