Moving Towards Sustainable Cities: Linking Climate Action and VLRs
PPPM's Yizhao Yang is a coauthor of this guest article linking Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) to climate action.
Planning, Public Policy and Management
RARE Profiles from the College of Design
At the College of Design, there is a "rare" opportunity for graduating students and alumni looking to gain professional experience and make a difference in Oregon's rural communities. The Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) Program, an AmeriCorps program administered through the Institute for Policy Research and Engagement (IPRE), has been engaging and working alongside rural communities since 1994 to improve their economic, social, and environmental conditions.
IPRE Publishes A New Study that Gives Oregon Communities an "Upper" Hand
In the midst of the state’s housing crisis, the University of Oregon’s Institute for Policy Research & Engagement (IPRE) is urging Oregon communities to turn their attention upwards: the upper floors of historic and downtown buildings.
Sustainable City Year Program heads to Sisters for its latest project
A new year means a new partner for our Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) learn how PPPM students will work with this year’s partner, the city of Sisters.
Professor's fellowship will fund film series on LatinX workers
UO assistant professor John Arroyo is one of this year’s recipients of a $50,000 Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship, which he will use to create a series of short documentary films on the history and housing of migrant Latinx workers in Oregon.
2022 Lawrence Medalist Reflects on a Life of Service
The 2022 Ellis F. Lawrence Medal recipient is Edmund J. Cain, Jr., MA ’70, an international human development expert with fifty years of career experience.
New Faculty and Placements in the College of Design
The college celebrates new faculty and new placements for current faculty.
First UO Environment Initiative Faculty Fellow from PPPM
The Environment Initiative at the University of Oregon has announced a new faculty fellowship program funded by the Office of the Provost and has named John Arroyo, assistant professor of engaging diverse communities in the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the College of Design, as its first faculty fellow for the fall.