Penn IUR UURC Request For Proposals, 2013

CPLN 528/URBS 428

Spring 2013, Wednesdays 3:00-5:00 pm

Information Session: October 10, 2012 (Wednesday)

2:30 – 3:00 pm, Penn IUR Conference Room

G-12 Meyerson Hall

Proposal Due Date: October 31, 2012

Award Notice: November 9, 2012

Spring Term Advance Registration Ends: November 11, 2012

Commencement of funds: Prior to first class on January 9, 2013

Point of Contact: Stuart Andreason, Instructor

Email: stuartan@design.upenn.edu

Secondary Penn IUR Point of Contact: Amy Montgomery, Associate Director

E-mail: amylmo@upenn.edu

Penn IUR Overview: The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) is a university-wide body

that builds on Penn’s record as an urban institution to advance urban scholarship, develop

methodical tools for urban research, and apply research to instruction and public policy. Penn IUR

enhances urban-focused knowledge through a commitment to cities on a local and global scale and

through its mission to advance sustainable urban growth and development in order to have a

positive impact on urban decision-making and public policy. Penn IUR believes that place matters

in understanding urban phenomena and that spatially-based approaches are essential to identifying

urban challenges, strategies and solutions.

In providing an umbrella for urban-focused scholarship across the University's twelve schools, Penn

IUR sponsors a number of initiatives, stimulates research, provides opportunities for collaborative

instruction, and engages with the world of practitioners and policymakers.

Course Overview: The Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium (UURC) facilitates faculty-

mentored, undergraduate urban-focused research. The program includes support for a joint faculty-

student research project and a semester-long, credit-bearing seminar. The UURC invites the

participation of faculty from across the 12 schools to undertake research on a wide range of urban

issues. Students from each of the University’s undergraduate schools (Arts and Sciences,

Engineering and Applied Science, Nursing and Wharton) are eligible to participate. The program

will sponsor up to 10 projects. Grant funds will be provided for faculty to support new and/or

existing research efforts.

Eligibility and Requirements:

All standing faculty and adjunct, practice or clinical professors in all schools are eligible.

Students must be in the spring semester of their sophomore or junior year. Seniors may be

considered if they will have a continuing role in the research project or will be at Penn after

undergraduate graduation (for example sub-matriculation into a graduate program at Penn).

Faculty must identify enrolling student as part of grant application, facilitate and supervise

student research and participate in joint faculty-student presentations throughout the

semester.

Research projects must be urban-focused and can be drawn from a range of disciplines

including, but not limited to, Anthropology, Art History, City Planning, Community and

Urban Health, Community Development, Cultural Studies, Demographics, Design,

Education, Economics, Engineering, Environmental Science, Finance, Fine Arts,

Geography, Governance, History, Historic Preservation, Housing, Humanities, Immigration,

Infrastructure, Landscape Studies, Law, Management, Medicine, Metropolitan and Regional

Studies, Natural and Applied Sciences, Poverty, Public Policy, Real Estate, Social Work,

Sociology, Transportation and Urban Studies.

Course Format: Weekly seminar attendance by students is mandatory. Faculty are expected to

attend and participate in three sessions: the first class (January 9, 2013) and two subsequent

sessions in which they will co-present their projects. At the first of these sessions they will present

the context for their research question, at the second they will support their respective students in

presenting their research design and at the last session they will support student presentations of

findings and implications. Faculty-student presentations will be approximately 45 minutes in

length. In addition to seminar attendance, faculty members will be required to meet with students

no less than three times during the course of the semester. See sample syllabus and list of past

projects below.

Grant Research Support: Grants (up to $2,000) will be available to support faculty-student

research projects. However, grants may not be used for direct faculty or student compensation

during the period of the course (but may be used for a student stipend during on-going summer

research).

Application: Applications for the UURC grant program should not exceed three pages in length

and should include:

Research Project Description: An outline of the topic/research area and its

relevance/connection to urban-focused issues. This outline should include the questions the

research seeks to address, the methodology to be employed, the research gap that is filled,

and how the proposed research expands existing knowledge within the discipline.

Student Participation and statement: Provide the name, year and school of the student. The

student should briefly describe how they see the project fitting into their course of study,

what research skills they have or hope to learn, and what they hope to gain from the course.

Detailed Project Budget: Outline use of funds in the following categories: research

materials, transportation/fieldwork, summer student stipend and other appropriate expenses.

The applications should be submitted electronically to stuartan@design.upenn.edu by October

31, 2012.

