DSUP—
Doctoral Students in Urban Planning

Welcome to the Doctoral Students in Urban Planning (DSUP) webpage. This page provides information about current students in the PhD. Program in Regional Planning at the University of Illinois. It also provides resources for those students and others interested in doctoral level work in urban and regional planning. Please email Tim Green, the webpage manager, with any comments or questions at tfgreen@uiuc.edu.

PhD Seminars, Spring 2008

• Jan 30: No Seminar due to faculty search.  Please plan to participate in the search on both Tuesday 1/29 and Friday 2/1.
• Feb 6: No Seminar due to faculty search.  Please plan to participate in the search on both Monday 2/4 and Thursday 2/7.
• Feb 13:  Joanna Ganning, "Capturing Context within a Region and its Communities: Applications of Typologies and Cluster Analyses"
• Feb 20: Marisa Zapata, "Planning across Differences: Developing cross-cultural planning processes to prepare for the future"  Abstract
• Feb 27: T. John Kim, "Role of Transportation in Cities in the Information Age"
• Mar 5:  Edward Feser, "Faculty promotion and tenure (P&T) process"
  Note:  please visit http://www.provost.uiuc.edu/communication/09/index.html for information.
• Mar 12: Jason Brody, "Constructing Professional Knowledge:  The Neighborhood Unit in the Community Builders Handbook"
• Mar 19: Spring Break, no seminar
• Apr 9: Yu Xiao "Local Economic Adjustment after a Major Natural Disaster"
• Apr 16: Alice Novak " Lawyers and Towers and Barns, Oh My! Historic Preservation Outside the Land of Oz"
• Apr 23: Mallory Rahe "Urban Planning and Rural Development"

PhD Seminars, Fall 2007
PhD Seminars, Spring 2007

About DSUP

DSUP formed in the fall of 2006 to address the needs and concerns of the current group of doctoral students in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. DSUP works with the faculty, staff, and students of the department to promote opportunities for doctoral students to research, teach, and obtain funding. We also work to inform the larger UIUC community about the field of urban and regional planning and the work of the department. Click here for a copy of DSUP's bylaws.

DSUP Progress Reports:

Funding Opportunities

• University Conference Travel Award for Graduate Students:  Deadline for students to get applications to departments: February 18, 2008
• University Dissertation Travel Grant: Deadline in the Graduate College Fellowship Office:  March 4, 2008
• SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, National Science Foundation
  Full Proposal Deadline for Geography and Regional Science: February 15, 2008 and October 15, 2008
  Full Proposal Target Date for Law and Social Science: August 15, 2008

Conferences

• 2008 Joint ACSP-AESOP Conference, July 6-11, 2008, Chicago, Illinois
  Abstract submission deadline: Friday, February 8, 2008 at 11:00 PM US Eastern Standard Time
• APA 100th National Planning Conference, April 27-May 1, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada
  Early registration deadline: February 28, 2008
• 2008 Western Regional Science Association Annual Meeting, February 17-20, 2008, Big Island, Hawaii
• 47th Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association, March 26-30, 2008, Washington, DC 
  Deadline for Barry M. Moriarty Graduate Student Paper Competition:  March 1, 2008
• 39th Mid-Continent Regional Science Association Annual Conference, June 5-7, 2008, Colorado Springs, Colorado
  Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2008
  M. Jarvin Emerson Student Paper Competition deadline: April 1, 2008

Useful Links

• Graduate College
• Center for Teaching Excellence
• Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services
• International Student and Scholar Services
• NetLibrary

Last updated:  Feb. 25, 2008