The 2023 edition of our annual department newsletter is hot off the press! Click here to read about our amazing students, faculty, staff, and alumni, or reach out to the department if you are interested in getting a hard copy.
Read MoreThe City & Metropolitan Planning Department published its Annual Newsletter! CMP shared a snapshot of what they have been up to this past academic year. Read here about the impressive range of work from our students and faculty.
Read MoreThis story originally appeared on U-EPIC website. The 2022 Utah Disaster Resilience Symposium was held on November 10th at the Bailey Gallery of the College of Architecture and Planning Building at the University of Utah, organized by Dr. Divya Chandrasekhar, an Associate Professor in the Department of City & Metropolitan Planning and Associate Director of the […]
Read MoreFinanced by the Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund (SCIF), members of the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) and the U of U Beekeepers Association revamped the U’s water and pollinator conservation garden at the College of Architecture + Planning. Volunteers from the ASUU Enviro Club updated the official Pollinator-Conservation Garden on campus in collaboration […]
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s lawns have a new look—and it comes with a purpose. Green grass is giving way to a brownish-yellow hue as the U plays its part to conserve water amidst our current severe drought. This shift in the appearance of campus is an intentional change, with limited water being prioritized away from […]
Read MoreWith the arrival of spring, Platte Farm Open Space, located in the diverse, working-class neighborhood of Globeville in north Denver, comes alive with native grasses, pollinator gardens that attract bees and butterflies, and wildflowers, such as Mexican hat, asters, poppies, and Gaillardia. “This is a beautiful amenity — a beautiful piece of space that was […]
Read MoreInterested in how light pollution is impacting Utah’s dark skies? Read here to find out what Instructor Vellachi Ganesan had to say to the Daily Herald about this problem.
Read MoreThe W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded $250,000 to the University of Utah to establish a new undergraduate minor in dark sky studies, the first of its kind in the United States. Dark sky studies is an emerging field that explores the impacts of artificial light at night and the loss of our night skies […]
Read MoreThe University of Utah recently approved creation of the Center for Ecological Planning and Design. The new center merges the provisional Ecological Planning Center and the Integrated Technology in Architecture Center — both in the College of Architecture + Planning — in a new partnership with the Global Change and Sustainability Center. The Center for […]
Read MoreCould turning climate change into a game inspire communities to seriously consider climate change risks and what they need to do to adapt? Danya Rumore, who holds a joint appointment at the University of Utah as associate director of the S.J. Quinney College of Law’s Environmental Dispute Resolution Program and as a research assistant professor […]
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