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Grace Dickerson, senior photography student from Overland Park, is among those receiving an Undergraduate Research Award and scholarship funding from the KU Center for Undergraduate Research.

PORT–the public realm design and planning consultancy co-founded by KU architecture professor Andrew Moddrell–will design a site-responsive installation that will be displayed in one of the country’s most iconic sites for Modern architecture next August.  

A team of students in Chad Kraus’s Dirt Works Studio has advanced to the build phase of the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2023 Solar Decathlon Build Challenge. The students have launched a campaign through KU Endowment’s LaunchKU crowdfunding platform to help fund the project.

Dastmalchi has collaborated with interdisciplinary teams of different sizes to design and build commercial and educational projects. His research focuses on collaborative design thinking and how emerging technologies like Virtual Reality (VR) can influence design communication and process.

In the past 18 years, Machry worked as a design practitioner on several healthcare facility projects. She focuses her research on improving design to ensure better safety, engagement, and cognition outcomes within healthcare environments.

As a researcher and professor at KU, Hong’s goal is to bridge the worlds of design and computing and to ensure KU remains a leader in research and innovation within its design/build studios.

Distinguished alumnus and co-founder of BNIM, Bob Berkebile, FAIA, was awarded the AIA's 2022 Edward C. Kemper Award to recognize a career of leadership and advocacy for ecologically sustainable and socially responsible architectural practice.

This fall, the KU Design Symposium Lecture Series will feature seven multidisciplinary practitioners working on the forefront of human-centered design to illuminate challenges, engage communities, and develop solutions.

Qanats are networks of underground tubes that use gravity to move groundwater from their subterranean hillside sources. Though developed in the 1st millennium BCE, architecture professor Nilou Vakil says in a new book that qanat systems can inform innovative solutions to meet global water demands.

Matt Kleinmann discusses how engaging communities can help solve complex issues, such as climate change, in an op-ed for the Kansas City Star.