ABELL AWARD IN URBAN POLICY
The Abell Award in Urban Policy is given annually to the students who author the most compelling papers on a pressing policy problem facing the City of Baltimore. First place prize is $4,000 and second place is $1,000.
All Full-time Students from the following schools are eligible to enter:
- Coppin State University
- Goucher College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Loyola College in Maryland
- Morgan State University
- College of Notre Dame in Maryland
- Towson University
- University of Baltimore
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
- UMBC
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Villa Julie College
The 2009 competition yielded two first-place winners: Natalie Draisin (JHU, B.A. in Public Health-Social Sciences expected 2010) for her paper, “A Lighter Future for Baltimore City: Using Schools in the Fight Against Childhood Obesity,” and Harvir Kaur (JHU, B.A. Political Science expected 2011) for her paper, “State of Emergency: Providing Oral Health Care Services to Low-Income and Medicaid Populations in Baltimore City.” Each student received a check for $2500.
Read the winning papers.
