Neha Sami Receives Two-Year Fellowship
URP Ph.D. student Neha Sami has been awarded a two-year fellowship from the Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (FURS) in the UK. The fellowship is designed to defray tuition and living expenses for the next two years. Congratulations, Neha!
TCAUP Ph.D. Faculty Receive High Marks in
Scholarly Productivity Index
Salila Vanka Announced as Winner of Rackham International Student Fellowship
Ph.D. in Urban + Regional Planning student Salila Vanka has won a Rackham International Student Fellowship for 2007/08. Winners each receive $7,500 for 2008. The Rackham International Student Fellowship assists outstanding international students, particularly those who may be ineligible for other kinds of support because of citizenship.
June Manning Thomas Appointed as
Inaugural Centennial Professor
of Urban + Regional Planning
June Manning Thomas, the first Centennial Professor in Urban + Regional Planning, begins teaching at TCAUP in September 2007. Her primary area of interest is social justice, particularly as it relates to race and ethnicity. For Professor Thomas, social justice in urban planning is an article of faith as well as a lifelong goal.
Read more about Dr. Thomas and her work...
Shatkin's Collective Action
and Urban Poverty Alleviation Published
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning Gavin Shatkin's book, Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation: Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila, has just been published by published by Ashgate: Aldershot, Hampshire, UK. 2007. Collective Action questions whether communities have the ability to organize, engage government and undertake major redevelopment. It also examines when and how mobilization of communities occurs and if such organizations possess any influence in the intensely political decision-making arena of urban land development.
Sami Wins 2007–08 Barbour Fellowship
Congratulations to URP Ph.D. student Neha Sami in winning the prestigious Barbour Fellowship. The Barbour Scholarship program was established in 1914 at the University of Michigan to train young women in modern science, medicine, mathematics and other specialties critical to the development of their native lands. More about the Fellowship...
Robert W. Marans Fellowship Fund
Supporting study in survey research by incoming doctoral students in Urban + Regional Planning or Architecture. Learn More...
The doctoral curriculum
integrates analytical methods, research design, a rigorous understanding of urbanization dynamics, and an examination of broader social processes and policies. Students address complex systems that typically encompass an array of spatial, environmental, social, political, technical, and economic factors. The emphasis is on theory, analysis and action. Each student is also expected to demonstrate an understanding of the literature, theory, and research in a specialization area within the larger discipline of urban and regional planning. More...
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