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The historic red brick warehouses at West 126th St. and Amsterdam Avenue in West Harlem have been many things over their lifetime. For their first century, they were the epicenter of New York City’s burgeoning beer industry, until Prohibition officers dumped their contents into Harlem sewers in 1923.

By Katherine Shaver Could images of plants, waterfalls and other nature scenes outside hospital room windows help patients recover more quickly? Do specific sounds and the feel of a building’s materials improve people's focus?

A dynamic entertainment corridor adjacent to the future home of the Washington Commanders proposes a new destination for D.C., and earned six graduate students from the University of Maryland’s Real Estate Development Program first place in the National Association for Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP) DC l MD 2026 Capital Challenge.

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This article was originally published in Maryland Today. Written by: Alyssa Ryan

UMD’s long-running program that engages students in real-world projects to “Do Good” for Maryland communities will now do more. The Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS) is one of six campus programs selected to receive funding as part of UMD’s inaugural Do Good Campus Signature Initiatives.

The University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation will launch a new artificial intelligence in architecture minor in Fall 2026.

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University of Maryland urban planning Associate Professor Marccus Hendricks has been named to the Harvard Radcliffe Institute 2026-27 class of fellows.

Associate Professor Joseph Williams has delivered hundreds of lessons at the University of Maryland, but only once was he the one who got schooled. The historian had just finished a lecture on medieval architecture when one of his students approached him to graciously correct a reference he’d made to Orthodox Christian liturgy.

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Written by Sala Levin '10, originally published in Maryland Today.The 7.5-foot-tall bronze likeness of Frederick Douglass is about to move from his perch overlooking Hornbake Plaza. But he won't go far: just about 15 feet from his usual spot. And it won’t be for long: three to four weeks while he and his granite base get spruced up.