Jesse Thomas, a second year MUP student, has been awarded the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship. The program awards fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines. It advances the transportation workforce by helping to attract the nation's brightest minds to the field of transportation, encouraging future transportation professionals to seek advnaced degrees, and helping to retain top talent in the U.S. transportation industry. Read more about Fellowship.

DURP is once again hosting its Get A Job! series for undergraduate and graduate Urban Planning students to help them prepare to find an internship or a job. Each Thursday of February at 5:00 pm in room 223 of Temple Buell Hall will be a different topic on the subject. Read more.

The Consortium for Scenario Planning, a Lincoln Institute initiative, announced the winners of its RFP for Impactful Projects: Eastgate Regional Council of Governments, GreaterPlaces, the National Center for Smart Growth, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Read more.

The academic programs within the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, including BAUSP, MUP and MSSUM, have been recently classified as an approved field of study within the U.S. government's official STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields list. UIUC urban planning students on F1 visa who finish the program may participate in 12 months of OPT, and may apply for an additional 24 month extension to their OPT period. More information about the STEM OPT extension can be found through the Office of International Student & Scholar Services.

We have many exciting activities taking place in DURP this semester. Make sure you don't miss out on any of them by checking our departmental calendar.