{"id":6396,"date":"2025-04-28T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:42:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:42:30","slug":"urban-annual-symposium-spring-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/2025\/04\/28\/urban-annual-symposium-spring-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"URBAN Annual Symposium &#8211; Spring 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, for the BU URBAN Annual Symposium.\u00a0 The event will be from 1:00 to 4:00pm, in room CDS 1101 at 665 Commonwealth Ave.<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSctzNYeyuNnKSEyK5Uqwz99Oq1ui3uJdzT7EEBzmDi62iTadQ\/viewform?usp=header\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s symposium is being planned and led primarily by our graduate students and will highlight their research and experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The event will feature student research and internship talks, with topics ranging from scalable ecosystem modeling to psychiatric emergency service utilization during extreme heat events; as well as a student internship panel, and an alumni career panel.\u00a0 There will even be a photo contest!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Contest Guidelines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We would like to invite all URBAN students, faculty, and staff to submit an original photo (that <u>you<\/u> took) to be considered in our URBAN Annual Symposium Photo Contest.\u00a0 The only stipulation is that it is an original photo and not AI generated.\u00a0 It can be related to your research or not!\u00a0 It can be urban or environmental or not!\u00a0 We want to display the creativity of our community and hopefully share some beautiful images during the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voting for the photo contest will take place at the URBAN Annual Symposium on May 14, 2025, from 1-4pm (665 Commonwealth Ave, 1101), and the winner will be announced before the event is over (there will be a prize!).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please submit photos titled, \u201c<strong>2025URBANPhotoContest_LastName-FirstName<\/strong>\u201d to <a href=\"mailto:urban@bu.edu\">urban@bu.edu<\/a> <strong>by May 1, 2025<\/strong>, to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tentative Agenda:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1:00pm &#8211; Welcome<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1:10pm &#8211; URBAN Trainee Research Talks<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flannery Black-Ingersoll &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Climate resilience adaptation and psychiatric emergency services utilization during extreme heat in Boston, MA: a difference-in-differences analysis<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emerson Conrad-Rooney &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tree Growth at the Climate Change Across Seasons Experiment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Erin Polka &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pathways to Energy Transitions: Modeling Patterns of Residential Heating Consumption in Massachusetts<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Xiaofei Qin &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developing an equitable framework for heat warning systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrew Roberts &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Addressing challenges in scalable ecosystem modeling<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2:00pm &#8211; URBAN Internship Panel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2:30pm &#8211; Break &amp; Mingling<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2:40pm &#8211; Photo Contest Display and Voting<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2:45pm &#8211; URBAN Trainee Lightning Talks<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grace Betts &#8211; Environmental Justice Impacts of Cancelling Offshore Wind<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sheida Hooshmandi &#8211; Climate Aid<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zhenpeng Zuo &#8211; Groundwork Data Internship<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3:05pm &#8211; Announce Photo Contest Winner!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3:10pm &#8211; Alumni Panel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3:55pm &#8211; Wrap Up\/Closing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2025\/04\/URBAN-Spring-Symposium-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"792\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6397 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2025\/04\/URBAN-Spring-Symposium-2025.jpg 612w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2025\/04\/URBAN-Spring-Symposium-2025-491x636.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, for the BU URBAN Annual Symposium.\u00a0 The event will be from 1:00 to 4:00pm, in room CDS 1101 at 665 Commonwealth Ave. This year\u2019s symposium is being planned and led primarily by our graduate students and will highlight their research and experiences. 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