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October 30, 2020 @ 1:30 PM CT – SARUP Graduate Open House

October 30, 2020 @ 3:30 PM CT – Let’s Not Go Back to Normal – Positive Leadership with Adam Seaman hosted by Trudy Watt
Monthly discussion series that explores what we previously considered normal, that current circumstances allow us to reconsider, reframe, release, recycle and rethink. Advance preparation is required in the form of media consumption (reading/viewing/listening). You can find all readings, media, chat and attend meetings on our Discord server

October 30, 2020 @ 4 PM CT – Urban Edge Series – Lecture by Harrison Fraker, AIA hosted by Jim Wasley
Environmental Performance and the Poetics of Sustainable Urban Public Space

RECCOMENDED BY FACULTY:

October 29, 2020 @ 4 PM CT – Lecture by Beatriz Colomina: Architecture in the Age of Pandemics: From Tuberculosis to COVID 19 hosted by Cranbrook Academy of Art
Architecture and medicine have always been tightly interlinked. Architectural discourse weaves itself through theories of body and brain, constructing the architect as a kind of doctor and the client as a patient. Every age has its signature afflictions, and each affliction has its architecture.

November 7, 2020 @ 9 AM CT- Join Habitat for Humanity for UWM’s Make a Difference Day on November 7th from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. Assist your community by helping elderly and older adults winterize their homes, rake leaves, etc. Sign up using this form. Don’t forget your mask and we can’t wait to see you all there! Contact Lindsay Herman (leherman@uwm.edu) with questions.

ON DECK:

November 6 @ 1 PM CT – Tea & Bikkies

November 6 @ 1:30 PM CT – Urban Edge Series – Lecture by Herbert Dreiseitl

November 6 @ 1:45 PM CT – On Escarpments: Joshua G. Stein

November 6 @ 2 PM CT – BOSS Program Share Out – Guest Host Megan Simmons

November 6 @ 3 PM CT – HOK Portfolio Discussion and Review

November 6 @ 4 PM CT – From Private to Commons: Lecture by Pier Vittorio Aureli

November 7 @ 9 AM CT – Join Habitat for Humanity for Make a Difference Day

November 13 @ 1 PM CT – Tea & Bikkies

November 13 @ 1:30 PM CT – Urban Edge Series – Lecture by Amy Seek, Stantec NYC.

November 13 @ 2 PM CT – Personal Brand – Resume Portfolio Design with Wekeana Lassiter

November 13 @ 3 PM CT – Lecture by Jose Ibarra and Michael Jefferson – 2019-2020 SARUP Fellows

COMPETITIONS:

October 31, 2020 – Registration deadline – International Owl Center Design Concept Contest

The International Owl Center is the only all-owl education center in the United States. We currently operate out of a downtown storefront but plan to build a new facility adjacent to a park. We need creative ideas to address some very specific challenges we face.

November 2, 2020 – Registration deadline – HUD Affordable Housing hosted by the Office of Policy Development and Research
HUD Competition: Graduate students only. Need to include diversity of disciplines in the student membership:

  • 2 M. Architecture candidates
  • 1 M. Planning or Public Policy candidate
  • 2 MBA candidates

If you are interested in incorporating this into a studio this year and need help identifying a planning student and two business students to include, please contact Nancy Frank.

SCHOLARSHIPS::

SARUP Inclusion and Diversity Scholarship (undergrad only)
We will award 3-4 scholarships ranging from $3000 – $5000 for the 2020-21 academic year. December 2020 graduating students are eligible.
SUBMIT on or before October 23 to Interim Dean Nancy Frank, frankn@uwm.edu

Eligibility: Enrollment in the BSAS program & Student is a member of an under-represented group that has experienced minoritization and marginalization in U.S. society, e.g., Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Middle Eastern, Person of Color, LGBTQ, etc.

RECORDED LECTURES:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2xuPKQe6rq-yWcqjpwa2KoRjCcdJt8wk