Prof. Jesus Barajas will offer UP 494-JB, Transportation Planning Workshop this fall. In this course, students will participate in research for Pace Transit, the transit operator for suburban Chicago. Students will work in communities to document challenges and recommend solutions of implementing pedestrian infrastructure in Pace's service area. Read more.

Juan Salgado, chancellor at City Colleges of Chicago and MUP '93 graduate, will speak at the departments convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 11. Read more.

The Consortium for Scenario Planning, a Lincoln Institute initiative, announced the winners of its RFP for Impactful Projects: Eastgate Regional Council of Governments, GreaterPlaces, the National Center for Smart Growth, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Read more.

Professor Marc Doussard has been selected as 2018 JPER (Journal of Planning Education Research) top Reviewer Award - Non-Editorial Board Member. Read more.

Congratulations to our faculty and teaching assistants who made the Fall '18 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students: Dustin Allred/UP 503; Marc Doussard/UP 330 and 545; Mary Edwards/UP 407; Efad Huq/UP 260; Bala Balachandran/UP 447; Md. Tanvir Hossain Shubho/UP 418 and Ati Ashtari/UP 101 (TA).