Associate Professor Laura Wolf-Powers' book University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District received the Philadelphia Athenaeum Art and Architecture 2022 Book Award.
Professor Nicholas Bloom has published another essay on mass transit: https://theconversation.com/low-cost-high-quality-public-transportation-will-serve-the-public-better-than-free-rides-202708
Hunter Distinguished Professor and UPP affiliated faculty member Professor Steffie Woolhandler appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, April 16, 2023. RIP Medical Debt: Abolishing crippling health care debts
Associate Professor Laura Wolf-Powers' book University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District received the Philadelphia Athenaeum Art and Architecture 2022 Book Award. Prof. Wolf-Powers was also quoted in a Bisnow article about community land trusts.
Associate Professor Laura Wolf-Powers published an op-ed piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education on February 14, based on her recently published book University City.
MS UPL alum Yudelka Tapia (2019) was sworn in as a member of the New York State Assembly for district 86 on February 5th.
MUP alum Julia Fiore (2018) was featured in City & State, February 2, 2023. Racial Equity Reports are a new and valuable resource for developing affordable housing
Dr. Mehdi Heris was a co-author of a recently released research paper in The Lancet. The research team used Dr. Heris’ urban heat mitigation model to estimate the cooling impact of urban trees and then translated that cooling effect into public health outcomes. The authors found that over 4% of summer mortality across 94 cities in [...]
Prof. John Chin's NIH-funded research on illicit massage parlors in New York City and Los Angeles was cited in a recent USA Today article on the limitations of human trafficking laws ("Human trafficking laws were supposed to help women. Victims’ stories say otherwise")
MUP alum Jeremiah Cox (2016) was featured in an article about changes to the Goshen, IN transit system. https://www.goshennews.com/news/changes-proposed-for-goshen-s-transit-service/article_0f63cbb0-92cb-11ed-bb3c-cb13b0dbeeab.html