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GMS has an exciting lecture series line-up for the fall, organized in collaboration with partner departments. Check out the GMS events page for more details.

GMS DE student Isabella Montini (Political Science) has won a dissertation award from survey firm Besample, enabling her to conduct a 3000 household survey in Brazil for her dissertation on claims-making by favela residents under criminal governance. Montini’s project was chosen from among 25 semi-finalists, each of whom had won pilot grants from Besample.

Professor Alison Post received the 2026 Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award at UC Berkeley. The award is in recognition of her outstanding commitment to helping UC Berkeley graduate students to succeed academically, professionally, and personally, and even more so in these challenging times.

Professor You-tien Hsing has published her newest book, Conserving China’s Northwest Frontier: Nature, Culture, and Future (Oxford University Press).

Flavia Leite will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as part of the 2026—27 Pollman Fellowship in Real Estate and Urban Development. Pranav Kuttaiah will start as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in Fall 2026, and transition…

GMS is pleased to announce that these students have received Summer Research Grants for 2026.

Congratulations to these students who will soon be graduating and receiving their GMS DE degrees.

GMS students Tahir de Noronha and Emma Goh, together with Aaditee K. Shankar (PhD Student in City and Regional Planning), are organizing a graduate conference, “Planning Beyond the State,” to be held on 2–3 May 2026. The conference convenes three panels—Planning Beyond Boundaries, Planning Outside of Government, and Planning and the Technopolitics of ‘Asian’ Infrastructures.…