April 9, 2008 

On the heels of winning UC Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2006, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Ananya Roy has won UC Berkeley's 2008 Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching. 

April 7, 2008 

The College of Environmental Design is delighted to announce that Professor Nezar Alsayyad has been awarded a UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award for 2008. He is one of four recipients this year. The award is among the highest honors bestowed by the campus. 

November 20, 2007

The 2007-08 search committee has been formed to search and make recommendations for a new dean of the College of Environmental Design. 

November 9, 2007 

The  2006-2007 LAUC-B (Librarians Association of UC Berkeley) Distinguished Librarian Award Committee has announced that CED's own Waverly Lowell, Curator of the Environmental Design Archives, is one of two 2006-2007 awardees. 

September 28, 2007

Michael Donovan, a 2007 Ph.D. graduate of the Department of City and Regional Planning, has won the Gill-Chin Lim Award for Best Dissertation on International Planning from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

September 10, 2007

Two faculty of the College of Environmental Design, Randolph T. Hester of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Jason Corburn of the Department of City and Regional Planning, have won 2007 Paul Davidoff awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

September 4, 2007 

The Department of City & Regional Planning (DCRP) is pleased to announce that the University has approved DCRP's requests that Dr. Michael Smith-Heimer and Dr. Ted Egan be given Adjunct appointments.

June 18, 2007

Please join the Department of City and Regional Planning (DCRP) in welcoming Yerdua (Yeri) Caesar-Kaptoech to the College of Environmental Design. Yeri will handle admissions, fellowships, and advising for the Master of City Planning and doctoral programs.

April 2, 2007 

A development proposal drafted by the University of California Berkeley team to redevelop a 16.5-acre block in Los Angeles has been selected as the winning scheme in the fifth annual ULI (Urban Land Institute) Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. The team's entry was selected over plans submitted by other competition finalist teams from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and two teams from Harvard University. 

March 15, 2007

In January 2007 the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Bock Family established the Kaye Bock Memorial Fund for Community Building and Citizenship in honor of Kaye and her dedication to keeping DCRP students enrolled during difficult financial times.

January 31, 2007

Recognizing successful and innovative affordable housing projects and their leadership teams, the $50,000 inaugural I. Donald Terner Prize is awarded to Central City Concern and five finalists.

January 17, 2007

Kaye Bock, Student Affairs Officer of the Department of City & Regional Planning, passed away in her sleep the morning of January 16, 2007. The cause of death is unknown at this time. Kaye was 62.