School of Planning, Design and Construction

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  MSU Assistant Professor Wonmin Sohn receives 2020-2021 CELA CLASS Fund Research Grant Award

  Published on March 5, 2021
  Wonmin Sohn received the CELA/CLASS Fund for her project called “Longitudinal Assessment of Development Composition and Spatial Patterns of Green Infrastructure for Effective Flood Control in Growing and Shrinking U.S. Metropolitan Areas.”

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  MSU Assistant Professor Dong Zhao receives prestigious NSF CAREER Award

  Published on February 19, 2021
  Dong Zhao receives $505K NSF CAREER Award to research way to make homes more energy efficient, intelligent, human-centered and sustainable.

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  How the pandemic has made SPDC stronger

  Published on December 11, 2020
  SPDC Director Ming-Han Li shares in his annual school update message, "This has been a year that no one could have anticipated or prepared for! The world has been facing unprecedented, tumultuous challenges from the novel coronavirus pandemic since March."

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  MSU to establish Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Site in sociomobility

  Published on July 8, 2020
  Michigan State University will provide opportunities for a diverse group of talented undergraduate students from across the United States to engage in a wide range of research studies related to “sociomobility” as part of a recently funded grant.

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  A Year of New: Part 2

  Published on January 14, 2020
  A continuation NCI's 2019 year in review focusing on NCI's accomplishments in service and research.

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  MSU receives $1.2M NSF grant to study intelligent social network interventions

  Published on December 13, 2019
  A MSU trans-disciplinary team receives NSF grant to develop a research model of intelligent social network interventions.

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  MSU Interior Design’s Kristy Kellom wins Best Student Design Poster Award at EDRA50

  Published on June 26, 2019
  Kristy Kellom, graduate student in environmental design won the first place for the Environmental Design and Research Association (EDRA) Student Design Poster Award at the EDRA50 conference in Brooklyn, NY, May 22-25, 2019.

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  SPDC students received first-place at MSU’s 21st University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum

  Published on June 24, 2019
  Three students from SPDC received first-place awards in April at MSU’s 21st University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum.

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  MSU received $247K U.S. Forest Service grant to develop tool for cross-laminated timber in commercial building construction

  Published on June 20, 2019
  The MSU Construction Management program was selected by the U.S. Forest Service to develop a construction time and cost estimating tool for use of CLT in commercial building construction.

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  MSU Urban & Regional Planning’s Peilei Fan receives Cross-disciplinary Faculty Research Award from the College of Social Science

  Published on May 2, 2019
  Peilei Fan, associate professor of urban & regional planning, was selected to receive the Cross-disciplinary Faculty Research Award from the MSU College of Social Science. She was recognized for the award on Wednesday, April 24 in the MSU Union Ballroom.

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  MSU Interior Design’s Kristy Kellom received Best Student Poster award from the Environmental Design Research Association

  Published on May 2, 2019
  In June 2018, Kristy Kellom, graduate student in environmental design, also assistant instructor of interior design in the School of Planning, Design and Construction, was awarded the 2018 Best Student Poster award.

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  Urban & Regional Planning alumna Kayla Turner received 2018 Outstanding Senior Award

  Published on February 14, 2019
  Kayla Turner, a recent urban and regional planning alumna, was awarded the 2018 Outstanding Senior Award by the MSU College of Social Science.

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  Landscape Architecture’s Jun-Hyun Kim was selected as a 2019 Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Research Fellow

  Published on February 12, 2019
  Jun-Hyun Kim, PhD, program director and associate professor in MSU’s SPDC’s Landscape Architecture program, was selected as a 2019 Landscape Architecture Foundation Research Fellow of the Case Study Investigation program with funding support.

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  SPDC PhD student Leah Mo earns ESPP’s Summer Fellowship to support her urban environmental data analytics research

  Published on January 17, 2019
  Construction Management PhD student Leah Mo, in the MSU School of Planning, Design and Construction, was selected for the 2017 Environmental Science & Policy Research Summer Fellowship.

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  NCI Year in Review

  Published on January 8, 2019
  2018 Year in Review for the National Charrette Institute.