Award recipient(s): Rachel Woldoff (West Virginia Univ.) Award committee assessment: Rachael Woldoff’s White Flight/Black Flight makes an important contribution to the field’s understanding of neighborhood transformation. Her ethnographic approach, with more than 90 expansive personal interviews conducted over three years, gives voice to neighborhood residents—elderly whites, pioneer blacks, and second-wave black arrivals. The result is...Read More

Sun Yat Sen University was the setting for the International Conference on Urban and Regional Development in the 21st Century and Lingnan Forum held in Guangzhou, China, December 17-18, 2011. Among the participants were a number of scholars familiar to UAAers including Jill Gross, Hank Savitch, Michael Timberlake, Christian Lefevre, David K. Hamilton, Catherine Ross, Robin...Read More

The UAA Executive Office learned today (January 18) that former UAA Executive Director, Mary Helen Callahan, has entered hospice care as she continues a long battle with cancer. Notes of support and UAA memories can be sent to her at: Mary Helen Callahan 303 Beverly Road Newark, DE 19711Read More