ALESSANDRO RIGOLON portrait
  • Associate Professor, City & Metropolitan Planning
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Professional Service

  • National Science Foundation. Ad Hoc Reviewer. 01/2023 - present
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Role: Research Partner and Proposal Reviewer. Building Momentum for Park and Green Space Equity in Small and Midsize Cities. Prevention Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2020-ongoing). 01/12/2020 - present
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Topic Editor. 01/01/2020 - present
  • Journal of Leisure Research. Role: Associate Editor. Associate Editor. 11/01/2017 - present

Internal Service

  • Design Foundations Taskforce Committee . Member, 08/2023 - 05/2024. College service.
  • Master of City and Metropolitan Planning Program Coordinator. Program Coordinator, 07/01/2023 - present. Department service.
  • Chair of the Search Committee, Assistant Professor in Urban Ecology, Department of City and Metropolitan Planning . Chair, 01/2023 - 05/2023. Department service.
  • Academic Senator. Senator, 08/2021 - 06/2024. University service.
  • Academic Senate. Senator, 08/01/2021 - present. University service.
  • Search Committee Member, Assistant Professor, Department of City & Metropolitan Planning + Natural History Museum of Utah + Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. Search committee member, 01/11/2021 - 04/01/2022. Department service.
  • Master in City and Metropolitan Planning Admission Committee. Committee Member, 12/01/2019 - present. Department service.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of City & Metropolitan Planning Search Committee (2019-2020). Committee Member, 09/01/2019 - 03/01/2020. Department service.
  • College Facilities-Technology Committee. Committee Member, 08/15/2019 - present. College service.

Community Partnership

  • Liberty Wells Community Council. Project for the Plan Making course (CMP 6160). 01/2023 - 05/2023

Honors & Awards

  • Clarivate, Highly Cited Researcher. 2023. Cross-Field. Clarivate, 12/2023
  • Urban Studies, Editors’ Featured Articles, Fall 2021. Awarded article: “Green gentrification or 'just green enough': Do park location, size and function affect whether a place gentrifies or not?”. https://www.urbanstudiesonline.com/editors-featured-articles/. Urban Studies, 10/01/2021
  • Celebrate U Honoree, 2020. Selected as Researcher Honoree for the book titled, “Urban green spaces: Public health and sustainability in the United States.” . The University of Utah, 03/05/2020
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Arnold O. Beckman Award. Campus Research Board proposal titled “Green gentrification and its impacts on the health and well-being of marginalized communities: An environmental justice study.”. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 04/29/2019
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Cover Story, Volume 16, Issue, 3, 2019. Cover article: School green space and its impact on academic performance: A systematic literature review. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/3. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 02/05/2019

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