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Empowering community engagement through theory and practice
Congratulations to Professor Marisa Denker (URBS '14) on a great first year running the Participatory Cities course, URBS 314.
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Debbie Rabinovich, inaugural Samvid Scholar
Debbie Rabinovich (URBS '19) is one of two Penn students chosen for the inaugural class of 20 Samvid Scholars.
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Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology
Congratulations to Tara Dawson McGuinness (URBS '00) on the publication of her latest book, a blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve…
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2021 Gordon Fellows
This summer's cohort of Urban Studies Gordon Fellows continued in the shared goal of taking urban theory into the real world, participating in summer internships and organizing community events for…
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Political Empathy: Perspectives from Psychology and Urban Studies
Check out the Paideia program's recent episode of their PARK podcast, featuring Marisa Denker’s Urban Studies course, Participatory Cities:
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The danger of America’s forgotten battle with asbestos
Congratulations to Urbie Alisa Ghura on her Brookings Institution blog post: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/08/26/the-danger-of-americas-forgotten-battle-with-asbestos/
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Penn’s first Black newspaper EIC on racism in media
We are so proud of URBS senior Hadriana Lowernkron for her WHYY Opinion Piece!
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Photo Essays in Gender, Sex & Urban Life
In Spring 2021, the students in URBS 277/GSWS 277: Gender, Sex, and Urban Life completed a photo essay assignment.
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The Histories We're Given
See the Omnia write up about Melina Lawrence's (URBS & ARCH '21) excellent senior thesis work comparing two Philly statues, the Frank Rizzo and Octavius Catto memor
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Paul Farber Wins Distinguished Teaching Award
Well done Paul for winning a G. Holmes Perkins Teaching Award, in the category of distinguished undergraduate teaching, 2021.
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Welcome to Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Urban Studies is an interdisciplinary program in the College of Arts & Sciences. It draws on faculty and resources across the university and the city to offer students a multi-faceted approach to the study of urban trends.
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Translanguaging in Classrooms with Multilingual Speakers
Speaker: Shiyu Jiang || PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania, Educational Linguistics at GSE Discussant: Dr. Kate Menken || Professor of Linguistics and TESOL, Queens College Click here to join! This paper…
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Jake Becker
"Power comes from two places - organized people and organized money." -Saul Alinsky
Karen L. Black
EB White said “I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”
Julia Hansen
“What is the city but the people?” – William Shakespeare
Matt Pershe
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." --Jim Elliot