ABELL AWARD IN URBAN POLICY
The deadline for entry submissions to the 2010 Abell Award in Urban Policy competition is now past. We hope you will consider participating in next year’s competition, if eligible.
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 University 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
- Stevenson University
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.
