CUPPABriefing
June 2009 information for UIC CUPPA Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Services for Edna Marshall
Former CUED/Voorhees accountant, Edna Marshall, who retired in 2005, passed away on May 21. Services will be held on Saturday, May 30 at Fernwood United Methodist Church, 10057 S. Wallace Street, Chicago. The wake begins at 10 a.m. followed by the service at 11 a.m. All friends are welcome.

In Memory of Ingrid Graf
The Survey Research Laboratory has renamed its field centers in both the Chicago and Urbana offices in honor of SRL staff member Ingrid Graf who died unexpectedly on March 20. The centers will now be called the Ingrid Graf Field Center. See http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/RemeberingIngrid.html.

Commencement 2009 Webcast
If you missed CUPPA's commencement ceremony held on Friday, May 8 at the UIC Forum, you can view it at http://www.vcsa.uic.edu/MainSite/departments/commencement/home/2009web.htm. Photos are available for purchase at http://photo.lib.uic.edu/cgi-bin/store/imagefolio.cgi?direct=Commencement_2009/CUPPA. The ceremony marked the 1st class of UPA graduates, the 31st class of MPA's and the 35th class of MUPPs. Special guests included UIC Provost R. Michael Tanner and CMAP executive director, Randall Blankenhorn, our commencement speaker. Special thanks from Dean Pagano to the CUPPA staff who played a pivotal role in event preparation including Anna Baccellieri, Valerie Werner, Sharon Sanders, Sophie Radlowski, Hazel Brown, Marilyn Ruiz, Karen Berthiaume, Sharyn Dyer, Jaime Masterson and Jodi White Jones, and to faculty attendees including David Perry, Jim Thompson, Marty Jaffe, Albert Schorsch, Mary Feeney, Rebecca Hendrik, Meg Haller, Allyson Holbrook, Tim Johnson, Sharon Mastracci, Yonghong Wu, Phil Ashton, Charlie Hoch, Kazuya Kawamura, Curt Winkle, Rachel Weber, Siim Soot.

First UPA Grads Appear In Print
Photos from CUPPA Commencement featuring new UPA grads appear above the fold in the May 27 print edition of UIC News and in the online version at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/uicnews/index.cgi .

Thompson Testifies Before Congress
Public Administration Associate Professor James Thompson testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia on April 30. The subject of the hearing was, "National Security Reform: Implementing a National Security Service Workforce." In his testimony Professor Thompson summarized the findings of a report that Ph.D. student Rob Seidner and he wrote for the IBM Center for the Business of Government on "Federated Human Resource Management in the Federal Government: The Intelligence Community Model."

Students at Chicago Cares Serve-a-thon
Spearheaded by the Public Administration Student Association, CUPPA students will participate in the June 13 Chicago Cares Serve-a-thon by painting, planting, building and beautifying schools across the city. Serve-a-thon is the largest fundraiser for Chicago Cares, an organization that strengthens the Chicago community through 200 volunteer programs every month. For more information, contact Jeanne J. Chiu, PASA Public Service Chair, jeannechiu@gmail.com.

Public Policy and Genomic Science: Managing Dynamic Change - June 18
Public Administration's Science Technology and Environmental Policy Lab will host Professor Michael Mintrom from the University of Auckland on Thursday, June 18 at 1:30 p.m. in CUPPA Hall 110 to discuss developments and applications in genomic science and the resulting public policy issues. www.uic.edu/orgs/stresearch

Voorhees Participates In $1Million HUD Grant
Voorhees codirector and UPP associate professor, Janet Smith, serves as co-principal investigator on the US Dept of Housing and Urban Development grant to study the benefits of green healthy housing. Smith along with additional UIC researchers will evaluate the health and monetary benefits when low-income residents move from distressed, unhealthy public housing into green, affordable, healthy housing. David Jacobs, adjunct associate professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at UIC's School of Public Health serves as PI on the grant.

