Rebecca Retzlaff was recognized as one of Auburn University’s Engaged Scholars. Engaged Scholars hold the title for a three-year appointment and receive an annual supplement of $5,000 to support their research and community engagement. Rebecca…
UIC CUPPA programs are ranked among the nation’s best! U.S. News & World Report Graduate Schools rankings for 2020 report on the following CUPPA programs: Urban Planning & Policy #3, Public Finance/ Budgeting #12, Local…
CBS 2 (WBBM-TV) interviewed Teresa Córdova, Director of the Great Cities Institute and Professor of UPP, in a segment related to a Brookings Institution report on millennial migration figures for major U.S. cities. According to the report,…
P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor at UIC, interviewed in a Chicago Tribune front page article that examines the delays in the Jane Byrne Circle Interchange reconstruction project. Sriraj tells the Tribune…
Congratulations to these four UIC students on receiving 2018 Krambles Transportation Scholarship Awards! Recipients include Anthony Misiak (CUPPA), Sudheer Ballare (College of Engineering), Emma Chapman (College of Business), and Ali Shamshiripour (College of…
Longtime community organizer, public policy professional and Master’s in Urban Planning and Policy student, Daniel La Spata won a decisive victory in the 1st Ward Alderman race, capturing 61 percent of the vote to Moreno’s…
Planetizen, an urban planning news website, highlights the WBEZ report on research from UIC’s Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement on Chicago’s shrinking middle class. http://bit.ly/2NP3eVP
The New York Times quotes Beth Gutelius, a senior research specialist at UIC’s Great Cities Institute, in a story on Amazon’s expansion and the company’s mixed success with building community relationships. “People think…
The proposed express service from Elon Musk’s Boring Company may be in doubt following the recent Chicago mayoral election. UTC Director P.S. Sriraj offers his thoughts on the controversial plan in an article published in…
Teresa Córdova, Director of the Great Cities Institute and Professor of UPP, is interviewed by NPR & WBUR-FM’s “Here and Now” in a story on Chicago’s declining African-American population. The segment’s audio and a related online…
