Kipruto Kirwa
Urban H Interests: Heat, Health, Housing Professor Kipruto Kirwa is an environmental epidemiologist who applies techniques from environmental health, epidemiology, and statistical modeling to understand better how environmental factors affect human health, and how those effects can be mitigated. His research seeks to improve the quantification of air pollutant exposures, identify population groups most at risk for […]
Catherine M. Klapperich, Ph. D.
Dr. Catherine Klapperich is Professor of Biomedical Engineering. She is the Scientific Director of the DAMP Lab at BU. She was the Founding Director of the BU Precision Diagnostics Center, and currently serves as its Associate Director. Professor Klapperich holds appointments in the Division of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. […]
Maggie Kormann
Read more about Maggie’s experience as the Summer 2022 MORRE Fellow Maggie Kormann is originally from New Jersey, and she studied Political Science and Psychology with a minor in Public Policy in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). Maggie has been interested in issues of social justice and public policy since she was a […]
Kimberly Landaverde Guillen
Kimberly (she/her) is a fourth-year student at the College of Arts & Sciences, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Political Science. With aspirations in law and policymaking, she is enthusiastic about supporting the IOC’s ongoing research into the effects of gentrification on communities within the Greater Boston area. A native of East Boston—a […]
Kevin Lane
Urban H Interests: Heat, Health, Housing Dr. Lane’s research focuses on air pollution, the built environment, urbanization, and the impacts of climate change on health in local, national, and international settings. His expertise in big-data and spatial research has led to developing novel methods integrating geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing data and time-activity algorithms […]
Molly Lawrence
Molly Lawrence, a 2015 Masters in Public Health graduate from the BU School of Public Health, is serving as the IOC’s annual Boston Summer Fellow. Working with City of Boston Mayor Martin Walsh‘s Office of New Urban Mechanics, Lawrence focused on civic innovation and improving city services.
Loretta Lees
Professor Loretta Lees is the Director of the Initiative on Cities and a Professor of Sociology at Boston University. An urban geographer committed to justice, Professor Lees is internationally known for her research on gentrification and urban regeneration, global urbanism, urban policy, urban public space, architecture, and urban social theory. The author of multiple books, […]
Chenyue Lei
Chenyue is a PhD candidate in the Economics department. Her research interests lie in the broad areas of macroeconomics, with a focus on dynamism, productivity and growth. Her recent work studies the survival of indebted zombie firms and credit misallocation in Europe during the sovereign debt crisis. Currently, she is exploring how various credit policies would […]
Jessica Leibler
Jessica Leilber’s research focuses on environmental exposures experienced by disadvantaged populations in the U.S., including agricultural workers and the homeless. Her work has two central themes: environmental transmission of pathogens through food systems, and environmental exposures experienced by the urban poor in the U.S. Leibler is currently leading a study of antibiotic resistant bacterial carriage […]
Dan Lesser
Read more about Dan’s experience as the 2016 MONUM Summer Fellow Dan Lesser graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor’s Degree in American Government and Politics. He went on to pursue a Master of Business Administration at Boston University Questrom School of Business, where he graduated with high honors. Since his internship at the Mayor’s […]