Priced Out: New UMD Study Shows the Cost of D.C.’s Short-Term Rental Market
n October, the D.C. City Council pushed through a long-anticipated bill that sets rules for the city’s burgeoning and previously unregulated short-term rental (STR) market. The law will change the way services like Airbnb and HomeAway do business in the District and, according to a new study out of ...
UMD to Participate in U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2017
Terps return to the competition arena to defend two-time winning streak.The U.S. Department of Energy has named the University of Maryland one of 16 collegiate teams to participate in the prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2017. The international competition, held biannually since...
Maryland Architecture Students Honored at the 2016 AIA UNBUILT Awards
Two current M.Arch students have been recognized for design excellence at this year’s 2016 UNBUILT Awards, presented by the Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA|DC). Thuy Do and Haomin Yang won an Award of Merit for “Navy Yard Waterfront Vessel (The Vessel),” the result of...
UMD Names Dr. Sonia Hirt New Dean of MAPP
The University of Maryland today announced the appointment of Dr. Sonia A. Hirt as dean of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Dr. Hirt will officially assume her new role on October 1, 2016.“Dr. Hirt’s leadership skills and more than a decade of experience teaching and researchin...
UMD Leads 2015 Regional Design Awards
Architecture program wins big at AIA Maryland Design Awards and AIA Baltimore’s B-More Resilient CompetitionStudents from the University of Maryland’s Architecture program put on a tremendous showing this year at two regional design forums, The AIA Maryland 2015 Excellence in Design awards and the A...
UMD Joins NCARB’s IPAL Initiative
The National Council of Architecture Registration Boards (NCARB) has accepted the University of Maryland’s architecture program into the Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL) initiative. By blending experience and examination into the curricula, the initiative will provide students with ...
UMD Announces New Dual Master’s Degree in Real Estate Development and Business Administration
The University of Maryland College Park has approved the establishment of a Dual Degree Program for the Master of Real Estate Development and the Master of Business Administration. Proposed last fall by Dean David Cronrath and Alexander Triantis, Dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business, the d...
Spring Studio with Iraqi University Aims to “Bridge the Gap”
Gensler-UMD partnership will pair students from UMD and Al-Nahrain University in first-ever architecture international design studioThis spring, a cross-cultural studio will connect students from seemingly different ways of life to discover how much they actually have in common. “Bridging the Gap,” ...
UMD Study: “Targeted” Housing Policy the Key to Preventing Transit-Induced Gentrification
Researchers at the University of Maryland’s National Center for Smart Growth have leveraged an innovative land use model to predict how different policies surrounding Transit Oriented Development, or TOD, will affect housing, gentrification and opportunity in the Washington, D.C. region. The study, ...
Studio Brings the “Heart of Campus” to Center Field
For years, the University of Maryland community has recognized the campus’ iconic McKeldin Mall as the “heart of campus.” Geographically, however, one would need to look north, to UMD’s Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium, home to the Terp baseball team. This topographical reality represents a larger disconn...