Professor Jim O’Connell is a Community Planner at the Boston Office of the Northeast Region of the National Park Service, where he specializes in planning for historic sites and heritage areas, in addition to being a faculty member in the City Planning and Urban Affairs program. His expertise lies in urban history, metropolitan Boston planning […]
Tej Karki, Ph.D., is an urban planner originally from Nepal whose expertise ranges from politics of urban planning implementation, climate change and its impact on cities as well as sustainable urban planning. He is a professor at Boston University’s Metropolitan College in the City Planning and Urban Affairs program where this spring semester he is […]
Professor Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz’s Boston Urban Symposium class kicked off the spring semester by participating in the Spaghetti Marshmallow Challenge, a team building exercise with the goal of revealing innate personality traits about different team members in a group, as well as highlighting the different roles members undertake and overall group dynamics. The importance of team […]
On its most basic level, STEM refers to the acronym of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. But as one takes a closer look, a STEM education is an interdisciplinary approach to learning rigorous academic concepts with a focus of teaching students how to apply those hard-earned skills in more realistic situations, establishing connections between school, […]