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The University of Florida International Center (UFIC) has awarded Zhong-Ren Peng, Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, with the International Educator of the Year Award in the Senior Faculty category. This award recognizes outstanding contributions of UF faculty and staff to the internationalization of the University of Florida, and the impact of those […]

As part of the U.S. Department of Energy EERE International’s South Africa Clean Energy Project, Construction Management Assistant Professor Ravi Srinivasan co-led the energy modeling project titled, “Energy Modeling Project for the Development of Energy Performance Levels in Buildings in the Republic of South Africa.” The methodology for this project was developed by the Working

Students and faculty in the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning recently toured the Harvey Sharron Bat Cave Field Laboratory, with Jason Meneely, Associate Professor from the Department of Interior Design, serving as a guide from his expertise in cave exploration. Caves are a unique and sensitive geologic feature that can be accessed in parts

The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) awarded Lee-Su Huang, Mark McGlothlin, Kristin Nelson and Lisa Huang (not pictured), from the UF School of Architecture, with the honorable Service Member Patriot Award. The four faculty members were nominated by Ken Cobb, an architecture student that was deployed last spring. Faculty members worked with

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — The University of Florida Historic Preservation Program announced today that former UF faculty member Herschel Shepard will receive the 2016 Beinecke-Reeves Distinguished Achievement Award and Flagler College Director of Historic Preservation and Special Initiatives Leslee Keys will receive the inaugural UF Historic Preservation Distinguished Alumni Award. The awards ceremony will take

Students and faculty in the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning volunteered in two post-disaster debris cleanups following the recent hurricanes on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. The cleanup following Hurricane Hermine was in Cedar Key, and in coordination with the city’s International Coastal Cleanup event. Along with DCP students and faculty, many volunteers across

Organized by DCP doctoral students, the Ethics and the Built Environment Symposium aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between ethics and the built environment, especially within the rapid pace of cultural and technological production, agricultural challenges, and climate change in our contemporary world; to promote the consideration of ethics in the production

Acclaimed architect Alfred Browning Parker, B.Arch. 1939, who passed away in 2011, would have turned 100 on September 24, 2016. Randolph C. Henning, B.Des 1976, wanted to recognize and celebrate Parker’s legacy by curating an exhibition for Florida’s most respected and revered architect. The Discipline of Nature: Architect Alfred Browning Parker in Florida exhibition on