Assistant Professor Steve Spears recently won the Best Poster award at the ACSP (Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning) annual meeting in Denver, CO.

Sadya Islam and Trang Mai recently received first place in the 2017 Upper Midwest American Planning Association Student Poster Contest.

Alum Kwame Owusu-Daaku, class of 2013, has completed his PhD in Geography at the University of South Carolina.

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.