Moira Zellner, Director of the Urban Data Visualization Lab and Associate Professor of UPP, recently presented at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Series. Zellner’s presentation was entitled, “Participatory Complex Systems…
The Atlantic interviewed Joshua Drucker, UIC associate professor of urban planning and policy, about President Trump’s attempts to retain and boost manufacturing jobs in the U.S. Drucker also addresses what power, if any,…
P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor at UIC, was interviewed by NBC 5 Chicago (WMAQ-TV) during an investigative report on confusing intersections in the Chicago area. Roundabouts are…
Siim Sööt – The man behind the Sööt family fund You’re driving along the highway and all of a sudden – boom! – you hit traffic. No idea what’s going on ahead, and…
Kelly LeRoux, UIC associate professor of public administration, is interviewed in a Chicago Tribune story about the Chicago Park District inspector general’s review of the Grant Park Conservancy and its president’s selling of…
Do you know of someone highly dedicated to UIC and CUPPA who is making a real difference for the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and its students? Perhaps they are providing jobs/internships, offering…
South Side Weekly quotes James Lewis, a senior research specialist in UIC’s Great Cities Institute, in a story on political representation and fragmentation in the Englewood neighborhood. Lewis says issues of political power…
MPA student Kori Bertrun recently published a piece entitled, “Why AmeriCorps?” in the PA Times. Kori studied national service organizations in Spring 2018 under the direction of Dr. LeRoux and outlined reasons why AmeriCorps is an invaluable…
Findings from the UIC Great Cities Institute’s leadership succession survey of Chicagoland family-owned manufacturing companies are cited in a Forbes.com article about the work of Manufacturing Renaissance, the nonprofit organization that commissioned and released the…
The Great Cities Institute at UIC has released its report on the Fracturing of Gangs and Violence in Chicago: A Research-Based Reorientation of Violence Prevention and Intervention Policy. The report is a follow up…