Final Deliverables: The final products of each UURC grant will be a full report outlining research

activities and outcomes as well as a 1-page summary of the research project. Students will also

create a research poster to be submitted in both electronic and hard copy format.

ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION

2012 Course Outline

Stuart Andreason, Instructor

StuartAn@design.upenn.edu

Office Hours – By appointment, please email to schedule

Course Meeting Time: Wednesday 4:00 – 6:00 except where noted

Course Description:

The Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium (UURC) is a course sponsored by the Penn

Institute for Urban Research, the Department of City and Regional Planning, and the Urban Studies

Department. The UURC is an opportunity for advanced students interested in urban issues and

research to work intensively on an urban research topic with a faculty sponsor who is an expert in

their field and research method.

The course also presents the opportunity to learn about other urban related research in an

interdisciplinary setting. Student-faculty teams come from diverse backgrounds and disciplines.

Through guest lectures, research exercises, and class discussion, students will be exposed to

different research methodologies that could be used to deepen or triangulate their own research.

Course Format:

The course will be held as a small, interactive seminar. The seminar will feature guest lecturers

working on urban research. The guests will compliment the research interests of the student

participants. Students will be expected to interact with lecturers and discuss content that is

presented.

Students will also present their research three times over the course.

1. Introduction 2. Mid-term progress reports 3. Final presentations

Faculty sponsors are expected to attend the student presentation days.

Course Texts:

The course will have one required text, Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences by Kristin Luker,

2010. The text is available at the Penn Book Store and the Penn Book Center.

Reading will primarily be assigned and available through Black Board. Readings will be selected

to compliment the guest speaker or topic for the week. They will provide an introduction and

example of the research methods discussed. Additional readings will be posted in advance of

course sessions.

Course Requirements:

1. Attendance – Students are expected to attend all sessions. Faculty are required to attend a minimum of three sessions – the presentation days – but are encouraged to attend others as well.

2. Participation – Students should be engaged in the course materials and active participants in class.

3. Assignments – The course text has informal assignments at the end of each chapter. These provide a good framework for developing research questions. Students will be expected to turn in the assignments on the days that the chapters are to be discussed.

4. Presentations – The following is expected for each presentation: a. Introduction – Students should give an informal presentation that frames the

project that they will be working on and the questions that they will answer. To supplement this discussion, students should prepare a short description of the project that defines the problem, identifies associated literature, and outlines the proposed research design. (This may be largely based on the course proposal).

b. Mid-term Progress Report – Students will give a ten-minute presentation that updates the class on the research they have been doing, challenges they have faced, and any changes to the research design that have been necessary. A four to five page, double-spaced update should be prepared as well.

c. Final Report – Students will present a 20-25 minute presentation on the results of their work to date.

The faculty advisor for the project will determine final research products for the course. Advisors

should be clear about what is expected at the beginning of the course. A very brief written

understanding of what the final product will be should be agreed upon between student and

advisor and communicated to the instructor. Final products should be turned in to both the

faculty advisor and the instructor.

Grading:

Assuming that students have fulfilled their attendance, participation, and assignment expectations,

grading will be deferred to the faculty advisor.

It will be up to faculty to determine the form, length, content, and appropriate deadlines of papers or

other products that students need to turn in. Faculty participants will also be responsible for

determining a grade for this product and making a recommendation for a final grade for the course

in mid-May (The exact deadline will be determined at the first class).

Final Course Products:

Copies of final papers and presentations are also to be given to the course instructor in both hard

copy and electronic form (due date to be supplied by instructor at the beginning of the course).

These will place them on file, creating a library/archive of colloquium projects. Additionally, each

research team will be responsible for submitting a one-page (single-spaced) description that

summarizes the project, including problem definition/research context, research methods, findings,

and implications for inclusion in the UURC summary book.

Course Schedule

(NOTE: Guest faculty are invited throughout the semester to speak on specific research topics.

Below is an example from a previous year but class topics change each year based on current

class research needs.)

