Ning Ai, associate professor of Urban Planning and Policy, was interviewed by the Associated Press to comment on two recent reports by the US Environmental Protection Agency on updated food waste management strategies.
UPP students won two awards for their GIS research posters at two separate conferences last week! Graduate students Bailey Foster and Grace Li won the award for best student poster at the Illinois…
Adelante Chicago’s Lourdes Duarte interviewed Great Cities Institute director, Teresa Córdova, on the Institute’s Latino research initiative. Watch the interview on YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUIOBwesOLc&t=4s.
Green Economy Firms in the Chicago Region groups together clusters of related industries and examines those clusters to better understand the Green Economy in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. The report compiles a list…
Food for Thought: Food Ecosystem in the Chicago Region tracks employment, establishment, and annual wage changes between 2010 to 2020 and highlights the weaknesses in the regions food supply chain in the wake…
Annie Howard, MUPP '21|Posted on September 07, 2023
When Andy Bavas was appointed the director of graduate studies for the newly-founded Masters of Urban Planning and Policy (MUPP) program at what was then called the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle,…
The Spring 2023 Master of City Design (MCD) Studio has been awarded the American Planning Association – Illinois (APA-IL) Chapter’s Student Project Award. This marks the third year in a row that CUPPA…
Rachel Weber, professor of Urban Planning and Policy, was quoted in an article on Chicago Public Schools transparency thru the Near South High School planning process, which was published on the Illinois Answers Project…
CUPPA Dean Stacey Swearingen White was selected to participate in the 2023-24 President’s Executive Leadership Program (PELP) sponsored by University of Illinois System President Tim Killeen. As a PELP fellow, Dean Swearingen White will…
When he stepped in as the new department head for the Urban Planning and Policy Department within CUPPA at the start of 2020, Professor Nik Theodore had grand plans. More than anything else,…
