School of Planning, Design and Construction

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  Landscape architecture student looks to make a difference through environmental design

  Published on September 23, 2021
  Undergraduate Anhad Viswanath is inspired by creating outdoor settings that enable people to engage with their natural surroundings.

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  SPDC welcomes Harry Shah as new Teaching Specialist in Construction Management

  Published on September 21, 2021
  CM Alumnus Joins the CM Teaching Staff

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  SPDC welcomes Deyanira Nevárez Martínez as Assistant Professor in the Urban & Regional Planning Program

  Published on September 21, 2021
  New faculty member brings focus on housing, racial equity and Chicano/Latino studies to URP.

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  NCI worked with the City of Houghton to become “Charrette Ready”

  Published on August 27, 2021
  The Charrette Ready Workshop invites residents into the planning stage of the charrette development, engaging members of the community in inclusive charrettes.

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  Dr. Linda Nubani receives Chief of Police Award of Excellence from the Lansing Police Department

  Published on August 10, 2021
  SPDC’s Linda Nubani is recognized for increasing the collaboration between police and community.

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  Noah Durst, assistant professor in the Urban and Regional Planning program, receives NSF grant to map informal and alternative housing in the U.S.

  Published on July 16, 2021
  SPDC faculty proposal “Mapping Informal and Alternative Housing in the United States: A Big Data Approach for Examining Spatial Inequality” was selected to receive a NSF grant of $359,208

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  Interior design senior student capstone showcase in immersive virtual reality platform

  Published on July 15, 2021
  SPDC’s Linda Nubani designed and hosted the first-ever virtual reality platform for her interior design senior student capstone presentations, a pandemic-inspired innovation that reached an international audience.

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  MSU receives funds from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme to conduct eMOTIONAL Cities research

  Published on July 14, 2021
  SPDC faculty leads effort on a project to improve health and well-being through the design of urban spaces, with a team of four MSU faculty representing the U.S. component of an international consortium

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  Jun-Hyun Kim, associate professor and LA program director receives multiple awards

  Published on July 8, 2021
  Jun-Hyun Kim, associate professor and program director of the LA Program and the MED Program in SPDC was recently awarded three honors from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architects (CELA)

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  MSU’s Michigan Water School receives $100K grant from Erb Family Foundation to partner with the National Charrette Institute

  Published on June 24, 2021
  Water School helps local and state officials and others increase their knowledge about water management and gain access to tools and resources to help impact their local economy.

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  Wonmin Sohn, Assistant professor at MSU Landscape Architecture, receives $326K HUD grant for “Development of Comprehensive Climate Vulnerability Resilience Capacity Indexes for Enhancing Urban Recovery in Midwestern Communities”

  Published on June 23, 2021
  The project output will contribute to an effective allocation of limited recovery funding, ensuring that the most damaged communities and those lagging in recovery will receive what is needed.

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  CANR Alumni Association announces 2021 scholarship recipients

  Published on June 23, 2021
  The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Alumni Association awards scholarships to students who are well-rounded in their academic and non-academic pursuits and have a vision for their future career.

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  Landscape Architecture senior receives $2K grant from the CANR Undergraduate Research Program to support research on Designing Decline

  Published on June 21, 2021
  Brooke Shevela, a senior majoring in Landscape Architecture at the MSU School of Planning, Design and Construction, received a $2,000 grant from the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Undergraduate Research Program fund.

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  MSU receives $748K NASA grant to study globalization, urbanization and land use changes in Southeast Asia

  Published on June 16, 2021
  MSU Urban & Regional Planning program was selected by NASA to examine globalization, urbanization, land and environment changes in Southeast Asia.

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  Landscape architecture student combines science with design

  Published on May 18, 2021
  Student Claire Schleusener is interested in creating ecologically stable spaces help support connections with the natural world.