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Professor Rick Willson was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners at the APA conference in Las Vegas, April 27, 2008. He joined past and current URP professors who are FAICP, including David Bess, Sherman Griselle, Margarita McCoy, Steve Preston, and Frank Wein.
Professors, students and alums converged at the Cal Poly Pomona table at the Combined University Reception on Wednesday, April 30th 2008. With over 40 URP students in attendance, the event provided opportunity to alums to network and share experiences with students.
APSA, the planning student organization at Cal Poly Pomona, has been chosen to receive the APA Student Representatives Council Outstanding Planning Student Organization Award for Best Practices. The award is for the Great Latino Street, Great Latino Neighborhoods program it developed in conjunction with the Latino Division of APA. The program created a dialogue on Latino issues with students, government officials, and community members. The event was part of APA's National Community Planning Month. Hector Solis and Manny Munoz accepted the award at the APA/AICP Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, April 30, 2008.
Over 200 planners and design professionals attended the Dale Prize Colloquium on February 6, 2008. Alumnus Steve Preston moderated a lively discussion between Dale Prize Practitioner Paul Farmer, FAICP and Dale Prize Scholar Marvin Malecha, FAIA concerning collaborations between planning and the design professions. Click here for more information and a streaming video of the colloquium.
Hector Solis has been selected as the James H. Jones President's Council Scholar for the College of Environmental Design. This prestigious scholarship is awarded to an outstanding student in the College of Environmental Design. The scholarship includes a $2,500 award. Congratulations Hector!
The California State University (CSU) recently announced that an undergraduate student from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning is 2007 recipient of the William Randolph Hearst/CSU Trustees Award for Outstanding Achievement. The CSU selected Jesus Herrera-Cortes as the winner for Cal Poly Pomona. Winners were selected on the basis of their talent, determination, and drive to help build and sustain California's future. Congratulations Jesus!
The California Planning Foundation announced that three URP students won scholarhips in the 2007-2008 award cycle. They will be honored at the CCAPA conference in San Jose in October. The winners include undergraduate students Hector Solis, Outstanding Student Runner Up ($2000), Steven Kim, Inland Section Award ($1,000), and Jeremiah Petsas, Los Angeles Section Award ($1000). Congratulations!
On Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 the College of Environmental Design, the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and the URP Alumni Association hosted a reception for URP alumni in conjunction with the Cal Chapter American Planning Association conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. Over 70 alumni attended and met the URP alumni association leadership and department faculty.
On June 12, 2007, Cal Poly Pomona's undergraduate capstone studio class won a Special Award of Merit, Academic Award from the Los Angeles Section of the American Planning Association for a Pedestrian Mobility Study conducted for the City of Pasadena. The class was taught by Instructor Rick Zimmer.
The 2007 Dale Prize winners visited the campus April 4-6, 2007 to discuss Ecological Urban Design: Making Rules/Breaking Rules. The theme advanced an ecological approach to urban design, focusing on innovations, experiments, and best practices.The 2007 Dale Prize winners were Mr. Jonathan Barnett FAICP, FAIA. Jonathan Barnett is a Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning and Director of the Urban Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania (Scholar Prize) and Ms. Sarah James. Sarah James is a Cambridge, Massachusetts city and town planning consultant (Practitioner Prize).
The College of Environmental Design hosted a reception for URP alumni in conjunction with the Cal Chapter American Planning Association conference at the Hyatt Regency Orange County in Garden Grove in October 2006. Over 80 alumni attended and met the URP alumni association leadership, Dean Karen Hanna, and department faculty.
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning hosted a Lecture by Dr. Reid Ewing on Traffic Calming. Dr. Ewing is an international expert on land use and transportation planning.
The department kicked off the 2006 academic year with two new faculty members – Dr. Juliana Delgado, who holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and Ms. Ileana Apostal, who is completing her doctorate at USC. They bring talents in design, physical planning, design theory, and planning practice.
2006 Dale Colloquium was held on the Cal Poly Pomona campus. Ms. Carol Whiteside (practitioner) and Dr. John Randolph (scholar) addressed the Dale Prize theme "Crossing Boundaries: Fostering a Regional Approach to Environmental Planning." The URP Alumni Association grants its first Dale Prize scholarships for students.
On October 2, 2005, the Department of Urban and Regional Alumni Chapter announced its recertification and holds a kickoff meeting and barbecue at the Lyle Center for Regenerative Design.
Dr. Richard Willson and the students of URP 431/432 win the 2005 California Chapter APA Academic Award for the Transit Development Along the Gold Line Corridor project.
In July 2005, the Mineta Transportation Institute released “The Pasadena Gold Line: Development Strategies, Local Decisions, and Travel Characteristics along a New Rail Line in the Los Angeles Region”, authored by Dr. Hollie Lund and Dr. Richard Willson. July, 2005.
Dr. Dimitris Poulakidas (URP) and Prof. Irma Ramirez (ARCH) led the first ENV interdisciplinary study abroad program in China, in collaboration with the North China University of Technology. June, 2005
