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Michele Lamprakos

Michele Lamprakos Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Associate Professor Michele Lamprakos, an architect and historian specializing in the architecture, heritage and urbanism of the Arab-Islamic world, has earned a 2023 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to forward her second book, Memento Mauri: The Afterlife of the Great Mosqu...
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UMD Sparks Partnership with Pepco on Green Projects

An overgrown alleyway blooms into an oasis for walkers and cyclists, city parks shed creeping invasive species and solar lighting illuminates neighborhood pathways. These are among the 11 projects set to receive a portion of $125,000 from Pepco and the University of Maryland’s Sustainable Maryland p...
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New Graduate Award Honors Trailblazer in Affordable Housing Movement

A commitment by the national non-profit Neighborhood Development Collaborative will fund a new award recognizing outstanding graduate students from the University of Maryland’s Master of Real Estate Development Program pursuing work in community development or affordable housing. The Robert J. Corle...
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Students a City's Narrative Through a Camera Lens

As University of Maryland architecture student Elena Poll walked through Havana, Cuba’s, stately capitol building, what struck her wasn’t the marble halls or its majestic dome, but what she saw in its shadow: faded, pastel facades of once glorious Spanish-style buildings, now crumbling in ruin.The p...
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Study Finds Neighborhood Features Impact Mental and Physical Health for Better or Worse

Written by Allison Eatough ’97A new University of Maryland study co-authored by Associate Professor Ming Hu indicates that sidewalks, single-lane roads and street signs could all be part of the path to a community’s mental and physical health, for better or worse. Published in the International Jou...
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Maria Day-Marshall Appointed Director of UMD’s Real Estate Development Program

The University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation welcomes Dr. Maria Day-Marshall, a 30-year veteran of housing policy, government and finance, as the new director of the school’s Real Estate Development Program [MRED]. Day-Marshall was most recently the interim executiv...
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Putting the “Quadruple Bottom Line” to Work: Marcus Ervin (MRED '09)

The first course Marcus Ervin took in real estate development, he nearly failed. An undergraduate architecture student at Morgan State University, Marcus took the course in hopes of parlaying the knowledge into a side job in the industry to earn some additional income. It was more than he expected. ...
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UMD Team Wins NAIOP Regional Real Estate Competition

A team of four graduate students from the University of Maryland’s Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development has won first place in the NAIOP DC l MD 2021 Capital Challenge, an intercollegiate real estate competition for the Washington, D.C. area. UMD’s development strategy for a high-profile prop...
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Colvin Institute's Capstone Competition

Eleven MRED (Masters of Real Estate Development) students presented their fall 2018 capstone projects on December 16, to a jury of real estate professionals from around the area, as they competed for the Colvin Institute’s first place cash prize of $1,000.Congratulations to Catherine Ryckman, first ...
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Third Annual Colvin Case Study Challenge

UMD Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development Announces Winners in Third Annual Colvin Case Study Team of undergrads wins top prize for first time The UMD Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development awarded a group of undergraduate students in real estate development from Penn State University the...
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