Faculty working with the IOC
In partnership with the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Initiative on Cities is excited to fund open access research by Boston University Earth & Environment Professors Sucharita Gopal and Nathan Phillips. Professors Gopal and Phillips used a data driven approach to define sustainability, resiliency and metabolism metrics that will provide […]
Dr. Jillian Goldfarb, Research Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, was recently awarded a Teaching/Research Fulbright for her project “Global Insights into Sustainable Energy Engineering and Sustainable Solutions for Municipal Solid Waste Management.” Professor Goldfarb will complete her Fulbright appointment at the University of Trento, Italy in Spring 2017. At the […]
This past spring, with a grant from the Initiative on Cities, Earth and Environment Associate Professor Lucy Hutyra and Postdoctoral Researcher Conor Gately completed a comprehensive inventory of greenhouse gas emissions for the City of Providence, Rhode Island. The City of Providence had approached the team as part of an initiative coming out of the […]
Earth and Environment Ph.D. candidate Andrew Trlica, under the advisement of Associate Professor and Founder of the Hutyra Research Lab Lucy Hutyra, seeks to study urban heat islands (UHI), identifying the linkages between urban land cover and surface temperature. Specifically, he will focus on the effect of albedo—the percent of total sunlight reflected rather than […]
Research Assistant Professor Patricia Fabian and Professor Thomas Little, both of Boston University, and Harvard Assistant Professor Gary Adamkiewicz seek to build and test a compact low-cost indoor air quality and occupancy sensing device (Urban Indoor Air Monitor, or iAM) in an ongoing housing field study in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Fabian, Little and Adamkiewicz will install […]
Sociology Ph.D. candidate Sarah Hosman, under the advisement of Professor of Sociology Japonica Brown-Saracino, will examine the urban identity of the Boston neighborhood of Allston. Rather than following typical patterns of gentrification of disinvestment, Allston has instead fluctuated between decline and ascent as Boston’s “student ghetto”. Hosman seeks to understand how the neighborhood’s fluctuating trajectory […]
Associate Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino will examine thirty years of extant gentrification scholarship to identify definitional differences, research trends and knowledge gaps. She will address several key themes including: Core features of sociological approaches to gentrification, including examinations of racial, residential, commercial and educational impacts Gentrification’s origins, dynamics and consequences Policy recommendations that have emerged from […]
In Phase II of an ongoing collaboration with Wells Fargo to reduce energy costs and energy use in urban housing, Professors Robert Kaufmann, Nalin Kulatilaka, and Associate Professor Michael Gevelber seek to build on their preliminary research results. Phase II will develop further tools and models to analyze efficient-technology investment and identify the most effective […]
Led by Professor Judith Gonyea, along with Ph.D. candidate Yeonjung Lee, this project seeks to investigate the relationship between older low-income community residents’ subjective perceptions of their environmental resources and problems and their emotional health. This study will also explore racial and ethnic patterns of the prevalence and correlates of depression among low-income residents of […]
Assistant Professor Astraea Augsberger and Professor and Associate Dean Mary Collins seek to conduct a study to examine seeks to understand the range of topics youth councils address, youth involvement in the councils, and potential barriers to youth involvement in youth councils in the Boston metropolitan region. As a component of the study, Augsberger and […]