NOMAS Mock Interview Night
This event is open to the MAPP and UMD Community onlyNOMAS will be inviting two professionals from the architecture field to help conduct mock interviews. Students will practice interviewing, then receive feedback on how to improve their skills.
February 16, 2026
February 16, 2026
MAPP Fall 2022 Student Project Showcase
Each semester, students from MAPP’s Master of Architecture, Master of Historic Preservation and Master of Real Estate Development Programs culminate their graduate experience at the University of Maryland with one final project. For architecture students, it’s the design thesis, a written and oral p...
Michele Lamprakos Awarded National Humanities Center Fellowship
Written by Dan Novak.Associate Professor Michele Lamprakos has been named a fellow at the National Humanities Center (NHC) for the 2019-2020 academic year. She is one of 37 scholars from institutions in the U.S. and abroad to receive this highly competitive and prestigious award. Lamprakos is one o...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...