The Institute for Policy Studies invites applications for the 2004 Abell Foundation Award in Urban Policy. The $5,000 cash award is given annually to the Johns Hopkins student who writes the most compelling paper on a pressing problem facing the city of Baltimore. The winner will be selected by a panel of judges comprising opinion leaders from the Baltimore business and nonprofit communities and JHU faculty.

The contest is open to all full-time students in any degree-granting program of Johns Hopkins.

The deadline for submitting a paper is Jan. 16, 2004. For more information, including guidelines for submissions, contact Sandra Newman, IPS director, at sjn@jhu.edu or 410-516-4614 or go to www.jhu.edu/ips.

The award is sponsored by the Abell Foundation and IPS. The contest is intended to encourage fresh thinking about the challenges facing Baltimore and provide an incentive for promising students interested in urban problems to come to Baltimore and focus their talents on the city's problems, both during their Hopkins career and beyond.

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