Tag: Urban and Regional Studies
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Supervisor Steckenback also mentions Prof. Cruz’s class
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We mentioned last week that the new STEM Innovation Center was at the center of Brown County Executive Troy Streckenbach’s State of the County address. Receiving an “honorable mention” in the speech was UW-Green Bay Prof. Marcelo Cruz’s course, Special Topics: Course in Urban and Regional Studies (Waterfront project — Bay Beach, Marina and Renard…
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UW-Green Bay students propose ideas for new ‘Green Bay Waterfront District’
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Brown County Leaders are discussing what to do with waterfront property from Bay Beach to the Marina, including the 55-acre Renard Island. Students in Prof. Marcelo Cruz’s course, Special Topics: Course in Urban and Regional Studies (Waterfront projcect — Bay Beach, Marina and Renard Island Visioning and Connectivity Study) have worked semester-long on the project…
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Galloping in the Galapagos, Jan 2016
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Associate Professor (Urban and Regional Studies) Marcelo Cruz shared these photos of the 16 students he led on a January 2016 winter interim trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. They studied the geographic diversity of the northern Ecuadorean Andes and the impacts of urbanization on the Galapagos. Cruz said the students were from many…
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Faculty note: Shariff publication
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Ismail Shariff, Professor Emeritus of Urban and Regional Studies, has published a book titled “Macroeconomics: Basic Concepts and Principles for the High School Curriculum.” Printed by CAT Publishing Inc., a subsidiary of W.W.Norton, the book can be found by its ISBN number, 978-1-50226-673-8215.
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Stockpiling ideas: Planning students aid Stockbridge
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Students in the Urban and Regional Planning theory course taught by Prof. Marcelo Cruz traveled to the Calumet County village of Stockbridge Wednesday night to share with the Village Board ideas for the community’s future development. Posing with village officials were four UW-Green Bay students from the Urban and Regional Studies program, from left: Michael…
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Faculty note: Cruz is presenter at UW-Milwaukee program
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Marcelo Cruz, associate professor of Urban and Regional Studies, is among the roundtable leaders today (Friday, Dec. 4) at the “New Approaches to Latin American Studies” conference hosted by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UW-Milwaukee. His topic is “Challenges for Regional Planning in the 21st Century: the Case of Cantón Tena…
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Faculty note: Hutchison presentation on ‘tent graves’
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Prof. Ray Hutchison (Sociology) will be presenting an overview of his recent (and continuing) research on tent graves of the Tennessee highlands at the Social Science Research Forum this Friday (Oct. 23) from 2:20 to 3:30 p.m. in Bemis Hall Room 213 at St. Norbert College, De Pere. Hutchison’s talk, titled “East Tennessee Ephemerides: The…
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Hutchison invited to help organize 2016 European Sociological conference
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Prof. Ray Hutchison of Sociology has been tagged to serve on the Scientific Committee for the next mid-term conference of the RN-37 research network of the European Sociological Association. “Moving cities: Contested views on urban life” will be held June 29-July 1, 2016 at the Jagiellonian University, in Krakow. (That’s the old city of Krakow,…
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Faculty note: Hutchison presentations
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Sociology Prof. Ray Hutchison (Urban and Regional Studies) recently returned from Chicago, where he presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. His two papers: “The Right to Urban Theory: Henri Lefebvre and the Misappropriation of Public Space” (co-authored/co-presented with Joao Pedro Nunes from the University of Lisbon-Nova) and “Exploring the World’s Great…