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Robert M. Beckley, FAIA Returning as the Fall 2008 Charles Moore Visiting Professor

Robert M. Beckley, FAIA will serve as the Fall 2008 Charles Moore Visiting Professor starting in September. He was born in Cleveland Ohio and obtained his professional education in architecture at the University of Cincinnati and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He taught at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Michigan before moving to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he helped the university establish a new school of architecture and urban planning in 1969.

Gary L. Skog, FAIA Wins 2008 AIA Gold Award

Cameron Weimar Wins Two-Year Energy Fellowship

Cameron Weimar, URP Ph.D. candidate in land use and energy systems planning, is the recipient of a 2008 MMPEI-Rackham Energy Fellowhips Award, a two-year fellowship from the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute (MMPEI). This is the 2nd year of the cross-disciplinary fellowship program based at U-M School of Engineering.

Robert Fishman and America's Crumbling Infrastructure

National Public Radio's Weekend Edition had a month-long series this June focusing on the state of America's infrastructure. Historian Robert Fishman of the University of Michigan has written extensively about the role national planning played in shaping the United States' development and he joined the discussion. Listen to the interview on NPR here.

U-M's New Sleep Research Center

The University of Michigan has opened one of the world's first laboratories to study the impact of sleep and biological rhythms on depression, substance abuse and mental well-being.

The center's lighting system was designed by Mojtaba Navvab, an illumination expert and U-M associate professor at the Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning.

Kevin D. Shultis, AIA Wins 2008 Robert F. Hastings Award

Kristen A. G. Schleick, AIA, AICP Wins 2008 Young Architect Award

TCAUP Has a Second Winning Team in the EPA P3

The team, the UP 634 Dustbusters, will use the award from EPA to implement some of their vegetation strategies to address the problem of particulate pollution in Southwest Detroit. This student team is headed by Larissa Larsen and advised by Eric Dueweke. Congratulations to Will Brodnax, Mark Hansford, Tyler Kinley, Carolyn Pivirotto, Shiply Singh, Jeff Storrar, Benjamin Stupka, Erin Thoresen, Jon VanDerZee.