How High School Students Can Start Research and Shape Their Future

Join Professor Eric Heikkila of the USC Price School of Public Policy for an inspiring afternoon talk on how curiosity can lead to new ideas, research and future careers. Discover how asking questions today can spark discoveries tomorrow, followed by an interview by Liyang Zhuang, Founder of Voices of Future and a high school student at Sacred Heart Schools. The dialogue will bring a student perspective to the conversation.

Free event for all: Join us and explore your passions and ask questions on how to conduct research as a high school student.

Even middle schoolers or 6th graders are warmly welcome, if you’re eager to learn! Join us to explore your passions and discover your future.

Professor Heikkila's research work is both quantitative and qualitative in nature, and his scholarly writings address a wide range of topics on urban development and public policy. His books include The Economics of Planning (CUPR Press, 2000) and China from a U.S. Policy Perspective (forthcoming). He has applied economic & spatial analysis, fuzzy sets, agent based modeling and a variety of statistical techniques to study urban structure. Other aspects of his work include a more qualitative, policy oriented approach to urban development issues, especially in the context of the Asia Pacific region.