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October 23,2009
PPPM Students Organize 7th Annual Northwest Student Transportation Conference The conference is run entirely for and by students and includes both student presentations and a poster session to showcase the great student-led transportation research being done in the Northwest.
September 3,2009
2009 MPA Graduate Selected as ICMA Local Government Management Fellow Neil Obringer was one of thirteen Fellows selected in this highly competitive year.
June 24,2009
UO professors receive Williams Grant to create new course Pat Curtin (School of Journalism and Telecommunications) and Renee Irvin (PPPM Department) will team up to offer a new course in Public Relations for Nonprofit Organizations.
June 23,2009
PPPM student selected for U.S. Forest Service internship Sasha Fertig has been selected to participate in the U.S. Forest Service Student Career Experience Program (SCEP) this summer.
June 16,2009
Two UO professors recognized as most cited authors in planning journal report Articles site research on walkable cities and community health by Marc Schlossberg and Jessica Greene
June 1,2009
MPA Student Blogs About Intern Experiences with NGO in India Lindsey Adkisson is spending the summer in New Dehli helping an NGO called MAMTA- Health Institute for Mother and Child diversify its funding stream.
April 30,2009
Two PPPM Faculty Selected for Fulbrights Renee Irvin and Marc Schlossberg will be going to China and the United Kingdom as Fulbright Scholars this next academic year.
April 21,2009
UO professor selected by Governor Kulongoski to join advisory group Robert Young will join other sustainability experts to review federal stimulus projects.
April 6,2009
Planning student selected for National Transportation Leadership Conference Sara Schooley will attend Washington D.C. conference in May.
April 3,2009
PPPM Professor Appointed by Governor to Advisory Group Robert Young was recently appointment by Governor Kulongoski to serve on the Oregon Way Advisory Group (OWAG).
February 23,2009
Best Career Choices for 2009: Urban Planner and Landscape Architect U.S. News & World Report identified Landscape Architecture and Urban Planner among the best careers choices for 2009.
January 16,2009
UO faculty members and alumna commissioned by National Poverty Center Research report on food access in Portland, Oregon to share spotlight on social problem
January 7,2009
UO Offers Ecological Design Certificate Interdisciplinary certificate now open to graduate students in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts
December 5,2008
UO kicks off 15th year of RARE Program as community interns embark on 11-month program to improve rural Oregon communities $345,000 in funding from Ford Family Foundation and UO awarded to RARE to support long-term program development
November 13,2008
University of Oregon Student Wins OTREC Student of the Year Award University of Oregon student Christo Brehm has just been named as the 2008 OTREC Student of the Year by the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC).
September 30,2008
PPPM Hosts International Forum In September 2008, the PPPM Department hosted an international forum on cross-regional collaboration.
September 26,2008
PPPM Faculty and Alumna Commissioned for National Conference Presentation The National Poverty Center Commissions Neil Bania, Laura Leete and Andrea Sparks to present a paper that builds on Sparks' Masters thesis.
August 6,2008
Professor Irvin sees Mercy Corps approach likely to build success Article featured in The Oregonian on OregonLive.com, by Stephen Beaven, Oregonian staff.
July 17,2008
PPPM Faculty Quoted in MSN Article on Walkability Prof. Marc Schlossberg is quoted in "America's Most Walkable Big Cities."
July 15,2008
Now Accepting Applications for Tenure Track Faculty Positions Two tenure track positions are now open for application at the Assistant or Associate level.
June 5,2008
PPPM Faculty and Student Receive School Awards Assistant Professor Yizhao Yang and Masters candidate Nicholas Kraemer are awarded the 2008-09 A&AA Dean's Award and Yeon Program Grant.
May 9,2008
Three PPPM graduate students appointed as Presidential Management Fellows The Presidential Management Fellows Program is a highly competitive program established in 1977 to attract outstanding graduate students to federal service.
April 11,2008
Undergraduate Mai Le selected for inaugural class of City Hall Fellows Mai will be working as a Fellow for the City of San Francisco starting this August. This competitive program selected fewer than 5% of the over 400 applicants.
April 11,2008
PPPM Grad Students Receive OAPA Student Achievement Award The Oregon chapter of the American Planning Association (OAPA) awarded a team of PPPM graduate students for their HUD project.
April 11,2008
Professor Schlossberg's Student Wins National Paper Award Cody Evers' paper, 'Spotted Owls and Landscape-Guided Forest Management' won the Best Paper on Technology in Planning under the IT Division of the American Planning Association.
April 4,2008
Three PPPM graduate students selected as Presidential Management Finalists! Lee Pera, Matthew Peterson, and Andrea Sparks were selected for the prestigious PMF program. The PMF program draws outstanding graduate students into leadership and management positions in the Federal Government.
April 1,2008
SeQuential Launches Inaugural Carbon Challenge Sequential Biofuels, whose Chairman Tomas Endicott is a PPPM graduate, is launching its inaugural Carbon Challenge for Earth Month. More in the Register Guard news article linked.
March 20,2008
Graduate student Christy Desermeaux to run Democrat Rick Goche's campaign for the Oregon Legislature Desermeaux came to the UO with a goal of working in state politics. After interning with Congressman DeFazio's campaign office and seeking out campaign training, she was selected to run Goche's bid for the Oregon House of Representatives (District 1).
March 13,2008
University of Oregon Students Give $5,000 to Local Child Advocacy Program Students enrolled in PPPM 199 American Philanthropy presented a $5,000 check today to CASA of Lane County.
