CUPPA Student Achievements and Awards

The following CUPPA students have received national and international recognition over the past year. Congratulations.

 

Urban Planning and Policy

Bob Fuller, MUPP '11, Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Award

Sara Amaral, MUPP '11, the Urban Planning and Policy Student Award

Elizabeth Scott, MUPP '12, Mayor's Office Fellowship City of Chicago

Catalina Ortiz, MUPP '12, Comparative Urban Scholars Summer School RC21-UJURR-FURS, University of Amsterdam

Joe Van Dyk, MUPP '12, Rob Mier Scholarship Award

Bryce Bushman, MUPP '07, Fulbright Scholar, PhD studies in Scotland, summer 2009

Ryan Ruhle, MUPP '10, UPP Best Master's Project

April Jackson, MUPP '12, DFI Fellowship

Kuliva Wilburn, MUPP '12, Martin Luther King Scholarship

Sara Benson, MUPP '11, 2011 Environment, Natural Resource and Energy Subdivision
Student Fellowship, APA

David McQuown, MUPP '12, Philip D. Peters Regional Planning Fellowship CMAP

William Vassilakis, MUPP '12, Eisenhower Graduate Research Fellowship, US DOT

Caitlin Cottrill, PhD '11, Graduate Student Award 10th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium and Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy Travel Award, EU Future and Emerging Technologies Open Scheme

Cristina Silva, MUPP '12, Thelma Jackson Award

Zoe Hamstead, MUPP, Santa Fe Institute Summer School

 

Public Administration


Annie Ginzkey, MPA ’11, Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Award

Mark Ludeking, MPA ’11, Presidential Management Fellows program finalist for 2011

George Martin, MPA '11, American Society of Public Administrators 2011 ASPA Best Student by the UIC Department of Public Administration

Michael Mencarini, MPA ’11, Presidential Management Fellows program finalist for 2011

Eden Sabala, MPA ’11, Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Award for the second year in a row

Meridel Trimble, MPA ’12, City of Chicago's Mayor's Office Fellowship Program

 

Urban and Public Affairs

The following UPA student graduates with honors:

Summa Cum Laude:

Stephani Meyers
Carly Siuta

Magna Cum Laude:

Johana Muriel- Chandler

Cum Laude:

Salvatore Dellaria
Neal Drumm
Andrew Meindl
Peter Pekala
Elizabeth Ummuna
Shifa Virani
Michael Wawzenek

Luis Andrade, UPA ’12, summer internship with the Bureau of Political Military Affairs at the Department of State in Washington D.C.

Ashley Buchanan, UPA '11, City of Chicago's One Good Deed Chicago Initiative

Robin Chan, UPA '12, Drumright Scholarship Fall 2010 and was an intern with the League of Women Voters- Illinois

Neal Drumm, UPA ’11, received Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Award

Stephanie Hseih, UPA '13, Chancellor’s Student Volunteer Award and Participant in CTA Internship studying handicap accessibility at el stations

Brian Martin, UPA ‘11, Chancellor's Award for Community Service, Secondino Scholarship, Tanner Scholarship, and Association Award (scholarship)

April Mueller, UPA ’12, UIC Honors College Transfer Merit Tuition Award, the Women in Transportation Sharon D. Banks Undergraduate Scholarship, and the UIC Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Award

Johana Muriel-Chandler, UPA ’11, Urban and Public Policy Fellowship Spring 2011, Honors College Tuition Award 2009- 2010 and Spring 2011, and the UIC Chancellor's Student Volunteer Service Award

Justin Pence, UPA ’12, Internship with the Chicago Transit Authority handicap accessibility at el stations and will present to the head of the CTA and the Office of Disability and Internship in science and engineering with the U.S. Department of Energy

Carly Siuta, UPA ’11, Intern at CMAP's Future Leaders in Planning (FLIP) program and Chancellor’s Student Service and Leadership Award

Kevin Spicer, UPA ’11, Internship with the Chicago Transit Authority handicap accessibility at el stations and will present to the head of the CTA and the Office of Disability

Lauren Walton, UPA ‘12, Internship with The Fund for American Studies program that focuses on Comparative Political & Economic Systems with George Washington University