I. January 11 – Introductions, 3-5 pm II. January 18 – Christine Murray III. January 25 – Amy Hillier, PennDesign, SP2 IV. February 1 – John Landis, PennDesign V. February 8 – Eugenie Birch, Penn Design VI. February 15 – TBA VII. February 22 – Mid Term Presentations VIII. February 29 – Michael Katz, Department of History, Penn IUR Event IX. March 7 – Spring Break X. March 14 – Sharon Ravitch, Penn GSE XI. March 21 – Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University XII. March 28 – Charles Branas, School of Medicine XIII. April 4 - TBA XIV. April 11 – Final Presentations, 3-6 pm XV. April 18 – Final Presentations, 3-6 pm

January 18, 2012 – Familiarizing Yourself with Urban Related Research Resources on

Campus

Guest Speaker: Christine Murray, Urban Studies Reference Librarian

Class meets in the Goldstein Electronic Classroom in Van Pelt Library Chapter 1, “Salsa Dancing? In the Social Sciences?” in Luker

January 25, 2012 – An Introduction to Spatial Analytics

Guest Speaker: Amy Hillier, Professor, Penn Design, SP2

Chapter 2, “What’s It All About” in Luker Amy Hillier, “Invitation to Mapping: How GIS Can Facilitate New Discoveries in Urban

and Planning History” in the Journal of Planning History. 2010. February 1, 2012 – Applying Spatial Trends: Projecting the Urban Growth

Guest Speaker: John Landis, Professor, Penn Design

Angel, Sheppard, and Civco, The Dynamics of Urban Expansion, World Bank available at http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTURBANDEVELOPMENT/0,,contentMDK:20970341~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:337178,00.html

Chapter 3, “An Ode to Cannonical Social Science” in Luker February 8, 2012 – Case Research in the Urban World

Guest Speaker: Eugenie L. Birch, Penn Design

Cervero, R. 2009. “Public Investment in American Cities: Infrastructure, Services, and

Delivery: Transport Infrastructure and Global Competitiveness: Balancing Mobility and

Livability.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 626: 209–226.

Flyvbjerg, Bent. 2004. “Phronetic Planning Research: Theoretical and Methodological

Reflections.” Planning Theory & Practice 5 (3) (September): 283–306.

doi:10.1080/1464935042000250195.

University City Chapter O’Mara, Margaret Pugh. 2004. Cities of Knowledge: Cold War

Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University

Press.

Chapter 4 February 15, 2012 – Session Communicating Research and InDesign Literacy

Chapter 5 February 22, 2012

Mid-term presentations February 29, 2012 – Penn IUR Public Interest Lecture Series

Michael Katz Presentation, “Why American Cities Don’t Burn” Penn Institute for Urban Research Public Interest Lecture Series at the Inn at Penn Living Room meeting from 5:30 – 7:00 pm.

Chapters 1,2, and ”The Existential Problem of Urban Studies” in Why Don’t American Cities Burn?, Katz

Chapter 7 in Luker March 7, 2012

No Meeting, Spring Break March 14, 2012 – Ethics and Considerations in International and Collaborative Qualitative

Research

Guest Speaker: Sharon Ravitch, Professor, Penn Graduate School of Education

Selections from Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach, Maxwell Selections from Ravitch et. al Chapter 8 in Luker

March 21, 2012 – TheRichardson Dilworth, Professor, Drexel University

Dilworth, Introduction, Drexel Law Review special issue on Business Improvement Districts

Chapter 9 in Luker March 28, 2012 – Charles Branas, Professor, Penn Perlman School of Medicine

Branas CC, Cheney RA, MacDonald JM, Tam VW, Jackson TD, Ten Have TR: A difference-in-differences analysis of health, safety, and greening vacant urban space. American Journal of Epidemiology 2011; 174: 1-11

Chapter 10 in Luker April 4, 2012 – Communicating Research, Applying Lessons, Continuing Study and Course

Wrap Up and Presentation Preparation

Chapter 11 in Luker April 11, 2012

Final Presentations April 18, 2012

Final Presentations

2012 Guest Speaker Biographies

Eugenie L. Birch

Professor Birch is the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair of Urban Research and Education. She teaches

courses in planning history and global urbanization.

Professor Birch has been active in the field's professional organizations and in academia in the

United States and abroad. In 2000, she was elected to the College of Fellows of the American

Institute of Certified Planners and made a member (honorary) of the Royal Town Planning Institute.

She has been a member of the Planning Accreditation Board, having served as its chair from 2004-

2006. She has been President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning; President,

Society of American City and Regional Planning History; and co-editor, Journal of the American

Planning Association. She is currently President, International Planning History Society and

Associate Editor, Journal of the American Planning Association.

She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Planning Association,

Journal of Planning History, and Planning Perspectives.

