Urban Planning and Policy Associate Professor Moira Zellner traveled to Massachusetts to give talks at Tufts University and University of Massachusetts Amherst. Zellner’s presentation for the Tufts Environmental Studies Program focused on participatory modeling…
Urban Planning and Policy Professor Rachel Weber was invited to deliver the Baumer Lecture at the Knowlton School of Architecture and Planning at Ohio State University. The lecture, titled “Autopsy of a Boom: Explaining…
Congratulations to UPP faculty who have been invited to serve on Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot‘s transition committees! Janet Smith, Professor of Urban Planning and Policy and Co-Director of the UIC Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community…
P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor at UIC, is interviewed in an Illinois News Network story about proposed legislation that would turn a portion of I-80 into a tollway to help…
Rachel Weber, professor of urban planning and policy, is interviewed in a story from NPR’s Marketplace about Chicago’s Lincoln Yards development. Weber addresses the shaky history of the city’s minority contracting program. Audio and text…
Teresa Córdova, director of UIC’s Great Cities Institute and professor of urban planning and policy, was quoted in Crain’s Chicago Business’s story: ‘I don’t think she will buckle under political pressure’ (subscription required) regarding about the Chicago mayoral…
Rachel Weber, professor of urban planning and policy, is interviewed in a story from NPR’s Marketplace about Chicago’s Lincoln Yards development. Weber addresses the shaky history of the city’s minority contracting program. Audio and text…
Please join us in congratulating MUPP student Jessica Jones! Her paper titled “Defining and Re-Defining Blight: Evaluating the Blight Remediation Goal of Tax Increment Financing” was recognized as an Honorable Mention for the…
Please join us in congratulating Brenda Parker for being 1 of 14 faculty to win the University of Illinois at Chicago Teacher Recognition Program (TRP) Award! The TRP is UIC’s only campus-wide, self-nominated, faculty-administered teaching…
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…
