Awards and Fellowships
Recent awards and fellowships received by current DDes students since entering the program. Listed alphabetically by year:
Non-Harvard-sponsored
2009-2010 :
Jawn Tze-hin Lim was the inaugural recipient of the doctoral studies scholarship from the DesignSingapore Council for the academic years of 2009-2012
Suzanne Lanyi Charles was awarded a $25,000 Doctoral Dissertation Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
2008-2009 :
Jock Herron was awarded a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from The Bok Center, based on outstanding student evalutions.
Shelagh McCartney won an IFMA Foundation Scholarship.
Shelagh McCartney was named a Cashin Scholar by FIABCI (The International Real Estate Federation).
Teri Rueb received an Prix Ars Electronica 2008 Award of Distinction for her project "Core Sample".
2007-2008 :
Miwa Matsuo received a student travel scholarship at ACSP/AESOP joint conference.
Shelagh McCartney received a Completion Grant and was named a Canada Fellow from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs – Canada Program.
Antonio Petrov received a grant to publish his work on design methodologies from CCUR utilization research, College of Design, and the department of Architecture, Iowa State University.
Harvard-sponsored
2008-2009 :
Suzanne Lanyi Charles with principal-investigator Dr. Nicolas Oreskovic and co-investigator Dr. Moshe Bar were awarded a Harvard Catalyst Pilot Grant to study the "Use of Functional Neuroimaging to Assess Effects of Viewing the Built Environment." The project is a cross-disciplinary research project involving the Harvard Medical School/MGH and the Graduate School of Design.
Wanda Liebermann received a Penny White award at the GSD.
Taro Narahara has won the Peter Rice Prize at the GSD.
Zenovia Toloudi receivd Gerondelis Scholarship for Graduate Studies at Harvard.
Aylin Brigitte Yildirim receives a Penny White Award at the GSD.
2007-2008 :
Suzanne Lanyi Charles became a John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.
Suzanne Lanyi Charles was awarded a dissertation research grant by the Harvard University Real Estate Academic Initiative.
Miwa Matsuo received a Taubman Rappaport Research Award from Taubman Center at Harvard University.
Miwa Matsuo received a Pollman Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard University.
Miwa Matsuo received a Howard T. Fisher Prize for Geographic Information Science from Harvard University in June, 2008.
Shelagh McCartney received a research grant from the Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard University.
Stephen Ramos was named a 2008-2009 Research Fellow with the Dubai Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard´s John F. Kennedy School of Government.