Stevens Graduate Fellowship
The Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science was established in 1998 in memory of Dr. Benjamin H. Stevens (1929-1997), an intellectual leader whose selfless devotion to graduate students as teacher, advisor, mentor and friend continues to have a profound impact on the field of Regional Science. Graduate students enrolled in Ph.D. programs in North America are eligible to compete for the Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in support of their thesis research in Regional Science. Faculty at all North American Ph.D. programs are asked to encourage their best students to apply for the Thirteenth Stevens Graduate Fellowship, which will support the winning student’s thesis research in the field of Regional Science with a fellowship of $30,000 for the 2012-2013 year. The application deadline is February 15, 2013. Full submission guidelines may be found at http://www.narsc.org/newsite/?page_id=444
The 2012-13 Stevens Fellowship competition was judged by a Selection Committee composed of: Lawrence Brown, Geography, Ohio State University, chair; Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Economics, Brown University; Tony Grubesic, Information Science and Technology, Drexel University; Antonio Páez, Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University; and Cynthia Rogers, Economics, University of Oklahoma.
Ran Wei, a Ph.D. student in Geography at Arizona State University, was selected as the winner of the Thirteenth Annual Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science. The Fellowship will provide one-year stipend of $30,000 to support Wei in her research entitled, “Spatial Analytical Methods to Support the Evaluation of Sex Offender Residency Laws.” Wei’s research seeks to identify and develop spatial analytical methods, and demonstrate them in a case study for better understanding of sex offender residency issues. Spatial analytical approaches may be generally classified as exploratory spatial data analysis methods, confirmatory methods and spatial optimization; Wei plans to concentrate on exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial optimization techniques. The unifying theme of her research is the application, development and extension of regional science methods in support of the analysis of legislation, policy and laws. Her research is supervised by Professor Alan Murray of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning.
The Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science has also been awarded to the following students:
2000 Michael J. Greenwald (University of California, Irvine; Marlon Boarnet, advisor)
2001 Rachel Franklin (University of Arizona; Brigitte Waldorf, advisor)
2002 Jung Won Son (University of California-Los Angeles; Leobardo Estrada, advisor)
2003 Alison Davis Reum (North Carolina State University; V. Kerry Smith, advisor)
2004 Nicholas Nagle (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara; Stuart H. Sweeney, advisor)
2005 Xiaokun Wang (University of Texas at Austin; Kara Kockelman, advisor)
2006 Joshua Drucker (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Harvey Goldstein and Edward Feser, advisors)
2007 Alvin Murphy (Duke University; Patrick Bayer, advisor)
2008 Paavo Monkkonen (University of California, Berkeley; David E. Dowall, advisor)
2009 Elizabeth Mack (Indiana University; Tony H. Grubesic, advisor)
2010 Adam Storeygard (Brown University; J. Vernon Henderson, advisor)
2011 Peter Richards (Michigan State University; Robert Walker, advisor)
The Stevens Fellowship Committee administrates the Stevens Fellowship on behalf of the North American Regional Science Council; its members are: Ronald Miller, Chair; David Boyce, Secretary; Michael Lahr, Treasurer; Janet Kohlhase; and Neil Reid, Executive Director, NARSC. Fundraising in support of the Stevens Fellowship began in 1998, and is ongoing. In recent years, donations were also received in memory of two former colleagues of Benjamin Stevens at the University of Pennsylvania, Thomas Reiner (1931-2007) and Walter Isard (1919-2010). Donations may be sent to: The Stevens Fellowship Fund, First Financial Bank, 1205 S. Neil Street, Champaign, IL 61820 USA. Checks should be drawn to The Stevens Fellowship Fund. Donations may be made online at http://www.narsc.org/newsite/donations2.php. If the donor desires, a donation made in memory of an individual will be acknowledged on this web page.
Donations in memory of Benjamin Stevens were received from the following individuals:
| Anonymous
Luc Anselin Marcus Berliant William Beyers Peter Blair Roger Bolton David Boyce Gerald Carrothers Manas and Pradipta Chatterji Benjamin Chinitz† Leslie Curry† Stan Czamanski Michael Dacey† Nazir and Nasreen Dossani Masahisa Fujita Janet and Shelby Gerking Arthur Getis |
Norman Glickman
Reginald Golledge† Harvey Goldstein Peter Gordon Daniel Griffith J. W. Harrington Britton† and Ruth Harris Walter Isard† Andrew Isserman† Laveen Kanal Maureen Kilkenny Hugh and Linda† Knox Robert Kuenne† Yoshi and Glenn Kumekawa William Latham Martin Meyerson† William Miernyk† |
Ronald Miller
Gordon Mulligan Peter Nijkamp Anna Nagurney Charles Perry† David Plane Karen R. Polenske Thomas Reiner† Adam Rose Noboru Sakashita† Tony Smith Michael Teitz Shirley Weiss† Mike† and Penny Winton Yimin and Fengxiao Zhuang Members of the Stevens Family |
Donations in memory of Benjamin Stevens were received from the following organizations:
| Blackwell Publishers | Freddie Mac Foundation | Quaker Hill Foundation |
Donations in memory of Thomas Reiner were received from the following individuals:
| Anonymous
Peter Blair David Boyce Manas and Pradipta Chatterji Peter Gordon |
Naoru Koizumi
Susan Viuker Lieberman Janice Madden Mark Menchik Ronald Miller |
Anthony Mumphrey
Eugene Smolensky John Tofflemire |
Donations in memory of Walter Isard were received from the following individuals:
| Anonymous
Luc Anselin Thomas Barringer Marcus Berliant Peter Blair David Boyce David Bramhall Manas and Pradipta Chatterji |
Al-Hassan Conteh
Leo Feller Shang-Hsing Hsieh Tschangho John and Moonja Park Kim Janet Kohlhase Janice Madden Mark Menchik |
Ronald Miller
Atsuyuki Okabe David Pines David Plane Michael Teitz Mark Wilson |
Donations were received from the following past recipients of the Stevens Fellowship:
| Joshua Drucker
Rachel Franklin |
Michael Greenwald
Jung Won Son |
Xiaokun Wang |