School of Planning, Public Policy and Management News

PPPM Faculty, Nicole Ngo, recently published research observing the negative outcomes related to aggressive policing and racial profiling. Aggressive policing tactics like stop-and-frisk are linked to worse newborn health outcomes in neighborhoods where such tactics are most pervasive. Babies of non-Hispanic Black mothers had lower birth weights in New York City neighborhoods where police made more on-the-street stops, even when controlling for variables like income and education, according to the research, which analyzed data from 2006 to 2013.

The latest study from co-author and PPPM associate professor, Nicole Ngo, explores and offers important insights for public safety and efforts to reduce gaps for infant health disparities that correlate with race. Published in the journal Social Science & Medicine and reported on by KOIN, the study found aggressive policing tactics, such as stop-and-frisk, are connected to worse outcomes for newborn health in neighborhoods where these tactics are more pervasive.

IPRE Faculty and PPPM MCRP Alumna, Melissa Graciosa, joins MCRP Alumnus, Eric Mongan, and PPPM Alumnus, Fabian Gomez Hernandez, on a Housing Taskforce for Lane County. The group will work on a project to guide how Lane County acquires, prepares and resells parcels of land, with an eye toward spurring affordable housing development in communities across the county.

PPPM Professor, Diana Mason, talked alongside other volunteer experts to KLCC about the new trends in volunteering, where volunteers are engaging in shorter terms of engagement instead of long, multiyear engagements with hundreds of hours of service dedicated to a single organization in a year.

The Sustainable City Year Program started with a simple question: How can students’ innovative work be put into practice for the benefit of Oregonians? In 2009, that question moved University of Oregon College of Design professors Nico Larco and Marc Schlossberg to launch a program that, over the past 16 years, has employed the ingenuity and hard work of thousands of students on hundreds of projects for communities across Oregon.

Ben Clark joins experts in an article from "THE BALTIMORE SUN" about the pros and cons of creating/instituting a statewide 311 network. With the 911 calls being burdened by important issues (e.g. potholes and trees falling down) that don't rise to emergency status (e.g. fires or a medical emergency), the 311 network is seen as a way to help relieve some of that burden on 911 operators. The article explores the pros and cons of such a statewide network.

Associate Professor and Director of the Master's in Nonprofit Management Program, Dyana Mason, talks with Mike Rogoway at "The Oregonian" about the circumstances surrounding Rep. Greg Smith, Inland Development Corp., Morrow Development Corp., and Windwave Communications.

RARE director, Titus Tomlinson, and others talk about the impact of Federal cuts to AmeriCorps funding, hurting young professionals and rural communities alike.

Nicole Ngo's work was recognized by Office of the Provost's Teaching Engagement Program. This particular Sustainability Award recognizes faculty who have developed pedagogy and curriculum that reinforce and advance principles of sustainability through course design and instruction. For more information, watch Ngo's video on Youtube!