She has been Visiting Scholar, Queens University, Foreign Scholar, University of Hong Kong and

Visiting Professor, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning has given her the Margarita McCoy Award, "in

recognition of her outstanding contribution to furthering the advancement of women in the planning

academy" (994), the Jay Chatterjee Award for Distinguished Service that "recognizes an individual

whose exceptional service, actions and leadership have had a lasting and positive impact on the

ACSP"(2006) and the Distinguished Educator Award (2009) in recognition of her teaching and

research. The Society of American City and Regional Planning History awarded her its Lawrence

C. Gerckens Prize (2009) in recognition of her contributions to planning history.

Professor Birch's civic commitments include serving on the board of trustees of the Municipal Art

Society of New York, Scenic Hudson, Inc and the International Downtown Association. She is co-

chair, UN-HABITAT's World Urban Campaign. In the early 1990s she was a member of the City

Planning Commission, New York City and in 2002, she served on the jury to select the designers

for the World Trade Center site.

Charles Branas

Charles Branas is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Cartographic

Modeling Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also held numerous other university

appointments, including as a Penn Fellow in the University Office of the Provost. Dr. Branas works

to improve health and healthcare and is recognized for his efforts to reduce violence and enhance

emergency care. Much of his work incorporates human geography and spatial interactions. His

studies have taken him to various places including the neighborhoods of Philadelphia, rural counties

across the US and cities and small towns in Guatemala and other countries. Dr. Branas has been on

various boards and scientific review panels at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for

Disease Control, the Canadian National Research Council, the South African Medical Research

Council, and is a Past President of the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research.

Before coming to Penn, he trained and conducted research at both the Johns Hopkins and

University of California, Berkeley Schools of Public Health and worked at the US Department of

Health and Human Services

Richardson Dilworth

Dr. Dilworth’s research focuses on urban political development and urban public policy. He is the

author of The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy (2005) and the editor of two books: The City

in American Political Development (2009) and Social Capital in the City: Community and Civic

Life in Philadelphia (2006). In 2008 he was a visiting scholar at the Legislative Office for Research

Liaison of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and in 2009 a visiting scholar at the Center

for Environmental Policy at the Academy of Natural Sciences. In 2008 he was appointed by Mayor

Michael Nutter to serve on the Philadelphia Historical Commission, where he is chair of the

Historic Designation Committee.

Dr. Dilworth also the Director of Drexel's Center for Public Policy (CPP). The CPP supports

interdisciplinary policy-oriented scholarship among Drexel faculty and other external affiliates, and

engages students in this research through its innovative Master of Science in Public Policy (MSPP)

degree program.

Amy Hillier

Professor Amy Hillier teaches courses on the application of GIS in city planning, urban studies,

public health and social work. Her research focuses on issues of geographic disparities and GIS

applications in redlining and housing discrimination, affordable housing, and public health. Her

dissertation, funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), considered the

impact of the Home Owner's Loan Corporation on lending in Philadelphia. She continued this

research as a HUD Urban Scholars Post-doctoral Fellow. See http://cml.upenn.edu/redlining

Professor Hillier is a partner on the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's PhilaPlace project, a

neighborhood and cultural history project focused on South Philadelphia and Northern Liberties.

Dr. Hillier and her students are working on the mapping component, which includes static GIS

maps and and an interactive mapping system that allows current and former residents to share

stories about their neighborhoods. See http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=1239

Professor Hillier's public health research has focused primarily on obesity. Her FED-UP project

(Food and Exercise Diaries for Urban Places) looks at the availability of junk food near schools and

how that might impact children's weight status. FED-UP will use interactive mapping and handheld

wireless technology to allow children to show the route they take to school and the specific food

items they purchase on the way.

Prior to joining the faculty at PennDesign, Dr. Hillier worked at the University of Pennsylvania's

Cartographic Modeling Lab (CML) where she was the director of research. While at the CML, she

worked with faculty across disciplines to integrate GIS and spatial analysis into their projects

relating to obesity, gun violence, pre-term birth, and injuries to children.

John Landis

He teaches courses in housing, urban economics, GIS, project development, and sustainable urban

development.

Prof. Landis' research interests span a variety of urban development topics; his recent research and

publications focus on growth management, infill housing, and the geography of urban employment

centers.

Together with several generations of Ph.D. students, Prof. Landis developed the California Urban

Futures series of urban growth models. He is currently engaged in a National Science Foundation-

funded project to model, forecast, and develop alternative spatial scenarios of U.S. population and

employment patterns and their impacts on travel demand, habitat loss, and water use through 2050.

Prior to arriving at Penn in 2007, Prof. Landis was on the planning faculties of the University of

California, Berkeley (1987–2007), Georgia Tech (1985–1986), and the University of Rhode Island

(1983–1984).

