IOC Urban Research Awards Spark City-Focused Scholarship

The Initiative on Cities (IOC) distributed over $116,000 in seed funding in Fiscal Year 2015 to support 17 urban research projects Boston University (BU). The IOC Urban Research Awards, grants ranging from $3,000 to $10,000, were made available through the our first RFP in the Spring of 2015. Awards were open to BU faculty as well as BU graduate students operating with faculty oversight.

Funded research projects range from the impact of second homeownership on neighborhoods to municipal waste-to-energy conversion, best practices in pest control to mayoral decision-making, highlighting the incredible academic diversity at the University.

For a full list of all IOC-funded urban research projects, visit our Research In Progress database.

The IOC is committed to promoting urban scholarship at Boston University. We look forward to featuring these and other projects at events throughout the coming year. Our events schedule can be viewed on our online calendar.

The IOC will also be releasing a new RFP for the IOC Research Awards in the Spring of 2016.