EPIC-N is delighted to announce the 2025 EPIC-N conference award winners! We released a call for nominations for three awards: Partnership of the Year, Faculty of the Year, and Student of the Year. We received a number of nominations, all of which were excellent. The remarkable nominations received by EPIC-N made the decisions by our […]
The Universidad Veracruzana and the City Council of Córdoba, Veracruz, with support from the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Mexico and the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities Network (EPIC-N), coordinated the project “Towards a circular Córdoba”. This project seeks to address, from undergraduate and postgraduate educational interventions, the development of project proposals that contribute […]
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By: Ada Inman On Friday, March 24th, the University of Guadalajara held a formal inauguration ceremony to commence their membership with the EPIC-Network. The mission of the University of Guadalajara’s EPIC Model program is to carry out collaborative work with local governments in the state of Jalisco to provide support and improve quality of life […]
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By: Ada Inman UW-Madison’s EPIC Model Program, UniverCity Year, has added more than 100 new projects to the EPIC-N Project Library. These new projects span 11 different university/community partnerships dating back to 2016 and cover a diverse array of city challenges including childcare, alternative energy solutions, housing, and more. Look through UniverCity Year’s Project Library […]
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By: Ada Inman Arizona State University’s EPIC Model Program, Project Cities, pairs sustainability faculty and students with a city to co-create strategies for better environmental, economic and social balance in the places we live. Students from multiple disciplines research difficult problems chosen by the city and propose innovative sustainability solutions that enable the city to […]
By: Ada Inman The Sustainable Communities Partnership (SCP) program at the University of St. Thomas entered into an extended partnership with Metro Transit spanning from 2017 to 2024. During this partnership, students gained valuable hands-on experience as researchers, designers, writers, marketers, and computer scientists. In return, Metro Transit gained insight and solutions to on-going and […]
Dr. Jerry Anthony is an architect and urban planner. He is an accomplished scholar. His article, “The effect of Florida’s Growth Management Act on Housing Affordability,” was named one of most outstanding articles published in the Journal of the American Planning Association in 20 years. He was named a HUD Urban Scholar in 2001. Dr. Anthony is an outstanding teacher. He has received the “Excellence in Planning Education” award from the Iowa chapter of the American Planning Association—one of only two educators in Iowa to be ever given this award. In 2003, Dr. Anthony co-founded a non-profit entity, Housing Trust Fund of Johnson County, to provide a new source of funding for affordable housing development in Johnson County, Iowa. In 2019, Dr. Anthony was awarded the University of Iowa’s prestigious Michael J. Brody award for Excellence in Service. In 2020, Dr. Anthony was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. […]
By: Ada Inman EPIC-Network Program Spotlight: The GovLove podcast, hosted by ELGL, featured representatives from Texas A&M and UW-Madison in separate podcast episodes this past month. In the GovLove episode highlighting UW-Madison, two guests joined the podcast to talk about the UniverCity Year partnership between the Village of Waunakee, WI, the Ho-Chunk Nation, and students […]
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Jaimie Hicks Masterson, AICP is Director of Texas Target Communities at Texas A&M University, a high-impact service-learning program that works alongside underserved communities to plan for resilience. Based on this work, in 2019, the Liberty County Strategic Plan received the national Silver Planning Achievement Award from the American Planning Association. She is author of “Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters,” which focuses on hazard mitigation strategies and tools for government officials, planners, and emergency managers that can be incorporated pre-disaster. She is the engagement coordinator Institute for Sustainable Communities and the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard project funded by the Department of Homeland Security and a part of the Center for Coastal Resilience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. […]
By: Marshall Curry and Ada Inman EPIC-Network Program Spotlight: Two years ago, leaders at Indiana State University met with EPIC-N staff and board member Jane Rogan of the University of Indiana, Bloomington after learning about EPIC-N Programs in a workshop. In these meetings, Indiana State University leaders devised a plan to go from piloting the […]