IUR INTERNS AT WORK

Jamila T. Thompson:

“This is an opportune time for African American educational leaders, scholars and teachers within our local communities to engage in research and become apart of political agenda setting.”

Christina Walker:

"I approach life with the belief that I can accomplish anything I put my mind to. I have never let doubt undermine my success."

PILOT PROJECT BY CHARLOTTE ST. PIERRE RECEIVES APPROVAL

Learning Inc. is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to re-engage Baltimore City at-risk adolescents in the process of education and to provide them with academic and life skills so that they may grow into caring and responsible adults with economic opportunity. Learning Inc. works with the students who the schools have all but given up on and who have all but given up on school. Despite being 14 to 18 years old, they are often at read more

FUNDRAISING WORKSHOP

On Saturday, February 21, 2009, the Community Development Resource Center in the Institute for Urban Research held a one day fundraising workshop. The workshop which was targeted at representatives of community based organizations, private and other public organizations was aimed at helping participants to gain an edge in fundraising especially during this period of economic hardship.read more

WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW COULD KILL YOU

How to make your home safe in Baltimore City was the topic of a Community conference held by the Institute for Urban Research and the School of Community Health and Policy at Morgan State University on Saturday, November 22, 2008.

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND TRANSPORTATION

Morgan State University through the School of Engineering and the Institute For Urban Research has received Phase III funding for the development of an Environmental Justice Toolkit. The Phase III plan for funding assistance is to complete the development and dissemination of Volume II of the Environmental Justice in Transportation (EJT) Toolkit.