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This article originally appeared on Maryland Today.When Amelia Twyman turned 18 last year, an unexpected birthday card arrived in her mailbox from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: an invitation to register to vote.

Award-winning architect Nader Tehrani joins the architecture faculty this fall as the 2024-25 Kea Professor.

The University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation announced the promotions of five faculty members in the Architecture and Historic Preservation Programs, effective Fall 2024.

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The University of Maryland’s Architecture Program welcomes three new faculty for the 2024-2025 academic year. Dr. Andressa Martinez, Dr. Michael Kleiss, and Dr. Deok-Oh Woo will offer a broad range of expertise in architecture specializations including digital design processes and fabrication, structures and building technologies.

Jenn Tran admits that her favorite childhood memory of Eden Center, a strip of Vietnamese shops in Falls Church, Va., is controversial. Of the many snacks offered at the grocery store where she shopped each week with her mother, she always beelined to durian, the spiky fruit revered for its creamy, mango-like pulp and reviled for its stinky smell.

Visitors pointing their phones at the unassuming log cabin tucked along a wooded road in Olney, Md., may see a 19th-century wash basin still wet with laundry just outside the back door, chickens roaming around a wooden coop or a neighboring log cabin just yards away.

Twenty-three years ago, architect Bill Spack ‘82 was tapped for an unusual assignment: Accompany Arlington County historic preservationists to a derelict m

Urban planning, public health, and nature are intricately connected. Studies show that exposure to natural environments can reduce stress, improve mental health, increase social cohesion, and promote physical activity – all of which can attribute to positive health outcomes.

The Mispillion River and Cedar Creeks drain to the Delaware Bay in Kent and Sussex County Delaware. The vast marshes connecting them are part of an international flyway for migrating birds and a horseshoe crab sanctuary, which brings tourist dollars to the area and secures land value for residents.

“We know that landscape architects design nature-based solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises. But how they do that is key: they design them to be even more effective and inclusive and to provide even greater benefits.”

The Small Business Anti-Displacement Network (SBAN) has awarded grants to six organizations to conduct case studies of their community ownership efforts in Los Angeles, Miami-Ft.