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GMS Core Faculty member Alison Post wins graduate mentoring award
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.
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You-tien Hsing publishes new book!
Professor You-tien Hsing has published her newest book, Conserving China’s Northwest Frontier: Nature, Culture, and Future (Oxford University Press).
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Congrats to GMS graduating students, Flavia Leite and Pranav Kuttaiah
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…
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2026 Summer Research Grants
GMS is pleased to announce that these students have received Summer Research Grants for 2026.
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GMS DE students graduating
Congratulations to these students who will soon be graduating and receiving their GMS DE degrees.
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Joseph Godlewski recognized
CUAA awards an Honorable Mention for the Leeds Prize to Joseph Godlewski (Architecture, Syracuse University, GMS DE 2015) for his book, The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements.
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Apply for GMS “Planning Beyond the State” Graduate student conference!
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.…
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GMS DE student Taesoo Song accepts faculty position at Virginia Tech
Taesoo Song, a GMS DE student and doctoral student in City & Regional Planning, will be joining the faculty of Virginia Tech (Arlington campus) next year as an Assistant Professor in the Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Program. Congratulations, Taesoo!
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GMS Faculty Affiliate Yan Long wins Joseph Levinson Book prize from the Association for Asian Studies.
GMS Faculty Affiliate Yan Long (Sociology) has won the Joseph Levinson Book prize (China, post-1900) for her recently-published book Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China.