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Archived News Items
- Doctoral Student Terence Milstead has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for the 2006-2007 academic year
- Brian Smith, AICP (MSP '69), was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners
- Frank Price's master's thesis
has been published as part of the NOAA National Estuarine Research
Reserve technical series. The thesis, directed by Professor Bob Deyle,
is entitled Quantification, Analysis, and Management of
Intracoastal Waterway Channel Margin Erosion in the Guana Tolomato
Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida. Price is
currently a Biological Scientist working out of the Florida Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Commission's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
field lab in Apalachicola.
- Under the leadership of Professor Charles Connerly and Planner-in-Residence Harrison Higgins, the Friends of North Port St. Joe Strategic Plan
was published in March, 2006. The NPSJ Plan provides a plan of action
for the North Port St. Joe neighborhood in Port St. Joe, FL. The
plan was based on information gathered through meetings with residents
of the North Port St. Joe neighborhood. Work for the plan funded by the
Jessie Ball duPont Fund.
- Professor Charles Connerly’s book “The Most Segregated City in America”: City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980 has been named one of Planetizen’s Top 10 Books of 2006.
In their review they write that the book “provides a fascinating
case study detailing how one city both imposed and reacted to the
[segregationist] policies on the whole, with blacks striving to fight
them in the context of the civil rights movement.”
- Current MSP student John Richardson was awarded the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s McClure Award
in 2005 for best paper written by a master's student. The paper,
"Protecting Wakulla Springs by Reducing Wastewater Nitrate
Leaching” can be downloaded from the following link (PDF file).
- Resources for the Future Press has published Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict: New Institutions for Collaborative Planning,
edited by John T. Scholz and DURP Professor Bruce Stiftel, and
including chapters by: Michael Boswell (MSP '91; PhD '00), Aysin
Dedekorkut (PhD '04), Steve Leitman (MSP '77), Mellini Sloan (PhD class
of '07), and adjunct faculty member Robert M. Jones. The work
details eight protracted Florida water policy conflicts and analyzes
them through challenges of: Representation, Process Design, Scientific
Learning, Public Learning and Problem Responsiveness.
- DURP students Karla Weaver and Jennifer Toth helped prepare the #1 rated project for the first round of the Florida Community Trust grant program on behalf of the Blueprint 2000
program in Tallahassee. The application was for the purchase of 24
acres that will be utilized as part of the Capital Cascades Trail
Project.
- Steven Lawry, DURP MSP 1975, has been named as the new President of Antioch College.
Lawry was most recently a Ford Foundation official with a background in
human rights and environmental issues. He has also worked for the
United Nations and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana.
- Current DURP Master’s Student Stacy Clenney has been awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Paper Award
by the Transportation Planning Division of the American Planning
Association for her paper "Exploring the Use of Transit Oriented
Development and Investment in Rail Systems to Achieve Goals Established
by ISTEA and TEA-21". The paper was written for URP 4710 during Spring
Semester, 2004.
- DURP Professor Bruce Stiftel, Wes Hankins
(MSP 1968), and Wayne Daltry (MSP 1973) inducted as Fellows of the
American Institute of Certified Planners. See the news release here. Listen to an FSU Headlines interview with Professor Stiftel about this award.
- DURP alum Mark C. Bertolami, Florida
State University's director of facilities planning, has received the
prestigious 2004 Ross Oglesby Award, an honor bestowed upon a faculty
or staff member who has, for 10 years or more, exemplified the highest
order of integrity, service and commitment to students and the
university. See the press release here.
- DURP Professor Jeffrey Brown, and
co-author’s Daniel Hess (SUNY-Buffalo) and Donald Shoup (UCLA),
received the Chapter A. Rapkin Award for the Best Article in Volume 23
of the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER). The
winning article, entitled "Fare-Free Public Transit at
Universities: An Evaluation", was published in Volume 23, No. 1 (Fall
2003 issue). JPER is one of the three top journals in the field of planning.
- A article in the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA)
by Professor Jerry Anthony (DURP PhD, 1999) entitled “The Effects
of Florida’s Growth Management Act on Affordable Housing”
(Summer, 2003) was named one of the outstanding articles of the last
twenty years by the JAPA staff. See the list of APA staff picks here.
- Fall Studio Home Page
Unveiled. This studio is engaged in a project that focuses upon
improving the public transit system in Tallahassee. The studio is
entitled “Assessment of Alternative Futures for Transit in
Tallahassee”.
- In related news, Department to Aid in Tallahassee’s Transit Renaissance. See the FSUView article here.
- Department receives a $400,000 HUD Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) grant. See the news release here. Listen to an FSU Headlines report about the award.
- DURP Professor Jeffrey Brown is awarded the 2003 Wootan Award, presented by the Council of University Transportation Centers, for his outstanding dissertation.
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