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 policy problem facing the City of Baltimore and feasible solutions. The Selection Committee decides on the allocation of the $5,000 award.
All full-time students from the following schools are eligible to enter:
- Coppin State University
- Goucher College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Loyola University Maryland
- McDaniel College
- Morgan State University
- College of Notre Dame in Maryland
- Towson University
- University of Baltimore
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
- UMBC
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Stevenson University
The 2010 competition yielded two first-place winners: Julia O'Connor (JHU, Bloomberg School of Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Social Work MPH, MSW) for her paper, "Removing Firearms from Abusers Through Temporary Protection Orders: Baltimore City's Newest Policy," and Cailin McGough and Paul Messino (JHU, 2nd Year Masters in Public Policy Students) for their paper, "Maryland Arts and Entertinament Districts: A Process Evalution and Case Study of Baltimore." Both winning entries received a check for $2500.
Read the winning papers from prior years.
