The Weitzman School of Design announced new fellows in the Departments of Landscape Architecture, City and Regional Planning, and Architecture, according to the press release.
Emma Mendel is the recipient of the 2023-24 McHarg Fellowship, which the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology awards annually to emerging talents in landscape architecture and related fields.
McHarg fellows receive $75,000 and comprehensive support for research, teaching, and mentorship by faculty members. Mendel’s research focuses on how water shapes the development of "human settlements." Over the next year, she will explore how folklore can complement traditional engineering approaches as mitigation strategies for environmental changes.
Mendel holds graduate degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design. Previously, she lectured in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia.
The Department of City and Regional Planning announced Stanley Jamal Collins as a provost’s postdoctoral fellow.
Collins, a provost’s postdoctoral fellow in the Department of City and Regional Planning, studies how soundscapes and music venues influence neighborhoods over time. He is using the Fishtown neighborhood as a case study, bringing together concepts in urban sociology, planning, policy, geography, and music studies.
Collins recently completed his doctorate at Temple University and holds a master's degree from Oklahoma State University and a bachelor's degree in economics from Morehouse College.
The Department of Architecture welcomed Maximilian Ororbia and Xiang Zhang as postdoctoral fellows.
Ororbia and Zhang will collaborate with the School of Design faculty to create carbon-negative buildings. The team uses carbon-absorbing materials and efficient design to increase the amount of carbon stored in buildings.
Ororbia works in the department’s Polyhedral Structures Lab, developing a design strategy for 3D-printing a carbon-absorbing structure.
A postdoctoral fellow in the Thermal Architecture Lab, Zhang is exploring energy performance, Building-Integrated Photovoltaics, and sustainable building rating.
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