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SoME RAP Wins 2012 Community Service Award

The students, faculty, and staff from City and Regional Planning who participated in creating the South Memphis Revitalization Action Plan (SoMe RAP) will be honored with the Tennessee Medical Association’s 2012 Community Service Award.

The Memphis Medical Society nominated the project to the Association which recognized the SoMeRAP plan and implementation efforts for its “contributions to the improvement and advancement of health.”

Professors Katherine A. Pennington and Kenneth M. Reardon will accept the award on behalf of our project at TMA’s 2012 Awards Ceremony to be held at the Nashville International Airport Marriott on Saturday, April 14^th.

NLSA Wins 2012 Program Excellence Award at National Conference

Congratulations to the University of Memphis Nonprofit Student Leaders Association, run by the Division of Public and Nonprofit Administration, for winning the 2012 Sprint Program Excellence Award at the Alliance Management/Leadership Institute (AMI) 2012!

Check out the video they submitted here:

Anne Zobell, 2011 MPA Grad and Former HCD Fellow, hired by Sen. Harry Reid's D.C. Office

In August, Anne Zobell (MPA '11) began work as a Staff Assistant for Grants and Special Projects in Senator Harry Reid’s office in Washington, D.C. 

"The most interesting thing I’ve done was completely out of my job description," says Zobell.  "I was asked to play a violin solo at 'Welcome to Washington,' Senator Reid’s weekly constituent meeting held in the Lyndon B. Johnson room of the U.S. Capitol."

Under the direction of a Grants Specialist, Zobell supports constituents as they navigate the grant seeking process by creating outreach materials informing them of different funding opportunities and drafting letters of support to be included in their grant applications. She is also working on a research project examining the amount of funding Nevada has received under the Appropriations Bills and determining where Nevada is lacking in funds. 

Zobell graduated with her Masters in Public Administration from the University of Memphis in May 2011 and had received a Housing and Community Development (HCD) Fellowship while at the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy.