Registration for Summer Sessions opens Monday, March 1. NOW is a good time for you to schedule a time to meet with your academic advisor if you are planning on taking summer courses.

Priority Registration for fall 2021 opens on Monday, April 5.

Continuing through the spring semester, all advising will be conducted through Zoom. You can schedule an advising appointment with your academic advisor by logging into MyPlan. Or reach out to your advisor directly at:

Jaime Mastera jaime.mastera@unl.edu

Leslie Gonzalez leslie.gonzalez@unl.edu

Stephanie Kuenning skuenning2@unl.edu

Architecture Hall Room 305 (Across from the Arch Hall Library Entrance)

Architecture Hall Room 305 (Across from the Arch Hall Library Entrance)

The lab will be staffed by 4^th year Architecture student/Learning Assistant Ella Knight.

If you prefer to meet via zoom rather than in person, please reach out to Ella directly to schedule: ella.knight@huskers.unl.edu

-Stephanie Kuenning

This is a great time of the year with the semester going in full speed, and a lot of interesting and exciting ideas floating around the college. I want to start this week’s newsletter by sharing some of my work. As a professor of practice, there are two lines that I pursue outside of the classroom. First is active engagement in urban landscape projects. The focus of my practice is on the urban public realm, which includes parks, waterfronts, plazas and so on. Public realm projects are interesting in that they are usually ambitious, relatively generous in its investment and public interest centered. This focus of my office has allowed a theoretical dialogue and exploration for cultural strategies to read, capture, conceptualize and transform cultural meanings to form, space and place. As landscape architects, we stand at the crossroads of history and modernity when designing urban public spaces, and we need to be very careful, responsible and strategic in our responses. More-

The CRPL895 Capstone Studio in spring 2021 aims to provide substantive support to the Lincoln/Lancaster County Planning Department staff in relation to the department’s preparation for a major update to the PLAN forward: Lincoln-Lancaster County 2050 Comprehensive Plan. Four individual student projects are working on subjects that are relevant to Lincoln/Lancaster County and of particular interest to the department’s planners. The studies will help city planners and policy makers with critical planning decisions regarding “where, how, and when the community intends to grow, how to preserve and enhance the things that make it special, and strategies for implementing the vision for how we will live, work, play and get around in the future.” More-

In the Master of Architecture program, graduate students can pursue a year-long independent thesis project or continue with graduate option studios. If a student elects the thesis option, their ideas and ruminations are developed in conjunction with a faculty mentor. Sarah Deyong, associate professor of architecture, teaches the Thesis Prep. seminar and states, "the final thesis is a great opportunity for students to pursue an investigation that could become the seed of a life-long interest." Thesis Prep. is a required 2-credit course for any student wishing to pursue the independent thesis project. More-

Check out the new competition and scholarship opportunities on our website or here on Canvas.

Note: Due to the numerous opportunities available, we are listing all content on our website. See links listed above for more details.

Check out the College of Architecture website for new internship and job opportunities. 

Plus, University of Nebraska Career Services encourages you to view a few of their new Full-Time job postings at Handshake. Check them out!

Date: March 4

Time: 12 pm

Location: Online

Kia Weatherspoon-Hyde Lecture

Date: March 5

Time: 4 pm

Location: Online

Date: May 7

Time: 3 pm

Location: TBD

Date: May 8

Time: 9 am

Location: TBD