Each summer the University of Iowa Graduate College hosts the Student Research Opportunities Program (SROP).

During the Spring 2017 semester, a group of seven URP students and one graduate student in Art Education completed a community development project with the citizens of Delmar, Iowa.

Sarah Gardner, a spring 2017 graduate, is currently featured on the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s (ACSP) website.

Urban Planning alum, Mike Norris, was recently featured on the University of Iowa Hawkeye Caucus website, which spreads the word about the University’s mission across the entire state of Iowa.

Iowa City has a new shared entrepreneur space and one of URP’s incoming students is part of it.

Emily Seiple, class of 2017, recently won the Best Paper Award from American Planning Association’s Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Planning Division.

Two Students Receive Jim Harris Memorial Scholarship AwardThe Jim Harris Memorial Scholarship Award, established in 2002, is named for the founding chair of the School of Urban and Regional Planning.

Associate Professor Lucie Laurian has been awarded the annual Faculty Award from the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities (IISC).