The School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning will hold an Open House for all admitted Graduate Students on Friday, April 4th, 2014. Further details to follow.
Bill Bonstra, FAIA (B.ARCH ’83) has spent his career as an architect seeking to enrich people’s lives through thoughtful design, a philosophy he has extended to his relationship with the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation for over 30 years. This past month, Bonstra, who has supported the school over the years financially and as an advisor, mentor and teacher, pledged a $30,000 endowment through UMD’s New TerpStart Matching Scholarship Program.
The National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) has awarded University of Maryland Master of Architecture candidate Valerie Sherry a 2013 University Innovation Fellowship. She is one of 21 students from universities nation-wide accepted to the program this year, and the first University of Maryland student ever to participate. The University Innovation Fellowship is part of a national effort to arm students with the knowledge and expertise to create, innovate and compete in a global economy.
Bostwick House, the historic 18th-century home and site located in Bladensburg, Maryland, has served as a “living classroom” for the University’s Historic Preservation Graduate Program for more than five years. Now a new website, created by the program, opens the home’s figurative front door to the world.
