Articles from March 2009

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

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.

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
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
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.