Mary Beth McGrew is an architect with experience working for large multidisciplinary firms with projects from as far south as Alabama to as far west as California working on a variety of building types and campus plans, before accepting a position with the University of Cincinnati. In Cincinnati she lead the Planning, Design and Construction group and with the help of the team wrote the first Climate Action Plan for the campus, authored a Getty Grant to preserve a contemporary campus, steered the campus design to win a number of AIA awards and volunteered on a number of boards and still today remains active in the Society of College and University Planning. An opportunity at the University of Pittsburgh occurred in April of 2019 where she now leads the Planning, Design and Real Estate Group. This is the region where she grew up and her first degrees were from the University of Pittsburgh and the return, when asked by the University, was in part a desire to give back to a University that provided the start to her career many years ago in an entirely different field of study. She is currently heavily engaged with the work of her areas along with the potential to redevelopment of the hillside to incorporate not only building programs as set out in the University’s recent master plan but a re-forestation and stormwater management plan both important in an increasingly troubled planet to stabilize the hill, address the ever increasing problem of stormwater and to provide spaces of contemplation where a more natural world provides clues to the future. She is a current board member of the Association of University Architects.