Director
James F. Murley, Esq., became the director of CUES in February 1999. He is a 1974 graduate of the George Washington University Law School, where he specialized in environmental and land-use law. He is a former Secretary of the Florida Department of Community Affairs and a former member of the Miami River Commission and the Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Congress for New Urbanism, the Seaside Institute, the Dade County Land Trust and is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Biography
jmurley@fau.edu
Associate/Assistant Directors:
Lenore Alpert, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Research, directs the Ocean and Coastal Program for CUES. Her research includes projects on the Economics of Beaches, Marine Strategic Plan for Monroe County, Statewide Boating Inventory, the Marine Association of South Florida's Master Plan Implementation, redistricting for city commissions, as well as coordinating the Florida Ocean Alliance. She directed the Regional Indicators Project for CUES over the past three years, and now coordinates ResearchSouthFlorida. Dr. Alpert has a doctorate in political science/public policy from Northwestern University and twenty years of research and university teaching experience, both in the public and private sector. She currently teaches as an adjunct professor in FAU's Department of Political Science.
lalpert@fau.edu
Marie L. York, FAICP, is the Associate Director for Northern Campuses of the Center for Urban & Environmental Solutions at Florida Atlantic University. As a lead researcher she provides solutions for cities and counties facing urban planning and sustainability challenges. She co-founded and directs the award-winning Florida Public Officials Design Institute at Abacoa, which is dedicated to improving communities by offering elected officials training in smart growth and design. Ms. York is a Knight Fellow with the University of Miami’s School of Architecture. She is the past Chair of the New Urbanism Division of the American Planning Association, a former President of the Florida Chapter of the American Planning Association and Vice Chair for Elected Officials with the Urban Land Institute’s Southeast Florida/Caribbean District Council. An alumna of Leadership Florida, she also serves on its Advisory Council. In 2008 Ms. York was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners, the planning profession’s highest award. Also in 2008, she was elected to the position of national board director of the American Planning Association, representing the southeast United States, Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South Americas.
myork@fau.edu
Research Staff:
Angela M. Grooms, Coordinator- Research Information,
earned a bachelor's degree in public affairs from FAU in 1991,
and has worked at CUES since 1987. Her primary
responsibilities are maintaining CUES's resource
library, including the acquisition of holdings, and assists with
research projects.
agrooms@fau.edu
Mary Beth Hartman began working in the Abacoa Project offices on the FAU MacArthur Campus in Jupiter in May 2001. Since its inception in 2002, Mary Beth has been the project coordinator for the Florida Public Officials Design Institute, housed at the CUES North location. She has been instrumental in the program's logistical development, including coordinating keynote lectures, receptions and site visits, editing and producing Institute briefing books and final reports along with working closely with the participating public officials and their staffs. Mary Beth is assisting in the development of a Design Institute operations manual and working to promote program expansion. Her work with the Center involves research, program development and outreach activities along with initiatives involving community building, diversity, environmental education, smart growth and university and community partnerships. She earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Education from Florida Atlantic University.
mhartman@fau.edu
Support Staff:
June G. Crippen, Executive Secretary to Director, brings 37 years of secretarial experience from various industries. Most of those years, however, were as a legal secretary in New York and California.
crippenj@fau.edu
Linda A. Foster, Office Assistant, prepares travel arrangements and documentation, handles purchasing matters, and maintains expenditure records. She has been with CUES since 1986.
lfoster@fau.edu