Economic Development Division Graduate ScholarshipDeadline: February 18, 2010 Master's level students from PAB-accredited planning departments across the U.S. may apply. The $1,000 scholarship is awarded on the basis of a letter of recommendation from a full-time faculty member and an original paper or work having to do with a substantive and relevant topic related to economic development and planning. We prefer an article length or shorter paper submitted (not a thesis, although a shorter paper developed from the thesis is acceptable) of 2,000 to 2,500 words. The application should be addressed to: John Provo, Ph.D. The scholarship will be presented at the APA National Planning Conference in New Orleans in April 2010, and the paper will be published in EDD’s News & Views. 2009The 2009 EDD Scholarship award of $1,000 went to Lingwen Zheng for her paper entitled "Trapped in the Race to the Bottom: Who is Using Business Incentives Now?" This paper appears in the spring 2009 edition of News & Views. Honorable mentions went to Ann Thompson for "Alexandria's Associations: Spontaneous Grouping or Economic Cluster?" and Jessica Sheldon for "Going Uptown in Downtown Oakland: Market Rate Housing as an Economic Development Tool." | ||
