April 3, 2007

March CUPPA Briefing

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

A visit from the Voorhees family
Scott Voorhees and Susan Voorhees Hunt, two of the children of Alan Voorhees, founder of the Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement, will be visiting CUPPA and the Voorhees Center on April 20 in preparation for the April 21 "Evening at UIC" event during which their father will receive a special posthumous recognition for his support of the Center. As Alan passed away at the age of 83 in December 2005, this event and visit will provide a special opportunity to celebrate his generosity and share its importance with his family.

Spring 2007 dissertation defenses
Todd Bapton, Master’s candidate in Civil Engineering, TBD
Calibration of Advanced Transportation Management System and Road Test of Ramp Metering Algorithms

Daisuke Misuzawa, PhD candidate in Urban Planning and Policy, March 7
Strategic Directions for Implementing Asset Management: Quantifying Benefits of Asset Management

John C. Mukasa-Ssebaana, PhD candidate in Public Administration, March 16
Institutionalization of Planned Change in Public Child Welfare Organizations

Peng Wang, Master’s candidate in Civil Engineering, TBD
Bus Route Schedule Adherence Assessment Using Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) Data

UTC PhD students awarded scholarships
Liang Long, PhD candidate in Civil and Materials Engineering and graduate assistant in the Urban Transportation Center (UTC) has been awarded a 2007 Illinois Section of the American Society for Civil Engineers scholarship. Wenjing Pu, also a candidate in Civil and Materials Engineering and an associate in UTC, has received a 2007 Illinois Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers scholarship. Our congratulations!

SRL hosts Fifth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation
Staff members in the Survey Research Laboratory (SRL) worked tirelessly with members of The International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI) to bring together a successful Fifth International Workshop on Comparative Survey Design from March 29 to 31 on the UIC campus, providing a forum and platform for researchers involved in research requiring comparative survey methods.

EVENTS:                                                              

For more details on CUPPA events, visit: http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/news.html#events   
 
Tuesday, April 3 at 1:00 pm, GCI conference room
Challenges in Planning for Hajj, the Annual Muslims' Pilgrimage to Makkah: Spatial Modeling for Complex Planning
Kheir Al-Kodmany, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate, Professor, Urban Planning and Policy

Tuesday, April 3 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm, Room 146 CUPPA Hall
Public Administration Resume Workshop
Dale Rush, MPA 2004 and Presidential Management Fellow 2005, General Services Administration
Open to students attending the April 12th Public Administration Career Fair. Contact Jamie Masterson at jaime43@uic.edu to obtain a time slot.

Wednesday, April 4 at 3:00 pm, Room 110 CUPPA Hall                                            
Hoy marchamos, mañana votamos:  Educational Dimensions of Immigrant Mobilization
An IRRPP Critical Issues Series lecture presented by:
Dr. Irma Olmedo, PhD, Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education

Thursday, April 5 at 5:00 pm, Student Center East, Cardinal Room
The University and the City: Real Estate Development by the Knowledge Industry
The Inaugural Wiewel Lecture in Urban and Economic Development
presented by: Wim Wiewel, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of Baltimore; David Perry, Director, Great Cities Institute
RSVP to David Morley at 312-996-2569.
 
Friday, April 6 at Noon, Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Pathways or Better Jobs?: Alternatives to Problems of Job Quality in Low-Wage Service Work
A UPP Friday Forum presented by: Greg Schrock, Urban Planning and Policy Ph.D. student

Friday, April 6 at 2:00 pm, Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Address Matching Tricks
An Advanced GIS Topics Seminar presented by:
Nina Savar, GIS Coordinator, Great Cities Data Visualization Laboratory

Thursday, April 12 from 3:00 to 6:00 pm, Rooms 105 and 110 CUPPA Hall
Public Administration Career Fair
RSVP to Jamie Masterson at jaime43@uic.edu .
 
