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CUPPABriefing
March 2005
Announcements :
Alumni Association on the Role of Religious Institutions in Community Development on April 5 and Revisiting Regionalism on April 26
CUPPA Alumni will host the second of their Opposing Viewpoints Spring Speakers Series on April 5, 2005 in CUPPA Hall Room 110 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Moderator Nacho Gonzalez of UIC Neighborhoods Initiative will lead the discussion with Sidney Hollander, President, Board of Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, Bill Purcell, Director, Office for Peace and Justice, the Archdiocese of Chicago, and Ann Woodward, Vice President for Community Supportive Services, Lakefront Supportive Housing. The third and final speakers series will be held on April 26, 2005 at the very convenient location of the Illini Center, 200 S. Wacker Drive (at Adams across from Sears Tower), Chicago.
General admission is $10, UI Alumni Association members $5, and students free. RSVP to Andrea Traudt, 6-2569, atraud2@uic.edu .
CUPPA Commencement
Information for this year's CUPPA Commencement on May 7 can be found at http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/news/news_05/2005_commencement.htm or for more information, contact Jim Marek, 3-2403, jmarek@uic.edu .
GCI Hosts COPC Conference
The Great Cities Institute will be co-hosting the national meeting of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development COPC Conference on university-community partnerships on April 21-23.
Social Work's Hoenig Lecture
Dean Creasie Finney Hairston of the UIC Jane Addams College of Social Work cordially invites you to attend the 11th Karen Honig Memorial Lecture, "Expanding Our Approaches to Addressing and Ending Domestic Violence Among African Americans," by Oliver J. Williams, PhD, Professor and Executive Director, Institute on Domestic Violence In the African-American Community, University of Minnesota, School of Social Work, on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at 4:00 p.m. in the Student Services Building, Rooms A, B, & C. Please R.S.V.P. to Byron Samuel at 312-996-3219 or e-mail: byrons@uic.edu . A reception with refreshments will be held immediately after the lecture.
Thelma's First
MUPP Student Janelle Brown was chosen as the first recipient of the Thelma L. Jackson Scholarship award. For those of you who weren't here, the award is named in honor of Thelma L. Jackson, who retired in 2002 after serving the UPP Program and its students since 1973!
UIAA Recognizes CUPPA Student Leaders
MPA Student Lisa Kremer and MUPP Student Marcus Davis will be recognized on March 31 by the University of Illinois Alumni Association with the UIAA Student Leadership Award.
UTC's DiJohn Becomes President
Joe DiJohn, METSI Director, has become the local president of the Transportation Research Forum.
Comings and Goings :
Sue McNeil, professor of urban planning and policy and director of CUPPA's Urban Transportation Center, will be leaving CUPPA to join the faculty at the University of Delaware's Civil Engineering program. A message will be forthcoming from the dean.
Chirag Mehta, CUED's economic development planner, will be leaving CUPPA to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) on May 1.
Current PA Visiting Assistant Professor Yonghong Wu will become an assistant professor of Public Administration in fall 2005. He received his Ph.D. in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University in May 2004 with specializations in budgeting and public finance, technology policy, and public administration theory.
In fall 2005, Dr. Karen Mossberger will join the PA faculty as tenured associate professor after spending seven years at Kent State University. Dr. Mossberger's research interests include information technology, digital divide, economic development, and policy analysis. She is the author of The Politics of Ideas and the Spread of the Enterprise Zones (2000) and Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide (2003).
Philip Ashton will become assistant professor of Urban Planning and Policy in the fall. He is about to receive his Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy Development from Rutgers University for his dissertation entitled, "The Changing Institutional Landscape of Central City Mortgage Markets."
Moira Zellner is completing her Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning at University of Michigan and will join the college as assistant professor of Urban Planning and Policy in spring of 2006. Zellner's dissertation is "Generating Policy Recommendations for Sustainable Water Use: An Integrated Land Use and Water Use Model of Monroe County, Michigan."
Save the Date:
March 22: CUPPA Alumni Association Board Meeting, 6-7:30 p.m., CUPPA Hall Room 110
April 1: UTC Seminar Series with Darcy Bullock, Purdue University
April 5: CUPPA Alumni Association Spring Speakers Series - Faith-Based Planning: What is the Role of Religious Institutions in Community Development?, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
April 22: CUPPA Faculty Development Day
April 26: CUPPA Alumni Association Spring Speakers Series - Regionalism Revisited: What's in the Future for Regional Planning Agencies?, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
May 7: CUPPA Commencement, 10:00 a.m., Student Center East (formerly CCC), Illinois Room
CUPPA Briefing i s an electronic publication by the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs for faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Published and distributed via email monthly during or after the week following the meeting of the CUPPA Cabinet, CUPPA Briefing 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 Communication, jmwhite@uic.edu , 3-9127.
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