Penn IUR Announces 2019 Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium Participants

The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) is pleased to announce the participants in the Spring 2019 Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium (UURC). The UURC is an innovative research program that pairs faculty conducting urban-focused scholarship with undergraduates that have an interest in developing research skills in a semester-long, credit-bearing seminar. Students from each of the University’s undergraduate schools (Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Applied Science, Nursing and Wharton) are eligible to participate.

The Spring 2019 UURC participants, as well as their project titles and faculty advisors are listed below.

• A Comparative Ethnographic Study on Employment Practices at Local Urban Universities  | Student: Samantha Stein (SAS); Mentor: Aaron Levy (SAS)
• Community Engagement in City-Based Human Service Funding Decisions | Student: Kavya Singh (SAS); Mentor: Megan Farwell (SP2 PhD Candidate)
• The Construction of Histories of James Town: Oral, Written & Mapped | Student: Anunya Bahanda (SAS); Mentor: Kimberly Noronha (Design PhD Candidate)
• Local Accountability Effects in Philadelphia | Student: Aaron Soo Ping Chow (SAS); Mentor:  Haisheng Yang (GSE PhD Candidate)
• Restorying the Scale of Death: Thirteen Reasons Why We Need “Small Stories” in Urban Education | Student: Pinar Goktas (Nursing/SAS); Mentors: Emily Plummer & Josh Coleman (GSE PhD Candidates)
• Smart Cities | Students: Patrick Teese (SAS), Rachel Chu (SAS), Sophia Ye (Wharton); Mentors: Eugenie Birch, Allison Lassiter (Design)
• The Role of Teachers in Creating Positive School Climate In The Context of Low-Income and Conflict-Affected Countries | Student: Adamseged Abebe (SAS/SP2); Mentor: Christiana Kallon (GSE PhD Candidate)