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CURA Welcomes New Advisory Board Members
CURA is thrilled to welcome two new members to our advisory board: Kimberly Sharp and Jessica Kuenzli. Kimberly is the Senior Director of Development at the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA)…

CURA Associate Director Highlighted in OSU News
CURA's Associate Director, Ningchuan Xiao, was recently highlighted for his work heading the Department of Geography's new graduate degree, a master's in geographic information sciences and…

Charles Marohn Answers Questions from CURA's Audience
If you attended our webinar with Charles Marohn in November, you know we received over 70 questions from the audience; in the hour and a half session, there simply wasn't enough time to get to all…

Gia Barboza-Salerno's Research Featured by National Criminal Justice Association
CURA Faculty Affiliate, Gia Barboza-Salerno, recently had her work featured by the National Criminal Justice Association. Along with co-authors Sharefa Duhaney and Hexin Yang, Barboza-Salerno…

CURA Featured at Ohio History Connection Event
At a public event at the Union Grove Baptist Church on the Near East Side neighborhood of Columbus, CURA teamed up with the Sharpe Field Library to demonstrate virtual reality experiences of the…

Research: Inclusive accessibility: Analyzing socio-economic disparities in perceived accessibility
In a new paper in the journal, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, former CURA GRA Amrita Kar, CURA Associate Director Ningchuan Xiao, CURA Director Harvey Miller, and CURA Faculty Affiliate…

Event Recap: LinkUS Presentation
On October 1st, CURA and the Ohio State City and Regional Planning Student Association hosted several speakers to talk about the LinkUS initiative. Kim Sharp of COTA, Charles Newman of the City of…

In the News: Bringing Environmental Justice to Disadvantaged Communities
This week, an article was published in the Ohio State News about a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine consensus study report co-chaired by CURA Director, Harvey Miller. The…

Research: Accessibility derivative: Measuring the accessibility contribution of public transit routes
In a new paper in the journal Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, former CURA GRA Luyu Liu and CURA Director Harvey Miller measure the contribution of individual…