APA Economic Development Division Travel Scholarship
Submission deadline January 25
Applications are invited from Master's level students enrolled in PAB-accredited planning programs across the US, as well as individuals who have graduated from those programs in the last year. The $1,000 travel scholarship is awarded on the basis of a letter of recommendation from a faculty member and an original student paper or work. The original student submission should be 2,000 to 2,500 words and speak to practitioners about a substantive topic related to economic development and planning in the US. The scholarship will be presented at APA’s National Planning Conference in Chicago , April 13-17, 2013. The paper will also be published on the Economic Development Division website and distributed electronically to division members.
All submissions and inquiries should be directed to John Provo, Director Office of Economic Development, Virginia Tech, via email jprovo@vt.edu.
2012 Scholarship Winners
The 2012 Economic Development Division Graduate scholarship winners are Seema Adina, Kira Intrator, and Lindsay Reul of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for their joint paper "Wealth Creation Through Sustainable Forestry: Generating Wealth Creation Models in the Appalachian Wood Products Industry."
Their paper combines analysis of value chain and supply chain to identify strategies that would capture environmental and economic benefits for communities. The selection committee, consisting of David Bieri (Michigan), Shari Garmise (Association of Land Grant and Public Universities), Shana Johnson (Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning), John Provo (Virginia Tech), and Greg Schrock (Portland State), appreciated their innovative approach. Among all the papers it stood out as an original synthesis of ideas in an accessible form for practitioners.