Prof. Landis serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Planning Association and

Housing Policy Debate. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the American Planning

Association.

Sharon Ravitch

Dr. Ravitch earned her doctorate at Penn GSE, where she was a Dean’s Fellow and Cantor

Fitzgerald Fellow in the Education, Culture, and Society Program, combining anthropology,

sociology, and education to study race, culture, identity and inequity in schools and society more

broadly. Dr. Ravitch’s doctoral work focused on multicultural teacher education with a specific

interest in how teachers learn to critically engage with issues of social location, inequity, and

pedagogy. In her earlier graduate work, she collaborated in the development of a conceptual

framework for the integration of interpretive philosophies into applied development work, with a

focus on theory, research, practice integrations (Nakkula & Ravitch, 1998). Dr. Ravitch’s research

in institutional ethnography and practice-based inquiry is grounded in her experiences working with

a range of educational practitioners and business professionals across these various domains and

content areas. Her work integrates across the fields of qualitative research, education, cultural

anthropology, psychology and applied development.

Dr. Ravitch is the research co-director at the Center for the Study of Boys’ and Girls’ Lives. She is

the principal investigator of several applied development research projects in developing countries

including Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Haiti and of two multi-year evaluations and that focus on

professional and organizational development in educational and corporate contexts. She currently

serves as Senior International Advisor to the Haitian Ministry of Education to work on educational

reconstruction in post-earthquake Haiti.

GUEST SPEAKERS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS

Dr. Mary Summers

Mary Summers is a lecturer at the Political Science department of the University of Pennsylvania.

She teaches academically based community service seminars and directs an associated speakers’

series for the Fox Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and

Sciences. Dr. Summers is the principal investigator for a research grant from the USDA to the

Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger investigating the use of students and community

volunteers in developing a food stamp enrollment campaign. She also seeks to develop effective

models for the use of service learning students in inner city schools.

Dr. Eric Schneider

Eric Schneider is the Associate Director of Academic Affairs in the School of Arts and Sciences

and Adjunct Associate Professor of History. His work focuses on the history of youth and

adolescence, the history of criminal justice, and U.S. urban and social history. Professor

Schneider’s current research project is on the history of heroin and its impact on the American city

in the years between 1940 and 1980. He has been a program officer in a state program of the

National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as a public historian at the American History

Workshop.

Dr. Don Kettl

Donald F. Kettl is the Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is

Director of the Fels Institute of Government and Professor of Political Science. Professor Kettl is a

student of public policy and public management and specializes in the management of public

organizations. He has consulted broadly for government organizations at all levels in the United

State and abroad, and is a regular columnist for Governing magazine, read by local and state

government officials across the country.

Dr. Dennis Culhane

Dennis Culhane is the Co-Director of the Cartographic Modeling Lab and Associate Professor of

Social Welfare Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences. Professor

Culhane’s primary areas of research are homelessness, housing policy, and policy analysis research

methods. His current work includes studies of the impact of homelessness on the utilization of

health, corrections and social services in New York City and Philadelphia. He is currently leading

an effort to integrate property, neighborhood, and human services data from Philadelphia into

several geographic information system applications to support policy analysis and program

planning and evaluation.

Georgette Phillips, J.D.

Professor Phillips is the Vice Dean of the Wharton Undergraduate Division; a Professor of Real

Estate and Legal Studies at Wharton, and a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law

School. She lectures internationally on topics in commercial real estate and urban planning and is a

contributing editor of the Real Estate Law Journal and a member of the Editorial Board of The

Practical Real Estate Lawyer. Her current research focuses on real estate law, urban and regional

planning, housing, and real estate transactions.

Dr. Judith Goode

Professor Goode is a Professor of Anthropology at Temple University. Her research interests focus

on urban anthropology and the anthropology of social policy. Professor Goode’s major

Philadelphia-based field projects explore the intersection of race and class in local neighborhoods

as the city undergoes massive economic and demographic transition. Since 1999, she has been

looking at the impact of different government interventions on poor people's civic participation in

three neighborhoods.

Dr. John L. Jackson, Jr.

Dr. Jackson is Richard Perry University Associate Professor of Communication and Anthropology.

