In an segment heard on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Kate Lowe, UIC assistant professor of urban planning and policy, was interviewed about Elon Musk’s proposed high-speed rail line connecting O’Hare Airport to the Loop. Chicago…
Professor Rachel Weber has been elected to serve as the Board of Directors of the Oak Park Residence Corporation. The Oak Park Residence Corporation is a community-based, non-profit housing development corporation. Its primary mission…
Moira Zellner, Research Associate Professor for the Inst. for Environmental Science and Policy, and UPP Associate Professor, will be a panelist discussing “Teaching and Leading on Science in Times of Uncertainty” at the…
This report by TERESA L. CÓRDOVA, PH.D., MATTHEW D. WILSON, AND ANDREW STETTNER investigates a region—the Chicago metropolitan area and surrounding communities—where manufacturing was once the largest sector of the economy. The processes of…
Teresa Cordova, director of the Great Cities Institute in CUPPA, co-authored a Crain’s Chicago Business (subscription required) op-ed on the Chicago area’s manufacturing sector, its stabilization in recent years and the potential for future…
Congratulations to Merav for being awarded $20,000 by the Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies, located at Cornell University, Department of City and Regional Planning. Merav submitted a research proposal entitled “Lathrop—The Human Scale as…
Findings from a recent UIC Great Cities Institute report that examines youth unemployment in Illinois are cited in the following articles: Chicago Tribune: Where violence overshadows the beginning of summer: ‘I just hope it’s…
Amanda has been named a 2018-2019 Society of Woman Geographers (SWG) Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research awardee. The SWG Pruitt National Fellowship Program is a competitive fellowship of up to…
Congratulations to Jasmine Gunn who received the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) 2018 Outstanding Planning Student Award. The AICP Outstanding Student Award recognizes outstanding attainment in the study of planning by students…
MUPP student Tanniqua-Kay Buchanan has been awarded the Field Foundation of Illinois fellowship. The Fellowship is related to the Foundation’s program areas of Justice, Art and Leadership Investment, and aims to offer experience…
