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The Million Cool Roofs Challenge is a $2 million global competition to rapidly scale up the deployment of highly solar-reflective “cool” roofs in developing countries suffering heat stress and lacking widespread access to cooling services.

In March, the Center for Hydro-generated Urbanism (CHU) at the University of Florida School of Architecture, together with the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR), held the Puerto Rico Re_Start 3 E: Under Emergency as a virtual platform that gathered the participation of over 80 students, stakeholders, agencies, professionals, consultants, architects, researchers and the UNESCO

With the announcement that the University of Florida would shift all classes online for the remainder of the spring semester due to COVID-19, our faculty and students had to make a quick transition from studio learning to a new method of schoolwork. We put a call out to our faculty to hear, in their own

Architecture professor Charlie Hailey was named the 2020 SEC Faculty Achievement Award Winner for the University of Florida. He is now UF’s nominee for the SEC Professor of the Year Award, which will be announced in late April. Previously, Hailey was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. To read more from the SEC about Hailey, click

By Mia Alfonsi The M.E. Rinker School of Construction Management’s Professional Master of Construction Management (pMCM) enables students to attain something greater. Introduced in the fall of 2019, Rinker’s pMCM program provides students the background and skills needed to propel through their careers and help their employers reach their growth goals. Designed with the corporate

By Chelsea Mistretta As a part of the annual Edward D. Stone, Jr. Lecture Series, Marc Treib, an Architecture Emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a historian and critic of landscape and architecture, spoke about the famous sculptor, Isamu Noguchi. Treib, who received his Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the

University of Florida students from the College of Design, Construction and Planning and the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

Over five hundred UF nursing students and faculty, nurses, health professionals and others interested in learning more about healthcare