Urban Planning & Design Fellowships, Prizes, & Travel Programs
GSD-wide FEllowships, Awards & Prizes
Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design
Awarded annually by the GSD in recognition of a multi-family housing design that incorporates the most interesting ideas and/or innovations that may lead to socially oriented, improved living environments. The prize may be awarded for a design executed by a single student or by several students working in collaboration in a regular GSD core or option studio, thesis, open projects or independent study course completed during the award year.
Application required.
Digital Design Prize
Awarded annually by the GSD to a graduating student who has demonstrated the most creative and rigorous use of computation in relation to the design professions.
Application required.
Druker Traveling Fellowship
Awarded annually by the UPD Department to a GSD student who demonstrates excellence in the design of urban environments through relevant studio and coursework. The fellowship provides the recipient with the opportunity for extensive, research-based travel in the US and abroad to enrich their design education and professional development.
Application required.
GSD-Courances Design Residency Program
Awarded annually by the LA Department to two GSD students who have the strongest project proposals. The residency program provides fundings for a six-week residency, where recipients live and work in the certified organic farm, gardens, and park at the Château de Courances, a sixteenth-century estate located in the Île-de-France, fifty kilometers south of Paris.
Application requried.
Irving Innovation Fellowship
The Irving Innovation Fellowship offers students graduating with GSD master’s degrees an opportunity to extend their research and discovery in design, architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture and continue contributing to the GSD’s pedagogy and dialogue.
Application required.
Paul M. Heffernan International Travel Award
The Paul M. Heffernan International Travel Award funds GSD students who want to travel internationally to focus on professional development related to their academic pursuits.
Application required.
JCHS Best Paper on Housing Prize
Awarded annually by the Joint Center for Housing Studies to honor exemplary graduate student work on housing, community development, or related urban issues.
Student papers are nominated by faculty members and selected by the Joint Center.
Penny White Project Fund
The Penny White Project Fund annually awards up to $50,000 in project funding for student-submitted research proposals. The call is open to all graduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students at the GSD.
Application required.
Peter Rice Prize
The Peter Rice Prize is awarded annually by the GSD to honor students of exceptional promise in the school’s architecture and advanced degree programs who have proven their competence and innovation in advancing architecture and structural engineering.
Application required.
Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize
The Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize is awarded annually to an individual or team whose project, completed as part of their GSD curriculum, best demonstrates feasibility in design and construction and fulfills market and user needs.
Application required.
Program-specific awards & Prizes
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Awarded annually by nomination and selection by faculty committee to one graduating student in the urban planning program in recognition of their outstanding attainment in the study of planning. The American Planning Association bestows the award to each nominee from each of its PAB-accredited planning programs.
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Awarded annually to graduating students in the Department of Urban Planning and Design who have achieved the highest cumulative academic record regardless of financial need in their respective programs.
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Awarded annually to graduating Master in Urban Planning students who have demonstrated exceptional ability in urban planning projects, including research and design studios throughout their course of study. Application Required.
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Awarded annually to graduating MAUD/MLAUD students who have demonstrated exceptional design ability throughout their course of study in the program. Application Required.
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Awarded annually to graduating students in the Department of Urban Planning and Design who have demonstrated the highest standards of leadership, excellence in academic studies, and promise of achievement in their respective fields.
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Awarded to graduating students who have presented exemplary thesis work in their respective programs.
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Awarded annually to a graduating student from any degree program, who has exhibited superior academic achievement and leadership in real estate studies.
external scholarships, Awards & Prizes
Charles Abrams Scholarship
The American Planning Association’s Charles Abrams Scholarship is awarded annually to one graduate student in a planning program at Columbia University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the New School for Social Research, or the University of Pennsylvania. Students are nominated by faculty at the end of their first year of study.
Students are nominated and invited to apply by the department.
Don Schön Award
The Association of Collegiate Schools in Planning awards the Donald Schön Award Excellence in Learning from Practice annually to recognize a paper written for a graduate course in planning, a master’s thesis, or a research report which shows excellence in the writer’s personal and/or professional learning from practice and in the analysis of that learning. The award carries a cash grant of $1000 USD provided by the ACSP with an invitation to present their award-winning paper at the ACSP Annual Conference.
Papers are nominated and selected by faculty committee. Award recipients are selected by ACSP.
Ed McClure Award
The Association of Collegiate Schools in Planning awards the Ed McClure Award for Best Master’s Paper annually to recognize superior scholarship in a paper prepared by a master’s student. Submissions may address any topic of investigation generated in the course of pursuing a master’s degree in urban/city/ community/ town/ regional planning. The award carries a cash grant of $1000 USD provided by the ACSP with an invitation to present their award-winning paper at the ACSP Annual Conference.
Papers are nominated and selected by faculty committee. Award recipients are selected by ACSP.
Marsha Ritzdorf Award
The Association of Collegiate Schools in Planning awards the Marsha Ritzdorf Award or the Best Student Work on Diversity, Social Justice and the Role of Women in Planning annually to recognize superior scholarship reflecting concern with making communities better for women, people of color and/or the disadvantaged. The award carries a cash grant of $1000 USD provided by the ACSP with an invitation to present their award-winning paper at the ACSP Annual Conference.
Papers are nominated and selected by faculty committee. Award recipients are selected by ACSP.
Paul Katz/KPF Fellowship
The Paul Katz/KPF Fellowship is a competitive award established and administered by the KPF Foundation in honor of the life and work of former KPF President Paul Katz. Two awards of US$25,000 are given each year to assist internationally-focused students in traveling and studying issues of global urbanism.
Final year MArch and MAUD students are selected by committee to apply. Recipients of the fellowship are selected bu KPF.
TPD Student Paper Competition
The American Planning Association’s Transportation Planning Division (TPD) awards the prize annually to recognize outstanding student papers on current transportation planning or policy issues. The award carries a cash prize for first, second, and third place.
Papers are nominated and selected by faculty committee. The award recipient is selected by APA-TPD.
Public Fellowships and Awards
Pollman Fellowship in Real Estate and Urban Development
The Pollman Fellowship was established in 2002 through a gift from Harold A. Pollman and is awarded by the Department of Urban Planning and Design. The fellowship is awarded annually to an outstanding postdoctoral graduate in real estate, urban planning, and development who spends one year in residence at the GSD as a visiting scholar.
Applicants in the fields of economic development, political economy, urban economics, and other areas in urban planning related to real estate and urban development are also encouraged to apply.
Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize was established in 1986 on the occasion of Harvard University’s 350th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the Graduate School of Design. The prize recognizes exemplary urban design projects realized anywhere in the world within the past ten years.
Nominations for the prize are received from the GSD’s extensive network of academics and urban design professionals.