He specializes in ethnographic methods in media analysis; the impact of mass media on urban life;

mediamaking as a form of community-building and proselytizing among religious organizations;

globalization and the remaking of ethnic/racial diasporas; visual studies and theories of reality; and

racialization and media technology. His “Televised Redemption,” with Marla Frederick (Harvard)

and Carolyn Rouse (Princeton), is a book that discusses qualitative research methods for studying

contemporary black religious groups, with special emphasis on the ways in which African-

Americans deploy media technology as part of their religious/spiritual communities.

Dr. Juris Milestone

Dr. Milestone received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University in January 2007. His

dissertation is titled “Universities, Cities, Design, and Development: An Anthropology of Aesthetic

Expertise”, and was funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and

Temple University. Ethnographic fieldwork took place during a university-community partnership

engaged in economic and community development through the application of urban design. He is

also teaching in the Critical Writing Program at Penn and recently published “Design as Power:

Paul Virilio and the Governmentality of Design Expertise” in Culture, Theory and Critique 48(2),

Oct. 2007.

Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium Project Posters

Students will prepare both electronic and hard copy posters that convey their research and findings.

The posters will be made available online through the Penn Institute for Urban Research website.

They will also be on display at a Penn IUR event at the end of the semester. The posters will help

disseminate the work that the student and faculty teams have completed and help students think

about how to convey their work through visual means.

Students are given a great deal of creative freedom with the posters and their formats. Template

files (in Adobe InDesign) will be provided. We will also hold a tutorial on how to use the program

for students who may need an introduction. We can help with printing as well.

Preparation of the posters should be an ongoing project throughout the semester. The class will

review progress and devote class time to making clear and aesthetically pleasing posters.

Posters should be 36” by 48” either landscape or portrait format. The electronic files should be

exported as PDF files.

PENN IUR PARTICIPANTS AND PROJECTS, 2005-2011

9 Schools represented, 45 Faculty members

Spring 2012

Faculty Student Project

Barbara Mann Wall,

Nursing

Lauren Johnson, Nursing Medicalized Childbirth and Medical

Mission Sisters in Africa

Jonathan Barnett,

Design

Claire Shimberg, SAS District Level Energy Efficiency and

The Role of Urban Business

Improvement Districts

Genie Birch, Design Ian MacLean, SAS Energy Education on the Penn Campus

and the PJM Widget

Saswati Sarkar,

Engineering

Ram Narayan, SAS

The Economic Geography of Smart

Grid Business in America

Matthew McHugh,

Nursing

Julie Berez Nursing Practice and Patient Outcomes

in Urban Hospitals

Eric Schneider, SAS Samantha Napierkowski,

SAS

American Necropolis: Homicide in the

Modern City

Eric Schneider, SAS Julian Smyth, SAS American Necropolis: Homicide in the

Modern City

Domenic Vitiello,

Design

Katie Oberwager, SAS

Latin American Immigrant Urban

Agriculture

Kathy Hall, GSE Bailey Brown, SAS Mapping School Choice: A Geospatial

Analysis of Educational Markets in the

Greater Philadelphia Region

Spring 2011 Number of Students: 9; Number of Faculty: 7

Faculty Student Project

Brian Spooner, SAS Jamie Etkind, SAS An Evaluation of the Feasibility of

Replicating Different Models of

Assisted Community Schools

Fariha Khan, SAS Emily Goshey, SAS African American Muslims: An

Exploration of Identity in Philadelphia

George Thomas, SAS Willa Granger, SAS The Impact of the Franklin Institute on

Nineteenth Century Philadelphia

Mary Summers, SAS Rebecca Havivi, SAS Growing Urban Utopias: Exploring

Educational Urban Agriculture in West

Philadelphia

Genie Birch, Design Aaron Lewis, SAS Governance of Urban Water in

Pakistan

Brian Spooner, SAS Sindhuri Nandhakumar, SAS Examining the Civic Engagement of

Muslims in Philadelphia

Brian Spooner, SAS Sugandha Singh, SAS Proposal for Reproductive Health

Research Project in India

Felipe Gorostiza, SAS Nicole Thomas, SAS

The Role of Community Development

Corporations in West Philadelphia

Phillipe Bourgois, SAS Taryn Williams, SAS Hopeless in Philadelphia: A City in

Need

Spring 2010 Number of Students: 13; Number of Faculty: 11

Faculty Student Project

Eug nie Birch, Design Joanna Karaman, SAS Bernice Elza Homes, A Case Study in

Sustainable Urban Development

Carolyn C. Cannuscio,

Medicine

Roopa Gogineni, SAS African Muslims on the Health of

Philadelphia: a Photo-documentation

Project

Carolyn C. Cannuscio,

Medicine

Sarah Sánchez, SAS Homeowners in Default or Foreclosure:

