Professor Moira Zellner helped tackle Calumet’s flooding problem with other organizations such as Delta Institute and the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association (SSMMA). The Calumet Stormwater Colaborative (CSC) held its first-ever on-the-ground training…
Alvaro Villigran, a MUPP student, was featured in a StreetsBlog Chicago article covering a Divvy Winter Challenge Medalist party. The article mentions his MUPP master project about Divvy: “Villagran happens to be so…
Janet Smith, UIC professor of urban planning and policy and co-director of UIC’s Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement, is interviewed during a Chicago Public Media (WBEZ-FM 91.5) news story…
Dr. Stacey Sutton of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs gave a testimony with Renee Hatcher, the Director of the Business Enterprise Law Clinic at The John Marshall Law School at the Cook County Commission…
Moira Zellner, UIC associate professor in urban planning and policy and director of the Urban Data Visualization Center, was featured in La Nacion, one of the main daily Argentine newspapers, in a story…
In December, UPPSA submitted an entry for the APA’s Outstanding Planning Student Organization (PSO) Award, and we are proud to say… THEY WON! Their entry for the Best Practices category focused on the…
The Chicago Reporter features a perspective column co-authored by Amanda Lewis, director of UIC’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) and professor of African American studies and sociology; and William…
American Public Media’s Marketplace interviewed Rachel Weber, UIC professor urban planning and policy, in a segment about changes to the federal tax law that established a new Opportunity Zone program with incentives to…
The UIC Great Cities Institute’s March 1 event commemorating the release of the 1968 Kerner Commission Report on urban cities is previewed in the Chicago Sun-Times. Fred Harris, a former senator from Oklahoma…
Each month during the academic year, The Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy chooses an IRRPP scholar and features the work they are doing on race/ethnicity and public policy in our…
