Welcoming our new 2024-2025 cohort of URBAN trainees!
We are thrilled to welcome 11 new trainees to BU URBAN this fall! Check out their bios below. To learn about all our current trainees, click here.
Category: Trainee Spotlight
Trainee Alina McIntyre wins the BU IGS 2023 Peter Fox-Penner Graduate Student Award!
Congratulations to URBAN Trainee Alina McIntyre, who has won the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability 2023 Peter Fox-Penner Graduate Student Award, given annually to a student who has made a significant contribution to research or practice in the realm of sustainability & climate change and/or equity & justice. Alina is a Ph.D. Candidate in […]
Welcoming our new 2023-2024 cohort of URBAN trainees!
We are thrilled to welcome 8 new trainees to BU URBAN this fall! Check out their bios below. To learn about all our current trainees, click here.
URBAN Trainees Lead Workshop to Demystify Policymaker Engagement for Fellow Early-Career Scientists
On Saturday, November 12, 2022, URBAN trainees Emma Conrad-Rooney and Sasha Gilmore hosted a workshop along with Danielle Fox from the Union of Concerned Scientists called Demystifying Policymaker Engagement: Tips for Early Career Scientists by Early Career Scientists at the 2022 National oSTEM Annual Conference. Emma and Sasha created the workshop in partnership with URBAN trainee Katie Atherton and […]
Thinking About Positionality: A Discussion with URBAN Trainees
Our Impact Intern, Aika Ulanova, recently sat down with URBAN trainees Kathryn Rodgers and Alina McIntyre to moderate a discussion on the concept of positionality in the workplace from various perspectives. Positionality is the idea that our personal views, values, identities, and social context shape how we view ourselves in the world and how the […]
Q&A with Trainee Yasmin Romitti
Yasmin Romitti is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth & Environment and a trainee in the BU URBAN Program. Her research focuses on the nexus of climate impacts, energy, and health. Yasmin has a B.S. from Boston University and an M.A. from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. On June 9th, 2022 Yasmin was […]
Q&A with Trainee Claudia Diezmartínez
Claudia Diezmartínez is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth & Environment and a trainee in the BU URBAN Program. Her research focuses on urban climate policy and climate justice. Originally from Mexico, Claudia received her B.S. from Tecnológico de Monterrey and her M.Phil. from University of Cambridge, UK. On Tuesday, December 7th, 2021, […]
Three New Student Spotlight Videos!
BU URBAN trainees study urban environmental issues like air pollution, climate justice, and water quality, with the goal of finding innovative, interdisciplinary solutions that provide hope for the future of urban communities. We are thrilled to present three short videos created by EmVision Productions that highlight the work of URBAN trainees, how they are helping cities […]
Trainee Beth Haley Receives Outstanding Student Presentation Award at AGU 2019!
Congrats to #NSFNRT Trainee @BethMHaley for the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at #AGU2019! Characterizing patterns of combined sewer discharge in a drinking water source: Spatiotemporal variation of fecal indicator bacteria in the Merrimack River@AguGeohealth @busphEH — BU Urban Biogeoscience & Environmental Health (@bu_urban) January 29, 2020