Schools & Colleges

Architecture Professor Mohammad Gharipour, Ph.D. will be traveling to Malaysia for a conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, at which he will be chairing the session “Religious Traditions, Religious Spaces” and delivering a talk titled “Challenges of Contemporary Urban Conservation in Isfahan, Iran.” Earlier this semester, Professor Gharipour traveled to Montreal where he gave a talk titled “Continuity and Symbiosis: The Architecture of Iranian Synagogues” at …

Morgan State University President David Wilson today announced the appointment of Gloria J. Gibson, Ph.D. as provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs. “I commend the selection committee for its diligent and exhaustive work to find just the right candidate to fill this vital position, and they did a fine job. Dr. Gibson impressed us as an extraordinary leader,” …

New York City is blessed with magnificent open spaces that accommodate many different types of traditional recreation: you can fly a kite, play ball, picnic, stroll. But the best way to determine what kinds of uses should go where, to design and plan our landscapes of play, might not always be from the top down. After all, the wide-ranging interests …

Morgan Graduate student Jonathan Midgett (M.Arch. ’16, expected) won the top student prize for AIA Baltimore’s annual photography context, announced last Tuesday at an evening event held to celebrate the photography of Baltimore’s built environment. Jonthan’s photograph “Snow Alley” was submitted under the category “Entryways: The Big Picture,” and was captioned as follows: This shot shows an entryway not really appreciated by many who …

Gabriel Kroiz, Chair of Undergraduate Design and Construction and B.S. in Architecture & Environmental Design student, Adrian James, traveled to Seoul, South Korea where they worked on the light installation “Will You Marry Me?’. The piece utilizes off the shelf lighting fixtures combined with an armature of wood and digitally fabricated steel connectors. Click here for time lapse video of …

Professor Ruth Connell’s lecture presentation on “Architecture 101: Bio-Architecture” at the National Building Museum is now posted on the museum’s website as a podcast with supporting images. http://www.nbm.org/media/audio/bio-architecture.html Bio-architecture demonstrates the growing influence of nature in buildings through the predominance of organic, nature-inspired patterns and shapes. Ruth spoke about Bio-Architecture for the museum in August of this year, exploring the roots of organic design in the work …

After graduating from an all-girls high school, Thomas entered Baltimore’s Morgan State University. As one of just two women majoring in physics, she excelled and her tenacity landed her a job at NASA in 1964 as a data analyst. She rose within the government agency quickly, overseeing the Landsat project in the 1970s. The Landsat satellite was the first to …

Strategic Communication Professor Selected for Project on First Generation College Student Success The Interactivity Foundation (www.interactivityfoundation.org) is proud to announce that Morgan State’s Dr. Laura Dorsey-Elson will be joining us as a panelist in our First Generation Students: Possibilities for Success project.  Given how extensively Morgan State works to enroll, mentor, and graduate first generation students through university studies, we are very excited to …

Sophomore Marvin Oduro was awarded the inaugural Baltimore Architecture Foundation/AIABaltimore Fellows Leadership Award for Architecture and Environmental Design (BSAED) Students. Established in 2014 following the decision of the Fellows’ Committee of AIABaltimore and the Baltimore Architecture Foundation to support Morgan State University’s School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) undergraduate program in Architecture and Environmental Design, candidates for this award are …

The School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) was in full force at this year’s AIABaltimore Excellence in Design Awards on October 10th held at UMBC’s new performing arts building. Several of SA+P students were recognized by the Baltimore Chapter of American Institute of Architecture: Future Architects Resources (FAR) Undergraduate Scholarship Award: Pauline Sipin Honorable Mentions: Christian Cueva and Christine Doherty Future Architects Resources …