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Book Features LEAFHouse UM's 2007 Solar Decathlon entry, LEAFHouse, is featured in a new book on sustainable housing. Prefabulous and Sustainable profiles 25 green homes in North America. The book will be available for purchase in April. LEAFHouse is an 800 square-foot solar-powered home developed by a team including Clark School students to be inhabitable and able to produce its own power. The house came in second place in the international competition and won the BP Solar People's Choice Award as the crowd favorite among those who toured the 2007 competition houses on the National Mall. UM plans to field a Solar Decathlon team for the 2011 competition (see related news story). Related Articles: UM a Solar Decathlon Finalist UM Progresses in Solar Decathlon 2011 Competition Pepco Buys UMd.'s Solar Decathlon-Winning Home for Public Display Hoyer Honors UM Solar Decathlon Team University of Maryland Wins 2011 Solar Decathlon Hovercraft Invade Kim Building Again NPR Features Gamera Team Clark School Team Unofficially Satisfies Two Sikorsky Prize Requirements Gamera Team Sets New Unofficial World Record for Human-Powered Helicopter Flight "Nebuchadnezzar" Takes Autonomous Hovercraft Honors February 26, 2010 «Previous Story   Next Story»

Current Headlines Clark School Celebrates Students, Honors Alumni and Faculty at Spring 2013 Commencement Marcus Receives Poole and Kent Senior Faculty Teaching Award ECE Undergrad Wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Dagenais to Co-Chair POEM 2013 36 Clark School Students Accepted into NIST Summer Research Program Eta Kappa Nu Wins 2011-2012 Outstanding Chapter Award Professors Goldsman & Peckerar Win Award from University System of Maryland Murphy Promoted to Full Professor Clark School Freshmen Compete in Hovercraft Competition Marcus Selected as Poole and Kent Senior Faculty Teaching Award Recipient

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