The URSYS (Urban-Rural Systems) Research Network’s third event in a series of regional workshops was held in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 5th-7th, 2024. This workshop brought together local and regional stakeholders from academia, government, non-governmental organizations, and industry to explore the Mississippi River Basin (MRB) as a large interconnected urban […]
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The second URSYS workshop was held at the Center for River Studies at the LSU Water Campus on November 3-5, 2023. The workshop brought 20 researchers and community stakeholders from Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee, together with researchers and community stakeholders from Louisiana, to continue discussing common research themes along the urban-rural […]
Iowa State University Architecture Professor Kimberly Zarecor is quoted extensively in an Aug. 20 Cedar Rapids Gazette article by reporter Tom Barton titled “Rural Iowa continues to lose population. How some small towns are working to ‘shrink smart.’“ The article was a preview of the Gazette’s Iowa Ideas 2023 Virtual […]
The first regional URSYS workshop took place in Minneapolis from April 21 to 23 and engaged 37 researchers and community stakeholders. The workshop’s goal was to begin creating cross-disciplinary research collaborations among stakeholders in the MRB with the potential to identify themes and sites for future interdisciplinary grant proposals and […]