Competitive Awards | Nominative Awards

Department of City and Regional Planning prizes and awards inquiries:

Graduate
DCRP Graduate Office
226 Wurster Hall
(510) 643-9440
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Undergraduate
CED Office of Undergraduate Advising
250 Wurster Hall
(510) 642-4943
www.ced.berkeley.edu/advising/

Competitive Awards

Graduate and Undergraduate

• Eisner Prize in City & Regional Planning

Award Amount $2,000 | Deadline 5 p.m., March 2 | Submittal Info


The Eisner Prizes in the Creative Arts are the most distinguished awards in five departments of UC Berkeley: English, Music, Art, Dramatic Art, and Environmental Design. The award for City and Regional Planning will be made for outstanding creative achievement in urban design. The award is open to all graduate students in the Master of City Planning program and the undergraduate urban studies major.

Graduate

• Ralph Giguiello Fellowship
   
• Yvonne Koshland Fellowship
   
• Joan Lamphier Popp Fellowship
   

Undergraduate

• Chung Leadership Prize

Award Amount $1,000

Established through a recent gift by the Chung family, this prize is given each year to an urban studies sophomore or junior in order to support a public service project or internship that he or she will undertake during the summer. Upon completion of the public service, the recipient is expected to write a professional report about the experience and present it in a public forum. The prize is administered by the urban studies committee and is given by nomination only.

• Yuen Endowed Scholarship
   

Nominative Awards

Graduate

• CED Graduate Student Fellowship
   
• Chung Fellowship in City & Regional Planning
   
• Erskine City Planning Fellowship
   
• Friesen Prize for Teaching Excellence
   
• Gadsby-Trudgett Fellowship
   
• Kent Memorial Fellowship
   
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

This award is given to the student who receives the highest numerical ranking on the GSI student evaluations. The department Student Affairs Officer calculates numerical ranking and the winner is ratified by the Prizes and Awards Committee. The award is announced in late March.

• Perloff Memorial Fellowship
   
• Teitz Fellowship
   

Undergraduate

• Departmental Citation
   
• Friesen Prize for Academic Achievement

Award Amount $500

Established through a gift by the Friesen family, this prize is given to the graduating urban studies student with the highest overall grade-point average. The prize is administered by the urban studies committee and is given by nomination only.

• Friesen Prize for Best Paper in Urban Studies

Award Amount $500

Established through a gift by the Friesen family, this $500 prize is given each year to the best research, theory, or policy and planning analysis paper completed in an urban studies course. Paper submissions must be nominated by urban studies faculty (no more than three submissions per faculty member). All undergraduate students in all majors currently enrolled at UC Berkeley are eligible for this prize. Papers are evaluated in a blind review process by the urban studies committee.