UPP Adjunct Assistant Professor Elizbeth Kocs was selected to participate in The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s 2019 Executive Energy Leadership Program. The program provides non-technical business, governmental, and community leaders an opportunity to learn about…
Congratulations to the BA in Urban Studies graduate Eboni Hawkins who received the prestigious Moelis Scholarship to attend University of Pennsylvania Master of City Planning (MCP) program. We wish Eboni all the success…
UPP’s Moira Zellner has been invited to participate as a panelist at the upcoming French American Climate Talks to be held at the Discovery Partners Institute on June 19th. Presented by the Frech…
Janet Smith, UIC professor of urban planning and policy and co-director of the Voorhees Center, is quoted in a Chicago Sun-Times article about a Duke University report that aims to quantify the negative financial impact…
Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, joined WTTW-TV’s “Chicago Tonight” for a panel discussion on the City of Chicago’s finances and what…
Congratulations to recent MUPP alumnus Shantanu Pai for receiving the Early Career Investigator award from the Illinois Prairie Research Center. Shantanu has worked with the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC), mapping strategy for…
The Daily Line talked with Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at UIC, about the budget issues that Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot will inherit and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s fiscal…
John J. Betancur, Professor of Urban Planning & Policy, is being awarded the 2019 Silver Circle Award! Professor Betancur has been a faculty member in CUPPA for over thirty years. He has worked…
Stacey Sutton, Assistant Professor of UPP and Faculty Fellow in IRRPP,received the 2019 Best Conference Paper Award, Honorable Mention at the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) Conference! Professor Sutton’s paper, “Cooperative Cities: Municipal Support for…
Streetsblog Chicago’s overage of the “Our City 2049” panel discussion includes quotes from P.S. Sriraj, director of UIC’s Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor at UIC, who was among the featured panelists to…
