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2024 Architectural Education Awards Mohammad Gharipour

Mohammad Gharipour Receives 2024 Architectural Education Award

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) has announced Mohammad Gharipour, the director of the Architecture Program, as a 2024 Architectural Education Awards recipient. The national awards honor architectural educators' exemplary work in building design, community collaborations,...
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ULI Hines project rendering for "The Cascades"

UMD Team Advances to Final Four in 2024 ULI Hines Competition!

The University of Maryland College Park team advances to the final four in the 2024 ULI Hines Student Urban Design Competition with its entry, "The Cascades," a $1.76 Billion, forward-thinking metropolitan revitalization project that revolutionizes an existing community in Downtown Seattle from busi...
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Michael Ezban and Brittany Williams

Michael Ezban and Brittany Williams Promoted to Associate Clinical Professors

Michael Ezban and Brittany Williams have been promoted to associate clinical professors by the University of Maryland's Architecture Program. As practicing educators in the field, both professors have used their expertise to expand the architecture curriculum through their coursework and professiona...
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Joe Kunkel and a Native American Housing

Joseph Kunkel: Highlighting Native History, Policy and Design

The Architecture Program opened its first Spring 2024 lecture series with architecture alum Joseph Kunkel (M.ARCH ’09) on Wednesday, February 7. His lecture, “Designing with Dignity: Policy, Advocacy, and the Art of Architecture,” provided insight on his work in the context of policy and its connect...
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Rendering for the William Edmondson Homesite

Bringing a Southern City’s Buried Black History to Light

This article was originally published in Maryland Today.A century ago, a self-taught artist by the name of William Edmondson sat in his Nashville backyard, using a railroad spike and a hammer to chisel yard ornaments and sculptures for headstones. He later became the first African American to have a...
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Provost's Do Good Innovator Awards with three faculty headshots

Office of the Provost Announces Do Good Innovator Awardees

The Do Good Institute, in partnership with the Office of the Provost, is proud to recognize 57 incredible UMD staff and faculty with the Provost’s Do Good Innovator Award. Three faculty members from MAPP were honored among the campus community members who create, nurture, expand and amplify social i...
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Importance of Environmental Due Diligence in Development

Lecture by Emily Dyson,Program Manager of Environmental Compliance & Assessments at Environmental Health Consultants (EHC)Join us on Monday, November 3, 2025, from 7 – 8 p.m. for an insightful lecture featuring Emily Dyson, Program Manager of Environmental Compliance & Assessments at Environ...
November 3, 2025
November 3, 2025
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2020 (July)

Cambridge Residential Stewardship Initiative II

Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay ProgramThe Nanticoke Watershed Alliance received funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to complete a second phase of work in Cambridge, Maryland. The first project, funded by NFWF in 2016, determined the willingness of residential property owners to learn about and install stormwater best management practices (BMPs) on their properties. Phase I was a success with ten residential BMP installations now in place as a result of the effort.
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Boat on water
2013 (July)

Calvert County, Maryland Water Quality Financing Strategy

The final report summarizes a technical support project implemented by the Environmental Finance Center at the University of Maryland (EFC), in partnership with Main Street Economics, on behalf of the Calvert County, Maryland government. Through the support of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the EFC developed a strategy to improve the capacity of Calvert County to implement water quality restoration and protection projects and practices through the use of more flexible and sustainable financing processes.Attachments
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Terraplan is the University of Maryland’s new student-run planning publication, which celebrates the creativity and research of students in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. 

The inaugural issue is themed “Our Nature.”

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