Overview

We’ve rounded up Penn IUR’s highlights for 2025 in this photo montage celebrating 20 years of urban research.

Highlights for 2025

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L-R: Nussdorf Student Award winners Skyla Rimple (C’26) and Nikita Bharati (C’25); Penn IUR Co-Director Susan Wachter; Nussdorf Urban Leadership Awardee Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone; Penn President Larry Jameson, Nussdorf Urban Leadership Awardee Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia; Penn IUR Co-Director Eugénie Birch; and Nussdorf Urban Leadership Awardee Patrick Harker, former President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and now Wharton professor.