Protecting Our Urban Water Sources: Developing a Solar Energy-Activated Nitrate Reduction Catalyst Associate Professor Linda Doerrer from the Department of Chemistry with Ph.D. candidate Jessica Elinburg were awarded an IOC Early Stage Urban Research Award to advance their vision of creating a sunlight-activated nitrate reduction electrocatalyst for urban water purification. Click here to learn more […]
Protecting Our Urban Water Sources: Developing a Solar Energy-Activated Nitrate Reduction Catalyst Associate Professor Linda Doerrer from the Department of Chemistry with Ph.D. candidate Jessica Elinburg were awarded an IOC Early Stage Urban Research Award to advance their vision of creating a sunlight-activated nitrate reduction electrocatalyst for urban water purification. Doerrer and her lab will […]
The Initiative on Cities is delighted to share The Work Permit Initiative for Syrian Refugees in Jordan: Implications for Policy and Practice, a research and policy report by Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies Masters Candidate Vicky Kelberer. In conjunction with the Boston Consortium on Arab Region Studies and the United Nations High Commissioner […]
The IOC is dedicated to supporting urban research by Boston University faculty and students. Our Early Stage Urban Research Awards provide seed funding across campus, distributed each year through a spring RFP. Want to learn about all of our 2016 Awards Winners? Click here to see a complete list! This year, we are funding 11 […]
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 […]
Boston University School of Social Work doctoral student Kendall Johnson and Assistant Professor Linda Sprague Martinez will conduct an in-depth analysis of the Women Survivors of Homicide Movement (WSOHM), aimed at informing the organization’s existing work. They will conduct systematic analysis of WSOHM and their change strategy and tactics in order to examine how multifaceted […]
Department of Economics Assistant Professor Martin Fiszbein will examine eighty years of data on U.S cities to explore the correlation between urban economic diversity (the degree of variety in production activities) and medium and long-term economic performance. Fiszbein will establish conclusive evidence on the impact of economic diversity on growth and development, shed light on […]
Dr. Noora Anwar Lori, an Assistant Professor in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, with Pardee Masters student Vicky Kelberer and in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, will develop an impact assessment of work permits on the livelihoods of Syrian refugees living in Jordan. Jordan has recently taken a […]
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 […]
Environmental Public Health Ph.D. candidate Lindsay Underhill, under the direction of School of Public Health Associate Chair and Professor Jonathan Levy, will develop flexible building simulation prototypes that model the urban multi-family housing stock in Massachusetts. These simulation models will be used to examine seasonal indoor pollutant concentrations and identify energy-efficient and health protective housing […]