Each year, Penn IUR hosts the Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium (UURC), an innovative program that pairs faculty conducting urban-focused scholarship with exceptional undergraduates interested in developing research skills. Each UURC student-faculty team executes an original research project; collaborations have yielded publications in refereed journals, leveraged other research funding, and prepared undergraduates to pursue further original research.
This year, our student-faculty projects are:
Faculty | Student | Project |
Andrew Mondschein, PennDesign | Juan Visser, Urban Studies
| Transit Oriented Development in the Washington Metro Area
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Eugenie Birch, PennDesign | Alexandra Bendheim, Urban Studies | Smart City Initiatives |
Bridgette Brawner, Nursing | Kelsey Liburd, Nursing | A Spatially-Based Approach To Understanding HIV/AIDS in Urban Environments |
Domenic Vitiello, Penn Design | Jenny Chen, Economics | Urban Agriculture and Community Gardening in Chicago |
Eric Schneider, Arts and Sciences | Taryn Williams, Urban Studies | Homicide in Philadelphia in 2012 |
Shahana Chattaraj, Wharton | Ellie Sun, Religious Studies | Informal Housing and Real Estate Markets in Mumbai |
Carolyn Cannuscio, School of Medicine
| Alyssa Bonnell, Public Health and Biology | Evaluation of the ArtWell Education Program. |
Click here for more information on the UURC
Arden Jordan
Program Coordinator
215-573-8386
ardenj@upenn.edu