Penn IUR Sponsors 16th Annual UURC

This spring, Penn IUR is sponsoring the 16th annual Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium (UURC), an advanced seminar that pairs undergraduates with faculty or advanced PhD candidates to conduct urban-focused research. The program gives students an opportunity to gain urban research experience by connecting them to mentors with expertise in their fields of interest. Students receive credits through the Department of City and Regional Planning in the Weitzman School of Design or through the Urban Studies Program in the School of Arts and Sciences. The UURC course sponsors up to 10 research projects each spring, with grant funds of up to $2,000 available to support new and/or existing research efforts.

Students from each of the University’s undergraduate schools (Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Applied Science, Nursing, and Wharton) and faculty and doctoral students from across the University’s 12 schools are eligible to participate.

Past research projects have ranged from ethnographic studies of Philadelphia nightlife, to identifying barriers to walking in disadvantaged neighborhoods, to analyzing urban mass transit. UURC student-faculty collaborations have yielded publications in refereed journals, leveraged additional research funding, and prepared undergraduates to pursue original research (both as an extension of the UURC project and in other areas of study). To learn more about the breadth of research that is eligible, read about the projects undertaken by the Spring 2019 cohort: https://penniur.upenn.edu/press-room/announcements/2019-uurc-research-f….

To accommodate additional applications, Penn IUR has extended the UURC application deadline to December 31. For instructions on applying, please visit: https://penniur.upenn.edu/instruction/uurc.