Whether it’s a Q & A spotlighting one of our trainees, hosting a panel at a Congressional Briefing, or discussing climate policy with experts and leaders in Washington D.C., we’ll keep you up to date on all things BU URBAN!
Welcoming our newest cohort of URBAN Trainees!
We are thrilled to welcome six new trainees to BU URBAN this fall! Check out their bios below. To learn about all our current trainees, click here.
Join us for the Urban Ideashop, July 15, 2020, 2-3pm
Calling all BU Graduate Students! Join us on Wednesday, July 15, 2 – 3 pm for our inaugural “Urban Ideashop” focused on Boston-area research, hosted in partnership with BU’s Initiative on Cities and the Urban Inequality Doctoral Workshop. Share ideas with graduate students from across Boston University and learn about new resources and collaborative... More
BU URBAN will be participating in #ShutDownSTEM on June 10, 2020
On Wednesday, June 10, BU URBAN will participate in a day of mourning and reflection for #ShutDownSTEM #ShutDownAcademia #Strike4BlackLives. Instead of business as usual, we will focus on advancing our program’s plan of action to eradicate racism in academia and society at large (see https://www.shutdownstem.com/ for more). Operationally, this means that our Program... More
Our Statement of Partnership and Solidarity, June 1st, 2020
June 1, 2020 Breathing is fundamental. Whether it is a knee on the back of your neck, decades of air pollution in your neighborhood, or a contagious respiratory virus run amok in your city, at the end of the day, the adverse effects are the same. You can’t breathe. It is no... More
BU URBAN Summer 2020 Research and Travel* Awards
*Due to COVID-19, we expect that most conferences and meetings will be online this summer and into the fall. Regardless, we encourage trainees to apply for funds to participate in gatherings of interest (registration fees, etc.), whether or not travel will be involved. We are excited to announce a funding opportunity... More
Accelerating Climate Solutions: A Science Communication Workshop – April 1, 2020
On April 1, 2020, BU URBAN partnered with Sarah Finnie Robinson, a Senior Fellow at the BU Institute of Sustainable Energy and Founding Director of the 51% Percent Project to offer a Science Communication Workshop titled, "Accelerating Climate Solutions." Information about the event can be found here, along with the pre-workshop materials and instructions. In total, More
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
Announcing the Spring 2020 Calendar!
To visit our calendar page, click here. For the downloadable pdf, click here.
BU URBAN Travel and Research Funds (Spring 2020)
We’re excited to announce a funding opportunity for all BU URBAN Trainees that supports research or conference travel for presenters. Each award is made in support of Ph.D. research in interdisciplinary research topics that span both Biogeoscience and Environmental Health in urban systems or for trainees who will travel to a meeting or conference to present their work within the year. The application deadline is February 19, 2020 at 5 pm. Please send your proposal and CV as... More
URBAN Program featured in BU Today!
Our students are making an impact! #innovation https://t.co/LhDWcEOdSM@BU_Tweets @busphEH @BUbiogeo— BU Urban Biogeoscience & Environmental Health (@bu_urban) September 24, 2019