Another heavy snowfall has slammed into Iowa City and the University of Iowa, the third in just a few days. But Irving Weber, whose statue stands at the corner of Iowa Avenue and Linn Street, seemed not to mind.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

327 Jessup Hall

Congratulations to Kara Homan, this year’s AICP Outstanding Student Award recipient. Each year the Urban and Regional Planning faculty select one graduating student to receive the AICP Outstanding Student award.

Planning program faculty member Jim Throgmorton has organized an upcoming symposium focusing on the discourse surrounding environmental justice and sustainability. The symposium begins on Monday, Oct. 8th with additional events on Oct. 9th, Nov.

On October 8 and 9, Timothy Beatley, will make several presentations on campus as an Ida Beam Visiting Professor.

URP alum, Bill Millar, will be delivering the keynote address at BusCon 2007, America's Biggest Bus Show, on October 2nd in Chicago.

Two MacArthur Prize ("genius award") winners will be among the featured contributors to a "Toxic Talk" conference that Jim Throgmorton has been organizing. The conference will take place on Friday and Saturday (November 2-3).

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Evaluations in development economics and regional policy in general have historically been plagued by the so-called counterfactual. What would have happened anyway if the event had not occurred or the policy had not been adopted?

Jim Schwab, '85, now a senior research associate for the American Planning Association, was highlighted in a May 13 article in The New York Times as "a guru of disaster recovery." See the full article