The School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation is offering one $1000 scholarship to a Geography or GIS student interested in attending ARCH483: Archaeology and Architecture in the Shadow of Vesuvius, this summer in Italy. The course uses LiDAR technology in archaeology and would be a great supporting sequence option for any of our majors.
An informational meeting will be held Wednesday, February 14th at 1:00-2:00 PM in the Great Space of the Architecture Building. Students who are interested but who cannot make the meeting can contact Dr. Lindley Vann (vann@umd.edu) for a separate appointment or more information.
More about the course: "The curriculum focuses on the use of both the EDM and LiDAR, and the post-processing necessary to produced finished drawings suitable for publication, all of this offered in the setting of the ancient Roman city and the houses and villas of the Vesuvian region. I should add that the course is only one aspect of a larger archaeological project, RAS (Restoring Ancient Stabiae) that the School has led for the part decade. It's a very international group with archaeological teams from Russia, Bulgaria, and other American and Canadian universities. Our faculty for the course are from Maryland, Middlebury, Southwestern, and Cornell."