New CUPPA Alumni Association Board Elected
Thirty-nine alumni were elected to the CUPPA Alumni Association Board of Directors at the group's annual meeting on Tuesday, May 19. Officers include Helene Berlin, MUPP 01 president, Rebecca Mix, MPA 02 vice president, Peggy Laemle, MUPP 01 cotreasurer, Kara Pennoyer, MPA 08 cotreasurer, Katherine Tully, MUPP 08, secretary, and Bob Rice, MUPP 02 past-president. Directors include Joseph P. Selbka, MPA 01, Peter Czubak, MPA 02, Rebecca Mix, MPA 02, Nicole Sims, MPA 02, Anna Kulseth-Williams, MPA 06, Manya Khan, MPA 07, Shadia Nassar, MPA 07, Angela Prazza, MPA 07, Anna Baccellieri, MPA 08, Kara Pennoyer, MPA 08, Jeff Gawel, MPA 98, Mary C. Wells, MUPP 93, Catherine Kannenberg, MUPP 00, Matthew Hickey, MUPP 01, Peggy Laemle, MUPP 01, Bob L. Rice, MUPP 02, Abraham Deletioglu, MUPP 03, Norman R. West, MUPP 04, Marcus Davis, MUPP 05, Lee Deuben, MUPP 05, Michael P. McDermott, MUPP 07, Ryan Richter, MUPP 08, Katherine Tully, MUPP 08, Basia Bhojraj, MPA 09, Al Riley, MUPP 78, Thomas G. Besore, MUPP 91, Eve Ali Boles, MUPP 94, Noah Temaner Jenkins, MUPP 95, Richard DeLeo, MUPP 97, Jennifer M. Tammen, MUPP 99, Helene Berlin, MUPP 01, Kathleen Woodruff, MUPP 09, Peter Skosey, MUPP 93, Ja'Net Defell, MUPP 06, Beth Sholtis, MUPP 09, Elvira Naisen, MUPP 03, Maria Jimena Sayavedra, MUPP 08, Monica Medrano, MUPP 05, Aaron Kimberland, MUPP 09; www.uic.edu/cuppa/alumni.

UPP PhD Alum Awarded
Nina Martin, UPP PhD 08, received the Best Dissertation Award from the Urban Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. Nina is an assistant professor in geography at the University of North Carolina.

PPA PhD Alum Publishes New Book on Foreclosure
Dan Immergluck's (PPA PhD 96) most recent book, FORECLOSED. High-risk Lending, Deregulation and the Undermining of America's Mortgage Market, was published in 2009 by Cornell University Press. Dan is an associate professor in the city and regional planning program at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Great Cities Announces Scholars and Seed Fund Recipients
The 2009-2010 Great Cities Institute Scholars and their research projects are:
Ralph Cintron, Associate Professor, Departments of English and Latin American and Latino Studies, Democracy as Fetish.
Isabel Cruz, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science; Secure Data and Organization Interoperation for Geospatial and Context-Aware Urban Applications.
Elena Gutierrez, Associate Professor, Departments of Latin American and Latino Studies and Gender and Women's Studies,
Social Networks in the Access to Reproductive Health Services of Migrant Women from Zacatecas to Chicago, Illinois: A Community Intervention.
Norma Claire Moruzzi, Associate Professor, Departments of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies, Tied Up in Tehran:Women, Social Change and the Politics Of Daily Life.
Jesus Ramirez-Valles, Professor, Division of Community Health Sciences, The Health and Social Connectedness of Urban "Gayby Boomers" in Chicago.
Moira Zellner, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Policy and Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, Towards Urban Sustainability in the Chicago Region: Using Agent-Based Modeling for Social Learning and Environmental Planning.
The 2009-2010 Great Cities Seed Fund recipients and their projects are:
Joy Hammel, Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, Supporting Metropolitan Aging in Place (MAP-C) for People with Cognitive Disabilities: A Transnational Great Cities Urban Action Project.
Michele Kelley, Associate Professor, Division of Community Health, Linking Youth Serving Program Characteristics to Youth Development: A Community Asset and Culturally Grounded Project.
Edison Trickett, Professor, Department of Psychology, Spreading the Engaged Research Agenda.

SAVE THE DATE

Friday, June 12
Four week summer session ends.

Sunday, June 14
Father's Day.

Monday, June 21
Eight week summer session begins.

Friday, August 7
Eight week summer session ends.

Monday, August 24
Fall 09 semester begins.

Saturday, August 29
CUPPA Alumni Tour of Goose Island Brewery. More Information to Come.

Tuesday, September 1
CUPPA Alumni Association Board Meeting, 6 p.m., CUPPA Hall

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CUPPA Magazine Spring 2009 Edition Launched On-line
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CUPPABriefing is an electronic publication by the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs for faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Published and distributed via email monthly following the meeting of the CUPPA Cabinet, CUPPABriefing will contain announcements, updates, and facts that are important to those working and/or studying in CUPPA. Questions, comments, or announcements may be sent to Jodi White Jones, Assistant Dean for Communications, jmwhite@uic.edu, 312.413.9127.