Jim Schwab, '85, now a senior research associate for the American Planning Association, was highlighted in a May 13 article in The New York Times as "a guru of disaster recovery." See the full article

Our new incoming students attended their orientation on Friday, August 24th, and took a moment to pose for a group picture. The group of 22 includes students who completed their undergraduate educations as far away as Haiti, China and India.

The University of Iowa's planning program was represented at this spring's APA meetings in Philadelphia by 18 students, one faculty member, and dozens of alumni.

William Millar is a 1972 graduate. As president of the American Public Transportation Association, Mr.

Carlton Eley, a 1998 URP graduate, is an environmental protection specialist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Development, Community and Environment Division.

Richard Martinez, a 1996 graduate, is Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in Urban Planning at UCLA in 2002. His research focuses on Organizations and institutions. Social power.

Robert W. Becker, a 1971 graduate, serves as Chief Executive Officer for the City Park Improvement Association in New Orleans.

On October 23-29, thirty-seven students and three professors from the Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning went to New Orleans to learn what is being done to plan the city's reconstruction in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent f

Donald Mazziotti, a 1972 graduate, is Senior Vice President for Urban Development with Harsch Investment Properties, in Portland, Oregon. From 2001 to 2004, Don was the Executive Director of the Portland Development Commission.

Michael Bodaken, President of the National Housing Trust/Enterprise Preservation Corporation, entertained students in the Housing Finance class recently with the story of how he ended up in community development, via tenant organizing in Topeka, Kansas,