School of Planning, Public Policy and Management News

PPPM faculty member, student honored with MLK Jr. awards

Assistant Professor Gerardo Sandoval and graduate student Lok Yee Au have been honored with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Awards, presented by the University of Oregon.

UO’s Sustainable Cities recognized for social entrepreneurship

The University of Oregon’s Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) is among six winners selected f

PPPM’s Schlossberg wins rare second Fulbright

Professor Marc Schlossberg has been awarded a rare second Fulbright Scholarship, this time to work with faculty at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, where he will collaborate with colleagues in the institute’s Department of Architecture a

Irvin attends invitation-only event at White House

Associate Professor Renee Irvin, director of the Master of Nonprofit Management Program at UO, was invited recently by the White House to gather with the nation’s top 100 civi

Legacy gift honors faculty mentor

Laura H. Sampson, DEd ’80, sees her estate gift to the Arts and Administration Program (AAD) as an opportunity to help students and to honor Effie Lu Fairchild, her faculty mentor.

UO student wins $16,000 Sea Grant award

Oregon Sea Grant has selected Sarah Allison as the recipient of the 2014-2016 Resilience and Adaptation Graduate Fellowship.

Three from A&AA win faculty awards

Three School of Architecture and Allied Arts faculty members were among the thirteen recipients of the 2014-15 school year Fund for Faculty Excellence Award.

Abia-Smith named museum art educator of year

Lisa Abia-Smith, director of education at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and an instructor in the Arts and Administration Program, has been named Oregon Museum Education Art Educator of the Year by the

Sandoval wins award for best paper in 2013

A peer-reviewed journal article by Assistant Professor Gerardo Sandoval has won the Chester Rapkin Award For Best Paper in the 2013 Journal of Planning Education and Research.

Arts and Administration Program marks 20th anniversary

The Arts and Administration Program welcomed its first cohort of students 20 years ago, in fall term 1994.

48-Hour Project presses students to analyze, evaluate, and make policies

The potential of tuition-free community college and toxic chemical regulation reform were among the issues addressed in late September by students from the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management.

A&AA welcomes new faculty

A&AA welcomes three new tenure-track faculty members for the 2014-15 academic year.

Scholarship opens personal door to China

Note to students wanting to live and work—and skateboard—abroad: 

PPPM sophomore will use award to study in China

Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM) undergraduate Erik Thorbeck has been awarded a prestigi

Chronicle of Higher Education touts SCI model

The UO's Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) has been mentioned again in the Chronicle of Higher Education in a story entitled “Want a College Experience That Matters? Get to Work”.