The faculty’s signature research area on sustainability, environment, and planning delves into creating resilient environments through innovative strategies like green infrastructure and ecological design to mitigate energy consumption and reduce carbon footprints, particularly in urban settings facing challenges of gentrification and environmental justice. By prioritizing social and environmental justice design principles, faculty advocate for urban revitalization and rural land use planning, promoting transportation alternatives and recreation tourism while enhancing quality of life indicators and fostering community vitality through placemaking and wayfinding initiatives.
Sustainability, Environment, and Planning
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Carlton Basmajian discusses if humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one year later?
Read moreCarlton Basmajian, associate professor of community and regional planning, urban design, envisions how the world would appears if humans went extinct.
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Finding solutions to the Mississippi River basin’s biggest challenges
Read moreUlrike Passe, professor of architecture and lead of the Sustainable Cities Research Team received a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant from the Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems program to launch a five-year study to address interconnected challenges in the Mississippi River basin.
Christopher J. Seeger
Morrill ProfessorLandscape Architecture
Heidi Hohmann
Associate ProfessorLandscape Architecture
Julie Stevens
Associate ProfessorLandscape Architecture
Michael Martin
Associate ProfessorLandscape Architecture
Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock PhD
Associate ProfessorCommunity and Regional Planning
Austin Dunn
Assistant ProfessorLandscape Architecture
Daniel Neubauer
Associate Teaching ProfessorIndustrial Design
Rob Whitehead FAIA
Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Student SuccessDesign Administration
Andrea Wheeler PhD
Associate ProfessorArchitecture
Julia Badenhope
ProfessorLandscape Architecture
Susan Bradbury PhD
Interim ChairCommunity and Regional Planning
Jennifer Drinkwater
Associate ProfessorArt and Visual Culture
Francis Owusu PhD
ProfessorCommunity and Regional Planning
Carlton Basmajian PhD
Associate ProfessorCommunity and Regional Planning
Vladimir Kulic PhD
ProfessorArchitecture
Chengde Wu PhD
Associate ProfessorArchitecture
Merate Barakat
Associate ProfessorArchitecture
Ingrid Lilligren
University ProfessorArt and Visual Culture
Robert Pfaff PhD
Assistant ProfessorCommunity and Regional Planning
Kotaro Nakamura AIA, LEED AP
ChairInterior Design
Gary Taylor JD, PhD
ProfessorCommunity and Regional Planning
Biswa Das PhD
Associate ProfessorCommunity and Regional Planning
Monica Haddad PhD
ProfessorCommunity and Regional Planning
Alenka Poplin PhD
Associate ProfessorCommunity and Regional Planning
Jiwnath Ghimire PhD
Assistant ProfessorCommunity and Regional Planning
Julie Robison
IDRO Assistant DirectorIDRO
Caroline Westort PhD
Associate ProfessorLandscape Architecture
Hans Klein-Hewett PLA, ASLA
Assistant ProfessorLandscape Architecture
Carol Faber
Associate ProfessorGraphic Design
Raluca Iancu MFA
Assistant ProfessorArt and Visual Culture
Clark Colby
Assistant Teaching ProfessorArt and Visual Culture
Ulrike Passe
ProfessorArchitecture
Austin Stewart MFA
Associate ProfessorArt and Visual Culture
Yijun Zeng
LecturerLandscape Architecture
Bambi Yost
Associate ProfessorLandscape Architecture