Alumni Announcements

There are many ways to stay in touch with URBS:

  • Join the University of Pennsylvania Urban Studies Alumni group on LinkedIn.  This group is limited only to urban studies current students and alums for career networking purposes.  Just search for the page on LinkedIn and request to join.

Alumni Achievements

Margaret Shea ’92 Dissertation Hearing

Margaret Shea '92 has just defended her PhD Dissertation at the University of Massachusetts. Her research title is Collective Remembrance and Irish Identity in Catholic Derry, Northern Ireland 1897-2007"

T. William Lester

An article jointly authored by URBS alumnus T. William Lester, '99, has been published in the current issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs. Entitled, Why Regions? Why Now?

Chris Ko

2006 URBS graduate Chris Ko was recently selected to participate in Next American Vanguard, a 2-day conference of "the country's brightest young urban leaders," put on by Next American City, an urban-affairs magazine based out of Philadelphia, and Living Cities, their sponsor org