Five MAPP Faculty Awarded University Funding to Tackle “Grand Challenges” of Our Time
Efforts to address global water issues, combat urban inequity, respond to environmental contamination and close the digital divide will receive new funding as part of the largest comprehensive grant program in University of Maryland’s history. The Grand Challenges Grants Program, an unprecedented $3...
New Podcast Looks to Build Optimism for an Uncertain World
When Clinical Associate Professor Julie Gabrielli landed her first job out of graduate school, she was eager to put the big, sustainably minded ideas cultivated during school into practice. But the practice had other plans.“Firm life is intensely practical, and client focused,” she said. “Back then,...
Marccus Hendricks Joins White House Council on Environmental Quality
The White House Council on Environmental Quality has tapped Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Marccus Hendricks, to serve as a Senior Advisor for Climate and Community Resilience on the inaugural Environmental Justice team. A one-year appointment through the Executive Office of the ...
A Worthy Charge
There’s a statistic in the architecture world that Lakisha Woods thinks deserves more attention. It’s not related to community development, sustainable practice or green design—but rather, who’s doing it. Although 51% of architecture students are women, they comprise only 17% of all registered archi...
UMD Survey Indicates ‘New Normal’ for Maryland’s Daily Commute
This story originally appeared in Maryland TodayWhile most Marylanders continue to work remotely post-pandemic, those who brave the daily commute are overwhelmingly behind the wheel—even when the office is less than a mile away—according to a new University of Maryland survey.Conducted by UMD’s Nati...
UMD Team Makes “Final Four” in HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition
An interdisciplinary team of graduate students from UMD’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation has landed one of four finalist slots in the 2023 HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning (IAH) Competition, beating out interdisciplinary teams from some of the most ...
UMD Team Makes “Final Four” in HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition
An interdisciplinary team of graduate students from UMD’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation has landed one of four finalist slots in the ninth annual HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning (IAH) Competition 2022, beating out 28 teams from some of the most fo...
UMD Team Takes First Place in Affordable Housing Design Competition
A dynamic second act for the largest performance hall in the Southeastern United States earned a team of University of Maryland graduate students top honors—and a $20,000 first-place prize—in the ninth annual Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition sponsored by the U...
EFC Director Honored at 2023 Maryland Research Excellence Celebration
More than 200 University of Maryland faculty scholars and researchers were honored on March 28 at the 2023 Maryland Research Excellence Celebration.The event, held at the Hotel at the University of Maryland and co-hosted by Senior Vice President and Provost Jennifer King Rice and Vice President for ...
Rents Already Rising Along Purple Line, UMD Study Finds
Trains on Maryland’s Purple Line won’t begin service for at least another two years, but according to a new University of Maryland study, some residents living along the future transit corridor began seeing spikes in rent just after construction shovels broke ground.Published this month in Internati...