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Area landfills conjure up so many negative feelings for a lot of people, the odor, the litter, it’s no wonder so many communities are struggling to find new site locations for their landfills.

In first place, the College of Architecture’s Master of Science in Architecture with specialization in Interior Design (MSID) program is named among the Nine Best Online Master’s in Interior Design Degree Programs by BestValueSchools.org.

Nearly 6,800 University of Nebraska–Lincoln students have been named to the Deans’ List for the spring semester and 180 College of Architecture students were among them. To qualify for the Deans’ List, College of Architecture students must rank in the top 10%. Please help us congratulate these students on their amazing academic achievements.

The College of Architecture is proud to announce this year’s PAC Prize Winners. First prize goes to Quinlan McFadden and Jamie Schacher for their project “Neighbor-Type.” Finalists are Caroline Goertz and Trey Erwin for “Arbormartville” and Alex Regier, Trey Erwin, Wyatt Gosnell and Nick Olsen for “Perpetuate.” This award celebrates the excellence that emerges from a collaborative process.

The United States is facing a housing crisis, and it’s affecting potential home buyers and renters across the income spectrum. One needs to look no further than their own backyard to see the effects of this. From urban to rural, Nebraskan’s have endured an ongoing housing shortage that has hit low-income Americans particularly hard.

The time it takes to earn a master’s degree in community and regional planning has just gotten shorter for many UNL Environmental Studies majors.

Douglas Bisson is the Central Region Urban Planning and Design Principal at HDR, a global engineering, architecture, and planning firm, where he specializes in urban design and redevelopment.

With deep expertise in both architecture and interior design, Dean Katherine Ankerson has been named 2021 Chair of the Board of Directors for the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA). Ankerson has had a long history of volunteering for CIDA starting in 2010 as a site accreditation visitor and more recently named to their Board of Directors in 2017.

A team of researchers from three University of Nebraska institutions finished among the top 10 teams in a global competition to develop an artificial intelligence-driven model to advise policymakers on how best to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.

Renown diversity and design equity advocate Kia Weatherspoon, president of Determined by Design, joins the College of Architecture for the last Hyde lecture of the spring semester, presenting “Design Without Labels – Design Equity™ Strategies for All People” at 4 p.m., March 5 via Zoom. https://unl.zoom.us/j/93815719141