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Faculty Research

Home Our Work Faculty Research

Our faculty research tackles challenges in transportation, housing, water quality, heritage preservation, building tech and the most pressing challenges of our built environment. 

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Study Finds Dangerous Bacteria in Homes Plagued by Sewage Backups

UMD Research Changes Lives: Team Studying Connections Between Failing Infrastructure, Health Problems

Learn about dangerous bacteria in homes
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UMD AI Study Examines Transit’s Impact on Rising Rents

UMD AI Study Aims to Ensure Transit Options Don’t Create One-Way Ticket to Rising Rents

Learn how the system will pinpoint likely sites of tenant displacement
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Historic Jail Rehabilitation

Multimillion-dollar Investment Will Transform Ellicott City Jail into Research and Education Hub

Learn how Ellicott City's Jail will be rehabilitated
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New Exhibit Uncovers a Buried History

Culmination of Student Work, Stemming from Ongoing Faculty and Student Research, Documents Stabiae’s Villa Arianna

Uncover the documentations from Stabiae
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In U.S., the Journey to School Can Be Uphill—Both Ways

Urban Planner Ariel Bierbaum Unpacks Growing Transportation Crisis in Public Education

Learn how this research changes lives
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Homeownership Increasingly Out of Reach

State-Commissioned Study Indicates Housing Costs, Availability at Crisis Levels

Read how Homeownership is increasingly out of reach for Marylanders
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