Articles from March 2009
![NSF Grant Awarded to Study New Measurement of Taxes on Growth NSF Grant Awarded to Study New Measurement of Taxes on Growth](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/NSF.jpg?h=97d68dfd&itok=NkrJi9Q6)
NSF Grant Awarded to Study New Measurement of Taxes on Growth
Alan Peters, Peter Fisher and Rick Funderburg, at the University of Iowa, and Tim Bartik, at the W.E.
![Community Outreach Practicum Students Support University’s Sustainability Initiative Community Outreach Practicum Students Support University’s Sustainability Initiative](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/TiffanyAndSara_0.jpg?h=0b87403b&itok=TlOdY8sf)
Community Outreach Practicum Students Support University’s Sustainability Initiative
![Forkenbrock Symposium: Living With Floods Forkenbrock Symposium: Living With Floods](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/FloodSymposium.jpg?h=f3245c65&itok=TID9D3gT)
Forkenbrock Symposium: Living With Floods
"Living With Floods: From Science to Policy" is the next symposium to be offered in the Forkenbrock Series on Public Policy.
![Open House Open House](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/Ben_Goldsworthy.gif?h=881888aa&itok=ldrU9bw1)
Upcoming Presentation by Professor Ole Jensen from Denmark
On April 20 and 21 Urban and Regional Planning will be hosting a visit by Professor Ole Jensen from Aalborg, Denmark. While here, Prof.
![URP Student Wins EPA Award for Sustainability Project URP Student Wins EPA Award for Sustainability Project](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/JoelDonhamteam3.jpg?h=1b2603d5&itok=hjynNC79)
URP Student Wins EPA Award for Sustainability Project
A team of UI students, including first-year student Joel Donham, competed in the Environmental Protection Agency's Annual P3 (People, Prosperity, and the Planet) Award competition and won a prestigious Phase II Design Award at the National Sustainable D
![Helping a Cedar Rapids Neighborhood Helping a Cedar Rapids Neighborhood](/sites/sppa.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-07/attached_images/CleanUpCedarRapids.jpg?h=f6fdc9f4&itok=9d_RfylI)
Helping a Cedar Rapids Neighborhood
As many of you know, Cedar Rapids was hit very hard by the record flood of June 2008. The Time-Check neighborhood on the northwest side of the city was among the most devastated. On October 12, Asst. Prof.