A Message from UIC Provost Javier Reyes Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that Stacey Swearingen White, PhD, will become the new dean of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs…
Congratulations to Muhammad Shafaat Nawaz, a Fullbright urban planning doctoral student in CUPPA, for recently receiving the Research for Social Transformation and Advancement (RASTA) research grant from a prestigious Pakistani foundation! His study…
Crain’s Chicago Business recognized two CUPPA alumni with the Journal’s annual 40 Under 40 award. (https://www.chicagobusiness.com/40-under-40/chicagos-40-under-40-class-2022-crains-list) (subscription required) Crain’s 40 under 40 honors people from a wide range of industries — technology, consumer products,…
In a story from New York Public Radio’s online news website Gothamist, Nik Theodore, UIC professor and head of urban planning and policy, addresses the hurdles for asylum seekers in their transition into the…
Does your organization have a project it wants done but no time to do it? Perhaps you want to assess the progress made on implementation of your comprehensive plan or you have collected…
A Chicago magazine story examining areas of Chicago where the white population has grown over the past three decades includes comments on gentrification from John Betancur, UIC professor of urban planning and policy.
India’s leading School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) Delhi and the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) will sign a Memo of Understanding (MOU) on October 18. Leveraging matchless resources, including geographical locations at…
An Omaha World-Herald story on Mutual of Omaha’s plans for a new skyscraper for its headquarters cites work from Kheir Al-Kodmany, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, on the symbols that tall buildings represent…
A Chicago Tribune story on Native American culture and sites in Chicago includes findings from a 2019 report released by UIC’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy that documents the historical and ongoing…
P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center at UIC, is quoted in a CBS 2 Chicago report about an early morning shooting on the Ohio Street feeder ramp off the Kennedy Expressway.
