Mahmood Al-Wahaibi, MUP '18, will represent his country, Oman, at the Middle East Rail 2019 meet in Dubai in early 2019. The meet is the largest rail exhibition across the Middle East and North Africa, bringing together rail operators, government entities and contractors. Read more.

The Department of Urban Planning has many course offerings available for spring 2019. Read more.

Congratulations to Ashankh Jaishankar and Ammar Elmajdoub, both second year MUP students, on being awarded a fellowship through the UIUC Graduate College's Travel Grant competition. The grant provides reimbursement to Illinois students for travel-related costs incurred for the completition of capstone requirements. The Graduate Collge holds its Travel Grant competition every fall and spring. Ammar and Ashankh were two of 30 nominations and 19 recipients. 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.

The College of Fine and Applied Arts has created a new brochure for DURP. Read more.