an examination of the health

implications of financial strain

Fernando Ferreira,

Wharton

Sue (Shou) Hua, SAS The Impact of Income Distribution on

School Investment in Philadelphia, PA

Ira Harkavy, SAS Haywood Perry, SAS The Role of Urban University

Undergraduate Student Organizations-

Community Relations

Michael Katz, SAS Will Darwall, SAS Immigration and Urban Revitalization

Heather Sharkey, SAS Yuval Orr, SAS Hip-Hop in Fes: Islam, Faith, and the

Convergence of Cultures

Mary Summers, SAS Shane McWilliams, SAS Identifying Key Causal Factors in

County/State Food Stamp Enrollment

Rates

Domenic Vitiello,

Design

Juliana Pineda, SAS Civil Society and Economic Integration

in Puerto Rican and Mexican

Philadelphia

Brian Spooner, SAS Misha Chakrabarti, SAS Water-related Urban Issues

Brian Spooner, SAS Sandra Zhao, SAS Gender in Global Community Gardens

Rachel Weinberger,

Design

Alexandra Malikova, SEAS Measuring Walkability in Urban

Environments

Richard Wesley,

Design

Ayasha Guerin, SAS Undergraduate Course on Green

Architecture and Urban Sustainability

Spring 2009

Number of students: 8; Number of faculty: 7

Faculty Student Project

Philippe Bourgois, SAS George Karandinos, SAS Income Generating Strategies of

Three Social Networks of Puerto

Rican Youth

Richard Pepino, SAS Jana Ariel Hirsch, SAS Heavy Metal Contaminants in Urban

Community Gardens

Eric Schneider, SAS Alison Marcus, SAS American Necropolis: The History of

Homicide and Homicide as History

Heather Sharkey, SAS Cameron Hu, SAS Fever Dreams of the Modern -Urban

Products and Spatial Politics on the

Arabian Gulf

Harris Steinberg,

Design

Gabriella Blake, SAS The Role of Public Participation and

Civic Engagement in the Creation of

Public Art in Philadelphia

Mary Summers, SAS Sheyla Medina, SAS Lea Lunch and Recess Initiative

Mary Summers, SAS Elise Miller, SAS Efficacy of Student Volunteers with

Internet Access to Assist Clients with

Enrollment in Public Benefits

Programs at City Health Clinics

Domenic Vitiello,

Design

Ben Dubow, SAS Community Development in Arab

and Muslim Philadelphia

Spring 2008 Number of students: 10; Number of faculty: 9

Faculty Student Project

Philippe Bourgois, SAS Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot,

SAS

Ethnography of the harm reduction

potential of North Philadelphia

shooting galleries

Philippe Bourgois, SAS Carlos Martinez-Ruiz, SAS Ethnographic exploration of

challenges to accessing and adhering

to HIV services among Latinos in

North Philadelphia: a community-

based collaboration

Carolyn C. Cannuscio,

Medicine

Jeannette P Schroeder, SAS Filthadelphia: a systematic analysis of

the causes and health consequences of

inadequate waste management in a

large US city.

Domenic Vitiello,

Design

Yuri Castaño, SAS Social movements and community

development in Latino Philadelphia

Eugenie Birch, Design Ashwin G. Shandilya,

Wharton

The rise of car share projects in U.S.

cities

Brian Spooner, SAS Zohra Ahmed, SAS Clarifying existing definitions of

globalization and building on them to

enrich our understanding of the

processes of qualitative social change

in different parts of the world

John Puckett, GSE Jennifer Bronson, SAS

Jessica Levine, SAS

History of the University of

Pennsylvania expansion in West

Philadelphia

Tom Sugrue, SAS Christina Graysom, SAS The Philadelphia Civil Rights

Documentation Project

Andy Lamas, SAS Sarah Iosifescu, Wharton Leadership among community

development financial institutions

Spring 2007 Number of students: 9; Number of faculty: 9

Faculty Student Project

Anne Teitelman,

Nursing

Caitlin Phillips, Nursing Understanding Teen Partner Violence

and Pathways to Safety

Diane Spatz, Nursing

Roberta Cricco-Lizza,

Nursing

Catherine Repetto, Nursing Mothers' Beliefs and Experiences

Regarding Breastfeeding in Public

Urban Areas

Domenic Vitiello, SAS

(Urban Studies)

Oscar Benitez, SAS Documenting the Undocumented:

Community and Economic

Development among Mexican

Immigrants

Vukan Vuchic, SEAS Benjamin Schneider, SAS Definition of the national rail

passenger system needed in the

United States

Stella Volpe, Nursing Allison Ramsey-Lefevre,

Nursing

Assessment of the effect of "Girls on

the Go" program on the fitness of 3rd-

5th grade girls

Jennifer Leung, Design Andrew Turner, SAS

Sarah DeWolf, SAS

Baghdad Year Zero

John Kromer, Fels Joshua Hoffman, SAS Tax Delinquent Properties in

Philadelphia

Eugenie Birch, Design Courtney Edwards Anchor Institutions

Spring 2006 Number of students: 9; Number of faculty: 7

Faculty Student Project

Kathy Schultz, GSE Stephanie Mendiola, SAS

Danielle Hardoon, SAS

Documenting the experiences of new

"Teach for America" teachers, and

exploring the changing natures of

their career goals as connected to

their experiences in Philadelphia

classrooms

Ram Cnaan, Social

Policy and Practice

Shakirah Simley, SAS

Evan Fain, SAS

Exploring urban-suburban

congregational collaborations in the

Greater Philadelphia area

Christopher Coleman,

Nursing

Katherine Ball, Nursing Examining the effects of HAART on

health-related quality of life among

HIV sero-positive African Americans

Rachel Weinberger,

Design

Continuing a project that examined

gender differences in commute time

in San Francisco by comparing the

findings to research in Philadelphia

Thomas McKenna,

SAS (Fels)

Lindsay Berger, SAS Examining youth advocacy groups

and political activity among

Philadelphia youths and comparing it

to similar research done in San

Francisco by the University of

Michigan

Eileen Sullivan-Marx,

Nursing

Cindy Lou Cuesta, Nursing Examining the health promotion

activities of urban dwelling older

adults in Philadelphia

Mary Summers, SAS Yan (Julie) Shen, SAS

Jessica Appleton, SAS

Examining barriers to food stamp

access for eligible Philadelphians

Spring 2005 Number of students: 11; Number of faculty: 12

Faculty Student Project

Stella Volpe, Nursing Elizabeth (Bess) Staebler,

Nursing

Identifying and evaluating barriers to

walking or bicycling for low-income

African-Americans in West

Philadelphia

Thomas J. Sugrue, SAS

(History)

Andrew Goodman, SAS The politicization of police-

community relations and black urban

politics in the North, c. 1960-1980

Dennis P. Culhane,

Social Work

Abukari Zuberi, SAS The impact of affordable homeowner

and rental housing projects in

Philadelphia funded through

Philadelphia's community

Development Block Grant funding

Linda A. McCauley,

Nursing

Justine B. Llop, Nursing Development of an urban registry for

sexual assault cases

Eric Schneider, SAS

(History); Amy Hillier,

SSW/SAS (Urban

Studies)

Benjamin Berman, SAS To create an online GIS version of

The Philadelphia Negro, the classic

work of sociology written by W.E.B.

DuBois in 1898 based on his survey

of Philadelphia's old 7th ward.

Rachel Weinberger,

Design (City Planning)

Tara Krueger, SAS Update the research documented in

Weinberger and Chapple's 1996

paper, "Is Shorter Better? An analysis

of gender, race, and industrial

segregation in San Francisco Bay

Area commuting patterns," using

2000 public use micro-sample

(PUMS) data.

Fernando Vendramel

Ferreira, Wharton (Real

Estate)

Alex Dogariu, SAS Does Legal Status Matter? Effects of

the 1986 Immigration Reform and

Control Act Amnesty on Residential

Choice.

David Grazian, SAS

(Sociology)

Rebecca Aronson, SAS How the anonymity of urban nightlife

affords young persons the opportunity

to experiment with adult roles and

urban lifestyles as they negotiate their

way through the city and to fulfill

fantasies of urban life.

Andrea B. Troxel,

Medicine (Biostatistics

and Epidemiology)

Katherine Fleming, SAS To decrease the level of conflict in

the 1st and 2nd grade classrooms at

Charles R. Drew Elementary School

by implementing a conflict resolution

program involving story-telling and

"conflict resolution" activities in the

classroom.

Diana Slaughter-Defoe,

GSE

Jay Ahlmer, Wharton Evaluating the feasibility of

developing Philadelphia Freedom

Schools

Lynne Sagalyn,

Wharton/Design

Peter M. Volynsky, Wharton The Impact of Preservation upon

Value and the Urban Landscape