The Department announces the retirement of Terry (Teresa) Trudeau after more than 25 years of exceptional service to LARP students, faculty, and staff.
For her honors thesis titled "Painting Place: Murals as Tools for Community Engagement and Spatial Transformation," Haralabatos conducted an analysis of her murals and creative process to explore how public art can have a broader impact on community development, identity, and urban revitalization.
Eva Bergloff and Maitri Chandrashekar, Sustainable Community Development, were featured as student leaders at the SES Fall 2025 Showcase: Highlighting Student & Faculty Sustainability Leadership on Thursday, December 11th, at UMass Amherst. Chandrashekar and Bergloff presented on "New2U: Sustaining a Student-led Business on Campus."
Mohammed Abdelaal, PhD in Planning, and Professor Robert Ryan, landscape architecture and regional planning, published a new article that examines how 11 public R1 universities in the Northeast and Midwest are addressing these issues through a review of campus plans and interviews with senior planners and administrators.
The Department congratulates three alumni, Lauren Stimson of STIMSON, Matthew Cunningham of Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design, and David Yuezhing Chen of EcoLand Planning and Design Corporation, who were elevated as ASLA Fellows on October 12th during the ASLA Conference in New Orleans.
The Planning Student Organization (PSO) at UMass Amherst teamed up with UMass LARP and the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) to host "Planners' Movie and Meet-Up" on October 28th.
The UMass Amherst Master of Regional Planning studio, instructed by Assistant Professor Camille Barchers, welcomed Springfield Honors Academy students to the Design Building for an introduction to planning. The MRP studio led a series of games designed to help students learn about the role of a planner in guiding local decision-making.