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Master of Urban Design alum Bageshri Thakar (MUD 2024) offers a compelling example of how College of Environmental Design students can immediately make a real impact on the built environment. Her thesis project, developed for a site in Livermore, California, led to working with the city’s planning department, which is now creating a land-use and policy framework based on her concept.  

The Urban Design Lab selected theses by two 2025 graduates of UC Berkeley’s Master of Urban Design program, Shivani Atre and Styliani Kalomoira Kontogianni, for publication in the 2025 UDL Thesis Publication.

The College of Environmental Design is proud to announce that the Landscape Architecture Foundation has named Sariyah Benoit (MLA 2027) to the fourth cohort of its LAF Ignite scholarship and mentorship program.

Professor of Architecture Neyran Turan and her firm, NEMESTUDIO, were recently recognized in Architectural Record, with their CS2 House named June’s House of the Month. Located in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood, the single-family residence challenges the area’s typical post-WWII box-style homes with a striking design featuring an oversized shed roof and a cylindrical ground floor.

Rachel Vineberg Jones (MArch 2019) and her husband Eric Jones have made a generous commitment to the College of Environmental Design to increase access to design education for North Bay high school students.