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Alexa Salas (URBS ’17) and colleagues publish article about their President’s Engagement Prize project
Alexa interned and volunteered at Puentes De Saludas in South Philadelphia during her junior and senior years. Her senior seminar paper took up the question of how the family engagement of Latina immigrants and after-school programing could make a difference in the educational attainment of Lati
Jana Korn’s (URBS ’18) urban studies thesis featured in Omnia
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Jodi Marcus (URBS ’18) and Reece Sisto (URBS ’18) named Fulbright finalists
The URBS Program congratulates Jodi Marcus (URBS '18) and Reece Sisto (URBS '18) for being awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Grants! Jodi will begin her Fulbright ETA fellowship in India this June, and Reece will begin his in Columbia this August.
Penn IUR Fellows in Urban Leadership
Advancing Cities, Learning from Leaders
The Penn IUR Fellows in Urban Leadership Program, open to Penn undergraduates, engages a small cohort of selected students with high-level local, regional, and national leaders drawn from government, business, and civil society to discuss
Next City publishes op-ed by URBS senior, Jana Korn, based on her senior seminar research on Women and violence on public transportation
Jana spent spring 2017 semester in Santiago Chile and was struck by the vibrancy of life in public places, but she also began to see how the experience of public life is gendered. In the preface of her senior seminar paper, Jana notes the incredible congestion she observed on public transportati
Joanna Visser Adjoian (URBS ’04) pens op ed on youth re-entry
On February 28, 2018, The Inquirer ran an op-ed by YSRP Co-Directors Lauren Fine and Urbie Joanna Visser Adjoian.
High and Low: Realigning Housing Incentives to Promote Equitable Development
Philadelphia’s generous ten-year property tax abatement has been a catalyst for wealth-building, primarily in strong downtown and neighborhood real estate markets for two decades. Can this incentive now also become a vehicle for supporting equitable development across the city?
Timothy Weaver Talks Urban Neighborhoods in the Urban Affairs Review
Dr. Timothy P.R. Weaver, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, has written an article on urban neighborhoods that critiques a new book out by two giants of Urban Studies - Clarence Stone and Bob Stoker.
Sharna Goldseker (URBS ’96) Publishes Book on Philanthropy
Sharna Goldseker (URBS '96) recently published a book with co-author Michael Moody entitled, Generation Impact: How Next Gen Donors Are Revolutionizing Giving.
Kristin Kelly (Urbs ’16) studies in China
Kristen Kelly (Urbs '16) is currently in the Yenching Academy of Peking University, earning a Master's in China Studies. Kristin really likes it, and encourages you to take a look at the program: