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Stormwater Hits D.C.’s Poorest Neighborhoods Hardest, UMD Study Finds
A new University of Maryland study suggests that Washington, D.C.’s most socioeconomically vulnerable neighborhoods are less equipped to handle runoff from heavy rainfalls made more frequent by climate change.
Mike Binder’s Regenerative Career
For Associate Clinical Professor Mike Binder (M.Arch ‘06), teaching architecture wasn’t rocket science. He knows, because he did that—in a former life at NASA before scratching an itch to leverage his science mind to propel sustainable, regenerative design.
Pomp and Circumstance
If there was ever a group of students more deserving—and ready—to walk across a commencement stage, it was the class of 2024.
‘Exhausted’ by the Car Commute? You Might Like a Bike
The story originally appeared in Maryland Today.
Can College Park Become a 15-Minute City?
A doctor’s office, grocery store or part-time job is just a quick walk or bike ride away for most University of Maryland students. But, for many people who live and work in other communities in College Park, running errands without a car is stalled.
Whose ‘Right to Suburbia’?
This article originally appeared in Maryland Today.
Graduate Student Awarded Boren Fellowship by the National Security Education Program
A University of Maryland graduate student in information management and community planning is among 102 recipients nationwide to earn the David L. Boren Fellowship to study critical languages overseas.
New Exhibit Uncovers a Buried History
In the summer of 2006, University of Maryland Professor Emeritus Lindley Vann and 19 architecture students traveled to the Bay of Naples to explore an ancient city, lost in ash. Over the next 20 years, factions of students returned each summer to participate in a global effort to excavate and document one of the last surviving Italian villas that once catered to the Roman elite.
Take This Class (Summer Edition!): The Secret Life of Buildings
This story originally appeared in Maryland Today.
Beaux Arts Restart
Alums of a certain age look back on the Architecture Building’s Great Space as the setting for countless studio hours, lectures, thesis and even graduations—but also for its wild transformation each spring to a 1920s speakeasy, the streets of New York City or a star-studded Hawaiian luau.
MASS Design’s Alan Ricks Joins UMD as 68th Kea Professor
Alan Ricks, AIA, Int FRIBA, the founding principal and co-executive director of MASS design group, joins the University of Maryland this fall as the Architecture Program’s 2025-26 Kea Professor.
Mitigation of Water-related Risks in Vulnerable Communities
Resilience and Mitigation of Water-related Risks in Vulnerable Communities: Sharing Collaborative Approaches and ExperiencesThe main goal is to develop a community-driven, spatially informed framework for adaptive flood management that enhances resilience and flood risk adaptation for disadvantaged communities in the U.S.