Community & Regional Planning News

During the 2024 spring semester, College of Architecture students re-imagine the Lincoln Indian Center as a native retreat aiming to help uplift the urban indigenous community of Lincoln and Omaha.

Supported with $1 million in federal funds awarded via Nebraska’s Department of Economic Development, Husker community and regional planning experts are developing long-term recovery and resilience strategies for communities hardest-hit by historic 2019 flooding.

The expansion of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s iconic Architecture Hall will honor a longstanding collaboration with HDR, an Omaha-based architecture/engineering firm.

Andy Hong, nationally renowned, age-friendly infrastructure scholar and director of the Healthy Aging and Resilient Places Lab at the University of Utah, will be giving the next Hyde Lecture entitled “Resilient Places for Healthy Aging,” at 4 p.m., March 4, at Richards Hall, room 15.

More than 6,800 University of Nebraska–Lincoln students have been named to the Deans’ List for the fall semester of the 2023-24 academic year, 163 were from the College of Architecture. Qualification for the Deans’ List varies among the eight undergraduate colleges and the Explore Center. To qualify for the Deans’ List, College of Architecture students must earn a 3.75 GPA.

In the past 100 years, Nebraska has seen significant loss of its natural resources from tallgrass prairies to wetlands. In fact, according to the Nebraska Game and Parks, 98 percent of the tallgrass prairies and 35 percent of wetlands have been lost, primarily due to conversion to cropland or construction activities.

More than 6,400 University of Nebraska–Lincoln students have been named to the Deans’ List for the spring semester of the 2022-23 academic year, 178 were from the College of Architecture.

Qualification for the Deans’ List varies among the eight undergraduate colleges and the Explore Center.  

More than 6,900 University of Nebraska–Lincoln students have been named to the Deans’ List for the fall semester of the 2022-23 academic year, 177 were from the College of Architecture.

Qualification for the Deans’ List varies among the eight undergraduate colleges and the Explore Center.  

Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg has been named the new dean of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s College of Architecture.

Van Den Wymelenberg will officially assume the position Jan. 5, pending approval by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. Katherine Ankerson, executive vice chancellor, made the announcement on Oct. 24.