Skip site navigation
University of Maryland Division of Research
Who We Are Capabilities Partnerships Resources News
Analytical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Service & Research Center Biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility Biosciences Cores: Genomics, Imaging, and Flow Cytometry BioWorkshop Brain & Behavior Institute - Advanced Genomic Technologies Core CALCE Test Services and Failure Analysis Laboratory Center For Innovative Biomedical Resources (CIBR) Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Daikin Energy Innovation Lab DLAR Imaging Core Exposome Small Molecule Core Facility Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel Herschel S. Horowitz Center for Health Literacy KIT-Maryland MEG Lab Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute (MFRI) Maryland NanoCenter Maryland Neuroimaging Center Mass Spectrometry Facility Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility (NBRF) Surface Analysis Center The Laboratory for Biological Ultrastructure The University of Maryland Center for Health Equity The University of Maryland Prevention Research Center X-ray Crystallographic Center (XCC)
Africa Through Language and Area Studies (ATLAS) Anti-Black Racism Initiative Effective and Equitable Weather Forecasting in a Changing Climate with Machine Learning Encuentros: A University-Community Partnership to Mitigate the Mental Health Crisis for Latino Immigrant Youth Fostering Inclusivity through Technology (FIT) Helping Our Bodies Clear Respiratory Infections The Maryland Safe Drinking WATER Study Modeling the Evolution of Avian Influenza Viruses Music Education for All Through Personalized AI and Digital Humanities Observing Wildfires Through UAVs and Fire Imaging Technologies Programmable Design of Sustainable, All-Natural Plastic Substitutes Racial and Social Justice Research-Practice Partnership Collaborative Remediation of Methane, Water, and Heat Waste Seizing Opportunities: Social Capital, Businesses, and Communities Using Machine Learning to Measure and Improve Equity in K-12 Mathematics Classrooms Water Emergency Team
Accurate, Equitable, and Transparent Genetic Ancestry Inference Advancing Environmental Justice By Evaluating Climate-Ready Urban Street Trees In Historically Redlined Neighborhoods AFTER: A Hospital Violence Intervention Program For Youth Victims of Gunshot Injury An Innovative Intervention to Help Asian American Families Cope with Racism and Mental Health Difficulties Bridging the Gaps in Satellite Observations of Earth Systems to Support Climate Monitoring and Prediction Climate Change and Political Conflict Climate Mitigation and Land-Use Digital Equity Mapping Research and Training Program Establishing a Role for Psilocybin in Frontal Lobe Function Fetal Mammary Stem Cell Programming and Hormone Dysfunction Forecasting Acute Malnutrition for Anticipatory Action Genetic and Lifestyle Risk Factors of Accelerated Brain Aging in Severe Mental Illness How Does Statistical Learning Interact with Socioeconomic Status to Shape Literacy Development? Human Rights Politics and Policies: Lessons from Latin America Increasing Sustainability, Accessibility, and Equity in Urban Mobility with A Self-driving E-Scooter Increasing Participation of Minorities and Women In STEM Through Sports Performance Analytics Research Market Design, Energy Storage, and Interconnection to the U.S. Power Grid On-board Energy Harvesting for Long-endurance Earth Observation UAVs Promoting Youth Mental Wellbeing in Rural Honduras by Engaging Teachers as Catalysts Relating Attitudes on Democracy to Attitudes on Race and Ethnicity An Innovative Approach to Remove Emerging Organic Contaminants from the Environment Role of Mitochondria Dynamics in Opioid Addiction Towards an Early Warning System for Increased Probability of Community Infection by SARS-Cov-2 Variants Understanding the Impact of Wind on Fire Dynamics in Mass-Timber Compartment Visualizing Urban Flooding Due To Climate Change
Search
Who We Are Capabilities Partnerships Resources News

UMD’s Urban Equity Collaborative Provides Training, Workshops, and Policy Action for Strengthening Community-based Institutions

September 30, 2024

The University of Maryland’s Urban Equity Collaborative (UEC) recently celebrated the completion of its first year of work. Supported by a Grand Challenges Grant and co-led by Dr. Willow Lung-Amam (School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation),  Dr. Nancy Raquel Mirabal (College of Arts and Humanities), and Dr. Devon Payne-Sturges (School of Public Health), the UEC is committed to strengthening community-based institutions and creating solutions for urban inequity through community-based research and policy action. 

In its first year, the UEC launched the Community Fellows program, a funded one-semester fellowship that collaborates with community activists and researchers to develop solutions for urban displacement. The 2024 UEC Community Fellows tackled immigrant rights advocacy, small business support, and tenant advocacy. In addition, the UEC organized five community talks and workshops and two training sessions on interdisciplinary/trans-disciplinary/multidisciplinary research to support urban equality. The workshops fostered interdisciplinary discussions engaging not only academics, but community members and practitioners working on the ground. 

The UEC is entering the 2024-2025 academic year with a refined focus on the climate crisis and community dispossession and displacement. This lens offers a unique opportunity to examine the areas in which the multiple compounding inequalities within the foci of immigrant rights, quality affordable housing, and small business displacement, intersect.

The UEC is hosting a virtual workshop on Wednesday November 13, 2024 from 12:00-2:00pm with Kelly Leilani Main, the Executive Director and Founder of Buy-In Community Planning, a national 501c3 organization providing equitable and accessible voluntary relocation services for communities on the frontlines of irreversible climate impacts. 

External partners and UMD community members are invited to subscribe to the UEC newsletter to learn more about upcoming workshops and research updates.

For more information, visit: https://urbanequitycollab.org/