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A story in USA Today about how race and class set the stage for the Flint water crisis quotes Henry Louis Taylor, professor of urban and regional planning, who says ugly elements of racism and classism emerged in Flint. This story also appeared in the Detroit Free Press and WKYC.com.

WKYC in Cleveland, Ohio reported on UB climate change researcher Nicholas Rajkovich’s mobile weather station, a bike outfitted with weather monitoring equipment.

The Princeton University Press interviewed UB architecture professor Despina Stratigakos about her new book, “Where are the Women Architects?”

Metropolis, a popular architecture and design magazine, carried an article by Despina Stratigakos, interim chair of architecture, on “the attrition problem” — the fact that women leave the architecture profession in large numbers despite their healthy representation in architecture schools. Just 19 percent of registered architects today are women, while women represent 44 percent of architecture students, she writes. Stratigakos’ book, Where Are the Women Architects?, will be published by Princeton University Press in April.

An article describes how students and faculty from UB's School of Architecture and Planning are helping Buffalo-based Harmac Medical Products develop Bailey Green, a plan to invest in the neighborhood surrounding its business. “These are low-level investments that don’t need much capital and can be done in a year or two. It’s called tactical urbanism,” said Vivek Thanumalayan, who worked on the plan as a student and continues to work on it as a project designer at UB.

An article on Next City reports on research by Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, who equipped a bike with 50 pounds of research-grade weather equipment to turn it into a mobile weather station in order to learn more about urban heat islands in Cleveland. “If you could start to correlate having trees with increased temperatures, or certain types of pavement with increased temperatures, you can start to write policies about what you want to do in the city to reduce the urban heat island effect,” he said.

An article on Fast Company’s Co.Exist reports on research by Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, who equipped a bike with 50 pounds of research-grade weather equipment to turn it into a mobile weather station in order to learn more about urban heat islands in Cleveland. “Typically when you see a weather report, it’s from the airport where the main weather station is at,” he says. “It gives you a good idea of what’s going on at the regional scale. But it doesn’t let you know what’s happening in particular low-income neighborhoods, where they have less tree cover and a lot more asphalt than some of the higher-income neighborhoods.”

A story on WIVB-TV about rising prices in the grocery store, even as gas prices decline at the pump, interviews Jennifer Whittaker and Kelley Mosher, both in the School of Architecture and Planning’s Food Systems Planning and Health Communities Lab. “Historically, food prices are actually going down,” Whittaker said. “But recently, they’re going up across the country, primarily because of environmental stresses, but also disease because our food system is very interconnected across the country.”

An article on Canada’s Trend Hunter reports on the research-grade weather station that Nicholas Rajkovich, assistant professor of architecture, installed on a bicycle to gather very localized microclimate data that can help explain how tree cover in neighborhoods contributes to air and ground temperature variations, findings that could in turn prove valuable to urban planners.