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Harry Robinson

Howard University Mourns the Passing of Harry Granville Robinson III

It is with extraordinary reverence that we acknowledge the irreplaceable contributions of Harry Granville Robinson III (B. Arch. ’66, M.C.P. ’70), who passed away on Friday, June 13. Over the course of a career that spanned decades, he was instrumental in the transformation of the University into a modern, relevant, highly regarded institution of higher learning — serving as vice president for University administration, interim vice president for academic affairs, and dean of the School of Architecture and Planning [now the Department of Architecture in the College of Engineering and Architecture] for 16 years. We remain in his debt.

Category: Alumni, Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

Collage of HU architecture faculty exhibit

Howard University Architecture Faculty Curate Exhibitions at The Octagon

Howard University architecture professors Nea Maloo, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP, ICC, and Dahlia Nduom, AIA, NOMA, have curated exhibitions this past academic year at The Octagon, a local museum that serves as the historic headquarters for the American Institute of Architects.

Category: Architecture, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture

Dr. Sonya Smith

Howard University CEA Researchers Honored at Inaugural Research and Leadership Awards

The President’s 1867 Award, Howard’s highest honor for research, was presented to Sonya Smith, Ph.D., professor of mechanical engineering and executive director of the Research Institute for Tactical Autonomy (RITA). Danda B. Rawat, Ph.D., and Nea Maloo, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP, ICC, were also honored at the awards ceremony with the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards and Su Yan, Ph.D., was honored with the Up and Coming Researcher of the Year award.

Category: Alumni, Architecture, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering

Architecture lecturer Nea Maloo

Howard University Architecture Professor Nea Maloo Awarded 2024 Fair Housing Award

Howard University architecture assistant professor Nea Maloo, FAIA, was recently awarded the 2024 Fair Housing Award for Consumer Education by the Association of Real Estate License Law Officials. The Fair Housing Awards recognize programs that promote fair housing and work to eliminate housing discrimination.

Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

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Howard University Selected to Participate in $160M EPA Project to Help Reduce Climate Pollution from Construction Materials Manufacturing

On July 16, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that Howard University has recently been selected to participate in the $160M U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) project for reducing embodied greenhouse gas emissions for construction materials and products. Nea Maloo, assistant professor in the Howard University Department of Architecture, will be collaborating with researchers from the University of Washington, the University of California, Berkeley and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on validating and expanding research and education for life cycle assessment (LCA) policy. 

Category: Architecture, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture

Brianna Alexander

Howard University Architecture Graduate Brianna Alexander Elected to AIAS Board of Directors

Howard University architecture recent graduate Brianna Alexander (M. Arch. ‘24) was elected to the American Institute of Architecture Students as the Northeast Quad Director.  Elected for a one-year term, after a successful campaign including speeches, meeting chapter leaders and hosting events, Alexander will be officially inaugurated at AIAS Grassroots Leadership Conference 2024 in July. 

Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

Howard and Drexel PIs

Howard University Receives DOE HBCU Clean Energy Education Prize

DOE launched its inaugural HBCU Clean Energy Education Prize Partnerships Track earlier this year, naming Howard University as one of only ten prize winners.

Category: Architecture, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture

Julian Owens AIA Profile

Howard University Architecture Lecturer Julian Owens Receives 2024 Architectural League Prize

Architecture lecturer Julian Owens, NOMA, AIA, NCARB, was recently announced a winner of the 2024 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, as a founding director of the Partners of Place design collective.

Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

Architecture Assistant Professor Dahlia Nduom Headshot

Howard University Architecture Professor Dahlia Nduom Named 2024 Diverse Education Emerging Scholar

Nduom is one of only 15 scholars highlighted in the 2024 Emerging Scholars edition of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, a publication dedicated to special reporting on diversity in higher education for over four decades.

Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

Arriel Barganier and Alrick Davis

Meet Our 2024 CEA Awards and Recognition Ceremony Student Speakers

Our Spring 2024 CEA Awards and Recognition Ceremony will feature two outstanding College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) graduates selected from a group of candidates who submitted entries based on a set of criteria. Presenting this year are Arriel Barganier (B.S. Arch. ‘24) and Alrick Davis (BSChE ‘24).

