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.

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.

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).

Jesse Thomas, a second year MUP student, has been awarded the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship. The program awards fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines. It advances the transportation workforce by helping to attract the nation's brightest minds to the field of transportation, encouraging future transportation professionals to seek advnaced degrees, and helping to retain top talent in the U.S. transportation industry. Read more about Fellowship.

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.