Mitch Gillam (B.S. URS ’17) has had a busy final year at AAP, completing coursework for his urban and regional studies (URS) degree while the Cornell men’s hockey season continued through March after a number of postseason victories. Gillam, originally from Peterborough, Ontario, via British Columbia, was certain about two things when he arrived in Ithaca four years ago: Cornell hockey and city and regional planning (CRP).
Gillam was in high school, playing with the Junior A British Columbia Hockey league when his experience traveling from place to place with the team crystallized into an idea to pursue a degree in urban planning. “I remember fully acknowledging my interest in planning as we bused through several small communities nestled at the base of the Rockies. I had just moved to the region from my home in Ontario, and this change was stark enough to make me genuinely curious about how my own, as well as other cities, are formed and designed in response to their natural environments,”…