Master of Urban Planning Project Awards

Selected Recent Student State and National Planning and Academic Achievement Awards

The Master of Urban and Regional Planning program measures student success in terms of the awards and other recognition students received for their work while students. During the past several years, University of Michigan Urban and Regional Planning Program students have won the following individual or group project awards:

Student Awards

• Three Student Projects Win Michigan Association of Planning Top Honors

• M.U.R.P. Student Dolores Perales Receives Statewide Young Climate Leader Award

• Taubman Team Places Second in Nationwide Affordable Housing Competition

• M.U.R.P. Capstone Wins National Award from the American Planning Association

• Urban Planning Student Association Honored by American Planning Association

• Four Taubman College Students Named Dow Sustainability Fellows

• PhD Candidate and Mellon Fellow Honored with Graham Foundation's Carter Manny Award

• del Campo, Manninger Awarded College’s 2nd Architect Magazine Studio Prize​ for Swiss Physics Lab Site

• Agora wins 2018 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals

• Pimentel Walker, Arquero de Alarcon Brazil Capstone & Studio Wins Planning Award

• Masters of Urban Planning Capstone Wins 2018 AICP Student Project Award

• The Student-led project “Ocupação Anchieta Avança! Ocupação Anchieta Forward! Received First-Place Award of $35,000 in the 2017 Dow Distinguished Awards for Interdisciplinary Sustainability

Additional Student News

• Taubman Students, Faculty Present at National ACSP Conference

• Architecture Students, Faculty Attend ACADIA 2018 in Mexico City

• Students Study Water Issues at Mexican Border

• 2018 Architecture Student Show Recognizes Outstanding Student Work

• Taubman College wins in three categories in this year’s North Campus Deans’ MLK Spirit Awards

• Taubman College Students Propose Campuses of the Future