Category: Architecture, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture

Dr. Hazel Edwards at Harvard

Howard University Architecture Alumna and Professor Hazel R. Edwards Joins Harvard Radcliffe Institute Class of Fellows

Howard University Architecture Professor Hazel R. Edwards, Ph.D. (B.Arch. ‘86) was selected as a 2023-2024 fellow of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. According to the Institute, a Radcliffe fellowship offers scholars in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and arts—as well as writers, journalists, and other distinguished professionals—a rare chance to pursue ambitious projects for a full year in a vibrant interdisciplinary setting amid the resources of Harvard.

Category: Alumni, Architecture, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture

Howard winning team at Solar Decathlon

Howard University Teams Win at the DOE Solar Decathlon 2023 Design Challenge

The Howard University interdisciplinary teams Retro Booming and Team Revive successfully participated in the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2023 Design Challenge. The teams are comprised of 21 students from the architecture, clinical laboratory, engineering, environmental science, environmental studies, and sociology disciplines.

Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

Nea Maloo

Howard University Architecture Lecturer Nea Maloo Elevated to the 2023 College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects

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Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

Nduom at the 2022 AIA|DC Fall Fete

Howard University Architecture Assistant Professor Dahlia Nduom Receives AIA|DC 2022 Architect Educator Award

​​​​​​​Howard University architecture assistant professor Dahlia Nduom recently received the AIA|DC 2022 Architect Educator Award sponsored by the Washington Architectural Foundation. The Architect Educator Award recognizes an individual or organization for excellence in the advancement of architectural education through teaching, design, scholarship, research, or service.

Category: Architecture, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture

Maloo at the PAVE Gala with award presenters

Howard University Architecture Lecturer Nea Maloo Receives Inaugural PAVE Educator of the Year Award 

Howard University architecture lecturer Nea Maloo recently received the inaugural Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE) Educator of the Year Award. Sponsored by global omnichannel marketing production agency Tag Worldwide, this new award honors the outstanding accomplishments of full-time educators and their dedication to design education. 

Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

2022 awardees with AR editor-in-chief

Howard University Architecture Professor Hazel R. Edwards Receives 2022 Architectural Record Award

Howard University architecture professor Hazel Ruth Edwards, PhD., FAICP, (B.Arch. ’86) recently received Architectural Record's 2022 Women in Architecture Design Leadership Award in the category of educator.

Category: Alumni, Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

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Howard University Master of Architecture Program Awarded DoE New Zero Energy Design Designation

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded its first-ever Zero Energy Design Designation (ZEDD) seal of recognition to Howard University for its master of architecture program with an equitable high-performance energy design concentration.

Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

Hazel Ruth Edwards delivering TEDx talk

Howard University Architecture Alumna and Professor Hazel Ruth Edwards Delivers TEDx Talk on Black Voices in Architecture

Howard University architecture alumna, professor and former chair of the Department of Architecture Hazel Ruth Edwards, Ph.D., FAICP (B.Arch. ’86) was an invited speaker at a local, independently organized TED event, the TEDxPearlStreet event Mavericks & Moonshots, this past summer.

Category: Alumni, Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

Architecture Assistant Professor Dahlia Nduom Headshot

Howard University Architecture Assistant Professor Dahlia Nduom Receives Prestigious Graham Foundation Grant

Howard University architecture assistant professor Dahlia Nduom recently received a 2022 Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts Grant for her archival research of the architectural morphology of tourist and non-tourist spaces in Jamaica. Her research is titled, “Tourism, Tropicalization and the Architectural Image.”

Category: Architecture, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture

Martin Paddack with Howard achitecture student who explains the design and concept behind the toy she created for the project.

Howard University Architecture Students Collaborate with Temple X Schools on Toy Project for Preschool and Elementary School Children

Howard University first-year architecture students collaborated with Temple X Schools on a class project for ARCH 208: Design Thinking + Making. Incorporated into course curriculum by course coordinator and architecture lecturer Martin Paddack, the project "Learning through Experimentation and Exploration: The Concept Toy/Tool" involved students designing and building conceptual toys or tools for preschool and elementary school students. Architecture adjunct lecturers Robert Klosowski and Jahlik Parkes assisted in leading the class of 44 students and bringing the educational and philanthropical project to fruition.

Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

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Howard University Architecture Assistant Professor Farhana Ferdous Receives 2022 ARCC New Researcher Award

Howard University architecture assistant professor Farhana Ferdous, Ph.D., recently received the 2022 Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) New Researcher Award. The ARCC New Researcher Award celebrates the activities, accomplishments and promise of scholars in the early stages of their research careers.

Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

Dr. Farhana Ferdous

Architecture Assistant Professor Farhana Ferdous Granted 2022 NEH Fellowship and Alzheimer’s Association Diversity Grant

Architecture assistant professor Farhana Ferdous, Ph.D., is the recipient of a 2022 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship. According to NEH, NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research and rigorous analysis and provide support to recipients to conduct research or to produce books or other quality digital materials.

Category: Architecture, Research, College of Engineering and Architecture

Architecture lecturer Nea Maloo

Architecture Lecturer Nea Maloo Appointed as Maryland Real Estate Commissioner

Architecture lecturer Nea Maloo has been appointed as consumer member of the board of the Maryland Real Estate Commission by the Senate Executive Nominations Committee and the Senate of Maryland. Maloo will serve as a commissioner for a term of four years beginning June 1, 2022, as well as for the remainder of the 2018 term.

Category: Architecture

Maloo with team in Colorado

Howard University College of Engineering and Architecture Seniors Win Director’s Award at the DOE Solar Decathlon 2022 Design Challenge

The Howard University team of engineering and architecture seniors, Howard’s Gateway, won the Director’s Award for the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2022 Design Challenge. The recipient of the Director’s Award is selected by the Solar Decathlon director to recognize a team who exhibited outstanding performance during the competition event and demonstrated passionate enthusiasm for affecting change through their participation in Solar Decathlon. 

Category: Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture

Jason Pugh

Architecture Alumnus Jason Pugh Named Principal at Gensler and Serves as 2021-2022 NOMA President

Jason Pugh, AIA, AICP, NOMA, LEED AP, (B. Arch. 2005) was named principal at Gensler, the world’s largest design and architecture firm, according to Architectural Record. Founded in San Francisco, California in 1965, Gensler generated $1.2 billion in revenue in 2021, the most of any architecture firm in the U.S. Gensler operates offices in forty-nine cities in sixteen countries worldwide, working for clients in over one hundred countries.

Category: Alumni, Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

Nea Maloo

Architecture Lecturer Nea Maloo Receives Prestigious Course Development Prize

Architecture lecturer Nea Maloo, AIA, was recently announced as the winner of the 2022 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Course Development Prize issued in collaboration with Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. The competitive prize recognizes exemplary course proposals on the designated theme of “architecture, climate change and society.”

Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

Architecture alumnus Alonzo Robinson

Architecture Alumnus Alonzo Robinson Honored with Renaming of Milwaukee Fire Department Administration Building

Architecture alumnus Alonzo Robinson (B.Arch. ’51) was recently honored with the renaming of the Milwaukee Fire Department Administration Building, which he designed. The building now stands as the Alonzo Robinson Milwaukee Fire Department Administration Building. Robinson was the first African-American architect to be registered in the state of Wisconsin.

Category: Alumni, Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

Lewis K. Downing and Howard H. Mackey

Honoring Our Building Namesakes Lewis K. Downing and Howard H. Mackey This Black History Month

This Black History Month, we honor our building namesakes and pioneers in engineering and architecture education, Lewis King Downing (BSCE 1921) and Howard Hamilton Mackey.

Category: Alumni, Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture

Maloo presented NCARB Scholar in Professional Practice award by NCARB’s Past President Robert “Bob” Calvani

Architecture Lecturer Nea Maloo Selected as 2021 NCARB Scholar

Architecture Educator Nea Maloo was selected as a 2021 National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) Scholar. A total of fifteen professional practice professors from architecture programs throughout the country were selected to participate in the third annual NCARB Scholars in Professional Practice training event.

Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture

Dr. Ferhana Ferdous

Architecture Assistant Professor Farhana Ferdous Awarded HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty Innovation in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship

Howard University architecture assistant professor Farhana Ferdous was recently awarded the HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship for her course, "Health and Design in Segregated Landscape." The HistoryMakers Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellowship is designed to foster classroom innovation and teaching and to diversify curricula while furthering student learning and research skills during the upcoming academic year. The "Health and Design in Segregated Landscape" course provides students with a framework to assess different urban and built environments from health and wellbeing viewpoints.

Category: Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture