News
Brian Cohen (URBS 07, GSE ’09) blog on Urban Education
Brian Cohen (URBS 07, GSE -09) is a math teacher at the High School of the Future in West Philadelphia.
Michael Katz is recipient of the 2010 Best Paper Published in the Journal of Urban Affairs Award
Professor Michael Katz along with co-authors Mathew Creighton, Daniel Amsterdam, and Merlin Chowkwanyun, have been selected to receive the 2010 Best Paper Published in the Journal of Urban Affairs Award for their article, "Immigration and the New Metropolitan Geography."
Kristen Bryant ’11 awarded a Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship
Congratulations to URBS senior, Kirsten Bryant, who is one of 25 Fellows selected for the second cohort of the Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color (WW-RB
Community Service Internship
The Midwest Academy, a 37-year-old national training institute for progressive direct action organizing, will train community organizing interns in a ten week Summer 2011 program, running from Tuesday, June 6 - Friday, August 12.
Francis Weber, class of 2011, published in Columbia Undergraduate Law Review
URBS junior, Frank Weber, submitted an article for publication in the Spring 2010 Columbia Undergraduate Law Review.
Joe Portelli, URBS 2010, published in UPenn City Planning academic journal
Joe Portelli's article, "Financing Suburban Retrofits," was published in the academic jounal Panorama 2010
Daniel Schwartz, URBS ’10, published in Dissent Magazine
Daniel Schwartz, class of 2010, was recently published in Dissent Magazine.
Daniel Schwartz, URBS 2010, published in Dissent Magazine
Daniel Schwartz's article, "Searching for a New Sanctuary Movement," was recently published in Dissent Magazine.
William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fellowship for Minority Students
The Aspen Institute Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation in Washington, D.C., offers the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fellowship three times annually.
Amy Walters, 1996
Amy Walters, class of '96, consults full-time on World Bank projects providing financing, implementation support, and advisory services for education and early childhood development to governments in the Latin America and Caribbean region.