MUPP Alumna Chelsie Coren Receives APA Outstanding Student Award
Congratulations to Master of Urban Planning and Policy (MUPP) Alumna Chelsie Coren on earning the APA Outstanding Student Award!
As a MUPP student, Chelsie worked as a Research KnowledgeBase intern at the American Planning Association and as a Research Assistant for Urban Planning and Policy Professor Kate Lowe in the Urban Transportation Center. Chelsie also organized the food justice panel at the 2020 Urban Innovation Symposium. In June 2020, a report produced by Kate Lowe and Chelsie Coren was cited in Crain's Chicago Business on its findings of Chicago transit disparities.
"My favorite experience as a MUPP was working as a Research Assistant for Professor Lowe. By helping to coordinate focus groups, code transcriptions, and analyze data, I learned about the intersecting transportation barriers that job seekers face on the south and southwest sides of Chicago. My undergraduate degree is in anthropology and I was having a hard time figuring out exactly where my qualitative research skills fit into the planning world until I began working on this project". - Chelsie Coren
The APA Outstanding Student Awards recognizes outstanding attainment in the study of planning by students graduating from Planning Accreditation Board–accredited planning programs during the academic year of the award. Each respective planning program convenes a jury to make the selection(s) and schedules the award presentations at their schools.
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My favorite experience as a MUPP was working as a Research Assistant for Professor Lowe. By helping to coordinate focus groups, code transcriptions, and analyze data, I learned about the intersecting transportation barriers that job seekers face on the south and southwest sides of Chicago.