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…
P.S. Sriraj, director of the Urban Transportation Center and research associate professor at UIC, was interviewed during a CBS 2 (WBBM-TV) news segment about Chicago street resurfacing and the city’s efforts to deal with…
The Chicago Tribune and CBS 2 Chicago covered a new UIC Great Cities Institute report, commissioned by the Alternative Schools Network, that examines youth unemployment in Illinois. Report co-authors Teresa Cordova, director of the institute, and Matt…
Kheir Al-Kodmany, UIC professor of urban planning and policy, is quoted in a Chicago Tribune article about suburban home buyers seeking more walkable towns rather than sprawling subdivisions. Al-Kodmany credits this two decade…
Kate Lowe was one of 110 experts that came up with recommendations for helping deal with the damage of segregation in Chicago. She discusses the link between transportation and social equity and the…
Rachel Weber, UIC professor urban planning and policy, and David Merriman, James J. Stukel Presidential Professor in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, serve as featured experts in a St. Paul…
WBEZ (91.5 FM) interviewed Michael Pagano, dean of UIC’s College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, in a story about future East Woodlawn development spurred by the Obama Presidential Center and particularly what…
Brian Flood, Media Contact: Phone: (312) 996-7681 | Email: bflood@uic.edu | Twitter: @bfloodUIC|Posted on April 24, 2018
Despite popular stereotypes that Asian-Americans are a “model minority” unaffected by racial discrimination, a new report from University of Illinois at Chicago researchers details the barriers that Chicago’s Asian-Americans face due to racial…
