The Impact of Racism on Urban Belowground Biodiversity
Principal Investigator: Co-Principal Investigator: Healthy soils are a key measure of urban green space quality. In particular, soil microbial diversity is a crucial ecosystem service provided by urban green spaces, providing nutrients to urban plants, sequestering carbon in soil, and suppressing pathogens. Urbanization can reduce soil microbial diversity and increase the abundance of human pathogens, […]
Stress in the City: Examining metabolic consequences of toxicological exposures in resilient urban corals under global change stressors
Principal Investigator: Co-Principal Investigators: Marine organisms located offshore from urban centers face potentially negative interactive effects from pollutants (heavy metals, microplastics, pharmaceuticals, increased nutrients) and global change stressors (increasing sea temperature and acidity). Corals are just one example of a marine urban organism that may be vulnerable to these stressors. One seemingly resilient coral is […]
Reentry, Employment and Persisting Inequality: Understanding the experiences of formerly incarcerated jobseekers with employment reentry programs
Principal Investigator: Co-Principal Investigator: Today in the United States, 50% of formerly incarcerated people remain unemployed in the year following their release. Over the past decades, prisoner reentry programs have increasingly provided formerly incarcerated jobseekers with services such as job training, job-placement assistance and other job-search related resources. When examining the dynamics and outcomes of […]
The Urban/Suburban Educational Divide: Racial Inequities and Shifting Landscapes
Held on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Schools in urban and suburban locations can vary immensely in quality, increasing the importance of where we send our kids to school. But why are some schools better than others? How has America’s notion of a good school deepened educational and racial inequities? The IOC and the BU Wheelock […]
Meet An Vu Minh Pham, the summer 2021 City of Chelsea Open Data & Digital Communications Fellow
The Initiative on Cities (IOC) is proud to announce that An Vu Minh Pham has been selected as the summer 20201 City of Chelsea Open Data & Digital Communications Initiatives Fellow. Avi will have the opportunity to help advance the City’s open data and digital communications initiatives while gaining first-hand insight and experience into how […]
Meet Avi Nguyen, the summer 2021 MORRE Fellow
The Initiative on Cities (IOC) and the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground are proud to announce that Avi Nguyen has been selected as the summer 2021 MORRE Fellow. Avi will spend the summer working with the City of Boston’s Chief Resilience Officer, Ms. Lori Nelson, in the Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity (MORRE). As Chief Resilience […]
Meet Kimberly Rhoten, JD, the summer 2021 MONUM Fellow
The Initiative on Cities (IOC) is proud to announce that Kimberly Rhoten (they/them) has been selected as the summer 2021 MONUM Fellow. Kimberly will spend the summer working with the City of Boston, within the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics(MONUM). MONUM is Boston’s civic innovation team, responsible for promoting participatory urbanism, along with smarter city infrastructure and […]
Meet Deep Patel, the 2021 Mayor’s Office of Policy & Planning Fellow
The Initiative on Cities (IOC) is proud to announce that Deep Patel has been selected as the summer 2021 Mayor’s Office of Policy & Planning Fellow. Deep was initially awarded a summer fellowship with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority in Manchester, England. However, the fellowship was cancelled this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Instead […]
Faculty Friday: Yuhei Miyauchi
Faculty Friday is a series highlighting members of the Initiative on Cities (IOC) Faculty Advisory Board, by exploring their work on campus and in the city. This week, we are highlighting Yuhei Miyauchi, Assistant Professor of Economics at the College of Arts & Sciences. By Claudia Chiappa Yuhei Miyauchi has always been interested in how people […]
IOC Associate Director Stacy Fox Inducted into Tri-Alpha National Honor Society for Achievements as a First Generation College Student
The Initiative on Cities (IOC) congratulates Stacy Fox, IOC’s Associate Director, and all 533 BU students, faculty, and staff that were inducted as inaugural members of Boston University’s chapter of the Alpha Alpha Alpha honor society for first-generation students. The induction included a virtual ceremony on April 26 hosted by BU’s Newbury Center, which helps […]