The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning has announced that UIC MUPP Student, Jan Jenkins, is the recipient of the association’s 2018 Ed McClure Award for the Best Masters Student Paper. Jenkins’s paper is…
In an online story from The Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal, Nik Theodore, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, comments on wage theft in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. The article also…
In an interview with WKNY-AM, Rachel Weber, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, discusses the concept of participatory budgeting in advance of a related pilot project being launched in Kingston, New York. http://bit.ly/2Mg80ha
Urban Planning & Policy PhD student Junjun Zheng has been elected to serve as Vice Chair of the Resource Conservation Technical Coordinating Committee of the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA). The elections…
Zorica Nedovic-Budic, UPP Department Head, presented at the Kavil Future’s Symposium: Sensing the City – Urban Sensing for Planning and Peace Making. All other videos from the symposium can be found here.
Rachel Weber gives her thoughts on the Wisconsin Foxconn deal and and the Amazon Headquarters potential locations. “Professor Weber pauses, wanting to balance what might be perceived as pessimism. “I’m not always just…
Mr. Newsome is the newly elected Student Member of the Board of Trustees representing the UIC campus. As UIC Student Trustee, Mr. Newsome’s objective will be to ensure that the voices of all…
Amanda Kass, GFRC Associate Director, was a panelist on WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight” for a segment on the withholding of Illinois state funds from municipalities that short their police and fire pension funds, and…
As part of the effort to draft a consent decree on police reform that meets the needs of Chicago’s residents, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office solicited input from the community through 14 community…
