Penn Urban Studies

URBS ‘26.

Home is always with us, URBIES. We love you. Go fly. .hatch .rimple .katt002 .sayed._ .chew

So proud of our graduation award winners!

Eric Schneider Award - .hatch

Norm Glickman Award -

Social Justice in the City Award - and DJ Graves

URBS Contribution Award - .rimple

The weather was perfect for our tour of the new Connector and Cable Bridges, led by Bob Thomas, the godfather of the planning for this extension. 16 alums and faculty gathered to reconnect, pun intended, as we enjoyed stories of the trail and SW Philadelphia history as they related to land use, the decline of the industrial core, fishermen, and the evolution of the vision to bring total continuity trail-wise from Valley Forge to . Thank you to Bob and our whole UrBS community for showing up and out for graduation weekend! Next, our seniors graduate tomorrow!

Many apologies! The last post had an error! Congrats to our URBS Phi Beta Kappa! .chew .edman

Congratulations, Griffin Pitt! A Thouron Prize winner who will be headed to Oxford next year for a masters in Water Management and Policy! Incredible!

Congratulations, .sayed._ for her winning the Bodek Thesis Award in the College!

We are thrilled to announce our 2026-2027 Gordon Fellows in Public Service and Hassenfeld Summer Research Fellows. Check out the cities and organizations all over the world that they will be contributing and doing research. A continued thank you to the Gordon and Hassenfeld Families for making these experiences possible for our students. .cayo .clark__ .sayed._ .jpg

Getting excited for graduation Part II!

What a crew. Getting excited for graduation Part I! .rimple .hatch .sayed._ .l.simon