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Tue, 04/21/2026 - 12:00

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

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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

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 12:00

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.

Thu, 04/16/2026 - 12:00

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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A graduate student pitching an ArchiNova project on the Chesapeake Bay modular vegetation wall.

Wed, 04/08/2026 - 12:00

In Student ‘Shark Tank’ Competition, Creativity Is in the Water

With its tree-lined sidewalks, carpet-like quads and manicured flowerbeds, the archetypical college campus isn’t thirsty for scenery. But its scenery is thirsty all the time, gulping millions of gallons of water a year to keep up appearances. A pitch for a modular vegetation wall that could keep uni...

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Aerial shot and map of an urban lacunarity, through satellite images

Urban Lacunarity: Multiscale Analysis of Texture Patterns Through Satellite Images

1 - 3 p.m.

This event is open to the UMD and MAPP community.Dr. Mauro Normando Macêdo Barros FilhoUrban Planner, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Campina Grande (Brazil) About the workshop:Lacunarity is a property of fractals that helps analyze the distribution of gaps within spatial structures...

2026-04-20T12:00:00

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A little girl dressed for the White House egg roll, holding a boys hand, in front of the White House

Thu, 04/02/2026 - 12:00

When Easter Eggs Roll at the White House, a UMD Alum Scrambles

Written by Katherine ShaverThe thousands of children and their families planning to descend on the White House grounds on Monday for the annual Easter Egg Roll will find plenty of brightly colored eggs—and become part of a University of Maryland alum’s running history of the 148-year-old spring trad...

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Wed, 04/01/2026 - 12:00

Kathryn Howell Receives 2026 Best Article in the Journal of Urban Affairs Award

University of Maryland National Center for Smart Growth Director Kathryn Howell has earned a 2026 Best Article in the Journal of Urban Affairs Award for her paper, “A data feminist approach to urban data practice: Tenant power through eviction data,” one of two papers recognized nationally for its o...

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