June 28, 2006

June CUPPA Briefing


ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Jaffe New UPP Director
UPP Associate Professor Martin Jaffe has been appointed as UPP director pending Board of Trustee approval. Jaffe replaces UPP Associate Professor Curt Winkle who served as director for the past three years and will be returning to the faculty. Jaffe most recently served as the coastal business & environment specialist for the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program and is a faculty fellow in the Great Cities Institute. He received his J.D. degree from Wayne State University Law School in 1973 and his LL.M. in 1984 from the DePaul University College of Law. His research specialties include land use and environmental law and planning.

Congratulations to Marilyn Ruiz
Marilyn, one of CUPPA's proud Navy Pier attendees, recently served as a member of the 60th Anniversary Reunion Committee of the UIC Alumni Association.

Mossberger and Thompson in PAR
PA Professor Karen Mossberger's article, "The Effects of E-Government on Trust and Confidence in Government," appeared in the May/June issue of Public Administration Review. Professor Jim Thompson's article on the civil service entitled "The Federal Civil Service: The Demise of an Institution" is coming out in the July/August issue.

World Planning Schools Congress, Mexico City, July 11-15, 2006
The first World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC), bringing together academic planners from across the world, was held in Shanghai in 2001. It was great success and now, five years later, the second WPSC takes place in Mexico City. CUPPA is well represented at this important international gathering and colleagues giving papers include Professors Kheir Al-Kodmany, John Betancur, Robin Hambleton, Charlie Hoch, David Perry, Vonu Thakuriah, and Tingwei Zhang.

Fund-raising for Faculty - The CUPPA Agenda
An overview and discussion of the CUPPA fund-raising agenda will be held for CUPPA faculty on Wednesday, August 23, from 2-3:30 p.m. in room 110. Associate Chancellor Penny Hunt and CUPPA Advancement Director Karen Berthiaume will be on-hand to discuss the upcoming UIC Capital Campaign.

GCI Adds New Working Papers to Site
The following papers have been added to the Great Cities Institute Working Papers Website at
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/publications/working%20paper%20series/year/2006.htm.

  • Regionalizing the Global-Local Economic Nexus: A Tale of Two Regions in China
    Xiangming Chen, Professor of Sociology
  • Financing Infrastructure in the 21st Century City: “How Did I Get Stuck Holding the Bag?”
    Michael A. Pagano, Professor and Director of Public Administration, and David C. Perry, Director of Great Cities Institute
  • From Daley to Daley: Chicago Politics from 1955-2006
    Dick Simpson, Associate Professor, Department of History and Professor, Department of Political Science
  • Marketing Safe Sex: The Politics of Sexuality, Race and Class in San Francisco, 1983-1991
    Jennifer Brier, Gender and Women's Studies Program/History Department

UTC Receives NSF IGERT
The Urban Transportation Center along with several other UIC departments received a $3.1 million National Science Foundation IGERT grant to establish a doctoral program on Computational Transportation. The program will involve transportation specialists along with computer scientists and business management specialists to conduct basic research in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Highlights from June 22, 2006 Safety Security and Building Conditions Meetings:

  • An evacuation drill for CUPPAH is being planned for Fall 2006.
  • The Dean’s Office copy room has been moved to 145 CUPPAH. The key to the old copy room will work on the door to the new copy room.
  • New (simpler) procedures are in place for requesting I-Card access to locations in CUPPAH and ADH; see http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/admin/howto/bldgaccess.html

Detailed notes from this meeting are at: http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/admin/howto/ssbc.html

CUPPA Alumni Association Board Meeting and Annual Elections
Thirty-four members were elected to the CUPPA Alumni Association board of directors on June 6. See http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/alumni for the list of new board members and minutes of the meeting.

Summer Vacation
The next issue of CUPPABriefing will be emailed after August 23, 2006.

COMINGS AND GOINGS:

Gabrielle Brown joined Public Administration full-time as program coordinator.

Anne Fuller, MPA '06, joined SRL as visiting project coordinator.

Davis Jenkins accepted a position as Senior Research Associate, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University.

SAVE THE DATE:

July 4: Holiday - Campus Closed

July 21: Summer Session Ends

August 23: Fund-raising for Faculty - the CUPPA Agenda, 2-3:30 p.m., Room 110

August 28: Fall Semester Begins

September 4: Labor Day - Campus Closed

November 23-24: Thanksgiving Holiday - Campus Closed

December 6: CUPPA Alumni Holiday Party

December 11-15: Fall Semester Final Exam Week

WORTH REPEATING

Podcasts Appearing Now on CUPPA Website
If you missed a recent CUPPA special event or lecture, check out the CUPPA website Podcast link at www.uic.edu/cuppa. You can download various recorded college events in .mp3 format.

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, 3-9127.