During my first semester as Dean of the College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) I had the pleasure of meeting individually with our faculty. Among many other things, I discovered that we are not fully aware of the wealth of scholarship we constantly produce. Sometimes faculty attend conferences in remote locations to learn about the fascinating or groundbreaking research that a faculty colleague next door has undertaken.

At the CAP Faculty Symposium we took time out from our usual schedule in order to learn about the richness of the scholarship and creative activities of our colleagues. Faculty have published the content of many of these presentations in peer-reviewed conferences. In some other cases faculty presented a consolidated account of several activities that motivated a number of publications in the past.

In this publication you will find short abstracts of all the presentations grouped in sessions that address the several areas of emphasis that have gained international recognition for our college. Our strengths in teaching, emerging media, sustainability, historic preservation, and community studies is evident. In some cases we see cross-over synergies between heritage conservation and emerging media, or between sustainability and community studies. We hope that as we learn more about each other, our ability to collaborate and build further on such synergies will continue to grow. We hereby invite our colleagues in other colleges and around the world to see CAP as a potential collaborator.

The symposium presentations also reveal that our research informs our teaching and our teaching is a subject of research. Furthermore, in many instances our work is fundamentally committed to or profits from interdisciplinary collaboration. Above all, the symposium shows us that our scholarship is of great relevance in meeting the challenges and opportunities of the future in our region, the nation and the world.

Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco, Ph.D.
Dean

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