Ken Schmidt Lydia Kimball BALTIMORE ?EUR??,,????'??? Mahan Rykiel Associates Inc., a landscape architectural firm in Hampden, Md., is the recipient of the Award of Excellence Award from the Maryland State Highway Administration. The awards represent outstand-ing design concepts and execution in transport-ation related projects. Mahan Rykiel Associates received an award for the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Entrance Road because it exemplified the principles of ?EUR??,,????'??Thinking Beyond the Pavement?EUR??,,????'??. Ken Schmidt and Lydia Kimball, Associate Principals, led the design team.