March 6,2008
MPA Grad Student Presents Research at American Association of Geographers Meeting Graduate student Lee Pera has been invited to present her terminal project research entitled "Amenity migration in the Americas: population and policy in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama" at the American Association of Geographers meeting April 15-19th in
January 18,2008
PPPM 199 American Philanthropy Grant Awards Presentation The PPPM 199 American Philanthropy class will award their Wells Fargo grant money to local charity applicants on Thursday, March 13. Location to be announced.
December 6,2007
PPPM faculty members are awarded 2 of the 20 UO Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards Renee A. Irvin and Marc Schlossberg are recognized for their exemplary teaching and research.
November 28,2007
University of Oregon students award $10,000 to Eugene nonprofit agencies Two Eugene nonprofit agencies split $10,000 in grants from a University of Oregon graduate course in philanthropy.
October 18,2007
Alumna in the News: Melanie Mintz Using resourcefulness and passion to create livable cities.
October 15,2007
Professor Hibbard Participates in Sustainable Urban Development Seminar in China In July 2007, Professor Mike Hibbard participated in an invitation-only seminar in Shenzhen, China, on sustainable urban development.
October 15,2007
Professor Hibbard To Serve as President of Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Professor Mike Hibbard will serve as President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning from 2007 to 2009. Professor Hibbard was elected to this position two years ago and he has served as Vice President/President-elect from 2005 to 2007.
October 15,2007
Professor Leete Co-Authors Book on Emerging Labor Market Institutions Laura Leete, PPPM faculty member is co-author of a book published by the Russell Sage Foundation Press in April 2007.
October 15,2007
Professor Leete Co-Authors Article on Leadership Training for State Senators Laura Leete, PPPM faculty is co-author of an article published in the Spring/Summer 2007 issue of the Journal of Public Affairs Education, the flagship journal of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA).
October 8,2007
PPPM Awards Professor Schlossberg Tenure The Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management is pleased to announce Professor Marc Schlossberg's award of tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.
August 15,2007
New CHCS Briefs Document Consumer-Directed Policy Approaches in Medicaid The Center for Health Care Strategies published three recent reports by Professor Jessica Greene on the trend towards increasing the role and responsibilities of Medicaid health care consumers."
July 11,2007
PPPM student and RARE intern makes proposal to Veneta City Council for pedestrian and bicycle paths for commuter and recreational use An ambitious network of trails could pave this growing community's path from a timber-to-tourism-based economy.
June 5,2007
Julia Demichelis to Host Forum on International Development Global humanitarian and PPPM alumna, Julia Demichelis, will host an open forum about international development on Friday, June 15 at the University of Oregon.
May 30,2007
UO Civil Rights on Exhibit PPPM senior Daniel Keller is the creator of Civil Rights at the UO, Past and Present, which is on display in the east and west corridors of the Knight Library.
May 16,2007
PPPM Student Wins Position on LCC Board Tony McCown, a PPPM student, received 60 percent of the vote for a position on the Lane Community College Board.
March 13,2007
Winners of the Wells Fargo/Weyerhaeuser/PPPM 199 Philanthropy Awards The PPPM 199 Freshman Seminar in American Philanthropy awarded corporate-sponsored awards to the Relief Nursery and Sponsors Inc.
March 5,2007
Neil Bania's article on university research and the formation of new companies to be reprinted in Technological Entrepreneurship Associate Professor Neil Bania's article, "Universities and the Startup of New Companies: Can We Generalize from Route 128 and Silicon Valley?" will be reprinted this spring in Technological Entrepreneurship, (Edward Elgar Publishing).
March 1,2007
PPPM Professor Renee Irvin's Article on Citizen Participation to be Reprinted in the International Journal of Public Participation Associate Professor Irvin's 2004 article on citizen participation has been selected for reprinting in the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Public Participation.
February 28,2007
Transportation Study Receives Outstanding Paper Award Pedestrian walkability study by UO and SJSU team honored at annual meeting of Transportation Research Board.
February 8,2007
Student's Walkability Study Accepted for Presentation at GIS in Public Health Conference "The Influence of Safety and Walkability on Physical Activity and Obesity Among Low Income Children" will be presented in May in New Orleans
February 8,2007
International Rural Community Partnership Project Oregon Business Magazine highlights PPPM undergraduate creating development-focused rural community partnerships between Finland and Oregon
February 7,2007
Health Care Researcher To Testify Before Oregon Senate Special Committee Judith Hibbard will testify before the Oregon Senate special committee on health care reform
February 2,2007
Distinguished Alumna to be Honored for Ellis F. Lawrence Medal Julia Demichelis (MUP '91) will be awarded the 2007 Ellis F. Lawrence Medal by the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the June 16, 2007 Commencement ceremonies.
January 25,2007
Transportation Paper Receives Outstanding Paper Award A faculty-student collaboration was presented with a transportation conference award for 2007 Outstanding Paper presentation.
January 22,2007
Philanthropy Class Learns Hands-On PPPM 199 Seminar in Philanthropy uses sponsored money to award grants to local nonprofits.
January 8,2007
Resource Innovations Receives Mayor's Award Resource Innovations receives one of five Mayor's Awards at the State of the City presentation January 4, 2007.
October 5,2006
Race, Segregation, and Physicians' Participation in Medicaid Professor Jessica Greene recently published a study that found that Medicaid patient race/ethnicity and racial/ethnic segregation influence physicians' participation in Medicaid.
October 5,2006
Paper Selected for National Conference Neil Bania's paper was one of eleven selected for a conference jointly sponsored by the National Poverty Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, U-Michigan, & the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
    
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