Associate Professor Sabina Deitrick, an established member of the SPIA community and co-director of the Urban and Regional Analysis program at Pitt's University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR), receives the Faculty Award.
Spotlights
This is the highest honor that the Urban Affairs Association grants to individuals who have been inducted into the Distinguished Service Honor Roll and continued to fulfill meaningful service roles within UAA after their induction.
"Christopher Briem as been studying Pittsburgh's trends and demograhpics for 30 years - and he's not afraid to tell it like it is." Gateway Profile, Pittsburgh Magazine September 2025.
The University Center for Social & Urban Research (UCSUR) was established in 1972 with the mandate to "bring together, in an organized and integrated fashion, the many research activities and some of the service activities of the University of Pittsburgh which focus on the urban phenomenon." Brian Vargus and Clyde McDaniel served as the founding codirectors. Read More
State of Aging, Disability, & Family Caregiving in Westmorland County - Dec 2023 - By Scott Beach, PhD (UCSUR); Christopher Briem, MPA (UCSUR); Janet Schlarb, MS (UCSUR); Everette James, JD, MBA (HPI); & Meredith Hughes, JD, MBA (HPI) - Funded by the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
Pittsburgh´s Affordable Housing Crisis: Is Privatization the Solution? - Feb 2022 By Daniel McClymonds, Jackie Smith, PhD, & Connor Chapman (University of Pittsburgh Department of Sociology) with Randall Taylor (Penn Plaza Support & Action Network). Read Report
Allegheny County Age-Friendly Community Index, December 2023 - "A database of spatial age-friendly community indicator variables for every Census Tract in Allegheny County" - Ellen Kinnee/Scott Beach