UB's design concept for a solar-powered home that draws inspiration from Buffalo's urban gardening movement was among 20 collegiate teams selected to complete in the international Solar Decathlon sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. The story was covered locally as well as nationally.
As the 2014 recipient of the 2014 William R. and June Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban and Regional Planning, Samina Raja recently participated in the Dale Prize Colloquium at Cal Poly Pomona.
The prestigious national honor celebrates Dean Shibley's contributions to design and planning excellence in service to the public, particularly to the City of Buffalo and its surrounding region.
Led by the School of Architecture and Planning, UB students and professors will build a 1,400-square-foot solar-powered home as finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy’s elite Solar Decathlon competition.
The Buffalo News reports that, as part of the national award, Samina Raja, UB professor of urban and regional planning, will spend 20 days at Cal Poly Pamona, meeting with students and speaking at a colloquium on food systems planning.
An article in the Buffalo News reports Dennis Maher and Joyce Hwang, faculty members in the School of Architecture and Planning, have each received $7,000 grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Joyce Hwang, whose eco-sculptures provide habitat for bats and birds and call attention to misunderstood or ignored ecological conditions, has received a 2014 Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York, one of the most coveted awards in the field.
Urban planning faculty members Daniel Hess and Hiroaki Hata, along with professor and department chair Ernest Sternberg, recently published their collaborative exploration of issues of urban and suburban vitality through the lens of pedestrian pathways in neighborhoods.
With help from the Center for Urban Studies, a group of Buffalo eighth-graders earned a top 5 showing in the annual Future City Competition, which asks children across the country to plan a futuristic metropolis.
Read more about the groundbreaking research being conducted by the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab in The Spectrum, UB's independent student newspaper.
Sean Burkholder, assistant professor of architecture, discusses his investigation of the Great Lakes region and "Designing Dredge," a competition he's launching to reimagine Toledo's riverfront dredge.
A study by Robert Silverman, associate professor of urban and regional planning, examines affordable housing development strategies that address gentrification trends in cities like Buffalo and Detroit. The research is funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Sustainable Communities Research Grant Program. Read UB's news release on Silverman's research