Institute for Urban Research 20th Anniversary

April 25, 2025

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Penn Institute for Urban Research (IUR), President J. Larry Jameson joined IUR Co-Directors Genie Birch and Susan Wachter, along with members of the IUR Advisory Board, to recognize the 2025 recipients of the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize and Student Awards. The event highlighted IUR’s global impact, local engagement, and enduring commitment to interdisciplinary urban policy research, while honoring the laudable work of this year’s awardees, including Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize recipients: Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone; Patrick Harker, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; and Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia.

See also the Penn President Flickr Gallery.

Photographs by Melissa Kelly.