Thursday, April 12 at 3:00 pm, GCI conference room
A Puerto Rican Community Responds to the HIV/AIDS Crisis: The Role of Social and Cultural Capital
Michele Kelley, Associate Professor, Division of Community Health Sciences
Alejandro Luis Molina, Puerto Rican Cultural Center
 
Friday, April 13 at 10:00 am, GCI conference room
The global discourse of modern higher education
Professor Frank Gaffikin, Queen’s University, Belfast
 
Monday, April 16 at 10:00 am, UTC conference room
Model Linkages, Part II; Population wages, Prices, Profits, Market Share
Regional Economic Models, Session 4 presented by: Dr. Mark D’Amato, Senior Economist; Julie Gressley, Associate Economist
 
Tuesday, April 17 at 3:00 pm, Jane Addams Hull-House
Art, Race and Place: Transforming Self and Community
Essie Robeson and Community Murals in Chicago: 2 Case Studies
A Faculty Scholar Seminar panel presentation by: Olivia Gude, Associate Professor, School of Art and Design; Barbara Ransby, Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies/Department of History
 
Thursday, April 19 at 4:00 pm, Room 110 CUPPA Hall
UK Urban Planning after Tony Blair – Lessons for the US
A CUPPA International Lecture presented by:
Jim Claydon, President of the UK Royal Town Planning Institute
 
Friday, April 20 at Noon, Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Evaluation of Government Interventions to Achieve Public and Private Transportation
Modes Share Balance Using Agent-Based Modeling
A UPP Friday Forum presented by: Yandan Lu, Urban Planning and Policy Ph.D. student
 
Friday, April 20 at 2:00 pm, Room 110 CUPPA Hall
Intro to Geodatabase
An Advanced GIS Topics Seminar presented by: Dawn McWha, ESRI

Monday, April 30 at 10:00 am, UTC conference room
Model Linkages, Part III; Economic Geography
Regional Economic Models, Inc. Session 5 presented by: Dr. Mark D'Amato, Senior Economist; Julie Gressley, Associate Economist

Wednesday, May 2 at 9:00 am, Illinois Room, Student Center East
Third annual Richard J. Daley Urban Forum
Panelists, including Director of Public Administration Michael Pagano, will examine the roles that major infrastructure projects will play in developing and sustaining future cities. Forum tickets cost $25 and include a continental breakfast, lunch and parking. UIC faculty, staff and students, as well as students from other colleges and universities, will receive complimentary admission. To register, or receive more information, please visit http://www.RJDUrbanforum.uic.edu .

Thursday, May 10 at 4:00 pm, Room 110 CUPPA Hall
The Strategic Planning of Milan – Lessons for the US
A CUPPA International Lecture presented by: Professor Sandro Balducci, Politecnico di Milano

PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS:

Recent publications
Thakuriah, P. and Y. Liao (2007). Transportation Expenditures and Ability to Pay. Evidence from Consumer Expenditure Survey. In Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Vol. 1985, pp.257-267.

Thakuriah, P., P.S Sriraj, S. Soot and Y. Liao (2007). Determinants of Perceived Importance of Targeted Transportation Services for Low-Income Riders. In Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Vol. 1986, pp. 145-153.

Recent presentations
Kawamura, K. (2007). Discussant for Why Do Some Rural Communities Prosper While Others Do Not by Andrew  M. Isserman and Edward Feser. In IGPA Research Conference, held on March 9.
 
Bapton, T., and A. Mohammadian (2007). Road Test and Effectiveness of Ramp Metering Algorithms. In ITS Midwest Annual Meeting, Lincolnshire, IL, March 21-22.

Cottrill, Caitlin (2007). Privacy Issues in Intelligent Transportation Systems. In IGERT Seminar Series, March 21.

Soot, S. (2007) Data on the Horizon: LEHD and CTPP. Presentation made in the Chicago chapter of the Transportation Research Forum, March 21.

The Publications and Presentations list is compiled from unit updates submitted prior to each CUPPA Cabinet meeting to angelas@uic.edu.


COMINGS and GOINGS:

Yingling Fan, Visiting Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Yingling Fan, who is currently completing her PhD degree in City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will join the CUPPA faculty in August 2007 as Visiting Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Policy (UPP), pending Board of Trustees Approval. Yingling, who obtained her first degree in Transportation Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, specializes in transportation and land use and will hold a Visiting Research Assistant Professorship at the Urban Transportation Center (UTC). We look forward to welcoming her to CUPPA.

SAVE THE DATE:

May 12: CUPPA Commencement

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 Angela Seeley, the Assistant to the Associate Dean, at angelas@uic.edu or 312-413-5445.