Urban and Community  Studies is happy to announce that Professor Phil Birge-Libermand and UCS major, Maddie Chasse, have received one of this year’s 2021 SHARE Awards.

The Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Research Experience (SHARE) Awards are provided by the Office of Undergraduate Research to introduce students to research in their chosen field and help them develop skills they will need for further research projects.

The project Prof. Birge-Liberman and Maddie proposed will examine ways of redeveloping Keney Park to fulfill, in part, the goals of the Hartford 400 plan. Numerous reports and service learning projects have been completed by many UConn classes in the effort to restore particular portions of the park. However, these were completed in an ad-hoc manner and there has been no effort to organize or prioritize these plans. This project is an attempt to make sense of these documents and assess the feasibility of implementing these plans.

Congrats to Phil and Maddie!