MDes Thesis Prize Winners
2020 // Karan Saharya, MDes CC 2020
for In the Name of Heritage: Conservation as an Agent of Elite Development, Spatial Cleansing, and Social Exclusion in Mehrauli, Delhi
2019 // Izzy Kornblatt, MDes CC 2019
for Architecture for a New World: Louis Kahn and Philadelphia
2018 // Enrique Aureng Silva, MDes CC 2018
for Critical Intervention: the Liminality of Earthquakes as Alternative to Preservation in Mexico
2016 // Josselyn F. Ivanov, MDes CC 2016
for Un-Greening Golden Gate Park
2014 // Ashley Mendelson, MDes ADPD 2014 *
for Learning from District Six: Drawing on Capetown
* with S Snyder + G Thomas as critics
Grants, Awards, + Fellowships
Xinru Liu, MDes CC Candidate 2021
GSD Community Service Fellowship, 2020
Isabel Oyuela-Bonzani, MDes CC Candidate 2021
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Summer Grant, 2020
MDes Annual Research and Development Award, 2020
GSD Independent Summer Research Grant, 2020
Divya Saraf, MDes CC Candidate 2021
Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Summer Grant, 2020
MDes Annual Research and Development Award, 2020
GSD Independent Summer Research Grant, 2020
Yu Wang, MDes CC Candidate 2021
Peter G. Rowe Financial Aid Fund for International Students, 2020
Di Zeng, MDes CC Candidate 2021
Harvard University Asia Center Winter Research Grant, 2020
MDes Annual Research and Development Award, 2020
Somayeh Chitchian, DDes 2018
Research Fellow with the Urban Theory Lab at Harvard GSD, Present – 2016
MDesS 2013 Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, 2019 – 2015
Harvard ESRI Development Center Student of the Year Award, 2014
Karan Saharya, MDes CC 2020
Gerald M. McCue Medal, 2020
Design Studies Thesis Prize, 2020
GSD Summer Research Grant, 2020
India Design Leadership Fellowship, 2020 – 2018
Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Research Grant, 2019
Joint Center for Housing Studies Winter Research Grant, 2019
MDes Annual Research and Development Award, 2019
Alexandra Indira Sanyal, MDes CC 2020
Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Research Grant, 2019
MDes Annual Research and Development Award, 2019
Paul Heffernan Travel Prize, 2019
Francisco Brown-Ortega, MDes CC 2020
GSD Summer Research Grant, 2020
Weiyi Cao, MDes CC 2020
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Student Research Grant, 2019
Elena Clarke, MDes CC 2020
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Student Research Grant, 2019
GSD Student Summer Research Grant, 2019
2nd Prize – Harvard TH Chan Public Health Hackathon, 2019
Harvard CBE Sustainability Grant, 2019
Sasaki Foundation New Models for Housing Research Fellowship, 2019
Linda Just, MDes CC 2020
GSD Summer Research Grant, 2020
Corine Morain, MDes CC 2020
Arthur Sachs Scholarship Fund, 2018 – 2020
Lei Song, MDes CC 2020
Harvard Asia Center Graduate Research Travel Grant, 2019
Maria Letizia Garzoli, MDes CC 2018
Harvard GSD Richard Rogers Fellowship, 2019
Izzy Kornblatt, MDes CC 2019
Design Studies Thesis Prize, 2019
Dean’s Fellowship, 2019
Design Studies Summer Research Grant, 2018
Francisco Colom, MDes CC 2019
GSD Community Service Fellowship, 2018
Carrie Gammell, MDes CC 2019
MDes Project Research and Development Award, 2018
Longyun Ren, MDes CC 2019
MDes Project Research and Development Award, 2018
Prathima Muniyappa, MDes CC 2018
Design Studies Thesis Award, 2018
Harvard Asia Center Summer Research Grant, 2017
Student Conference Forum Award, 2017
Mexican Cities Initiative, Seed for Change 2017 and 2016
Ranjani Srinivasan, MDes CC 2018
Harvard South Asia J-Term Research Grant, 2018
Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute Research Grant, 2017
Enrique Aureng Silva, MDes CC 2018
Design Studies Thesis Prize, 2018
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Summer Grant, 2017
Luisa Brando, MDes CC 2018
Harvard Asia Center Summer Research Grant, 2017
Esesua Ikpefan, MDes CC 2018
Center for African Studies Grant, 2017
J-Term Research Grant, 2017
Boya Guo, MDes CC 2017
Design Studies Final Project Award, 2017
Guan Min, MDes CC 2017
Harvard Asia Center Research Grant, 2016
Javier Ors Ausín, MDes CC 2017
Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) at Harvard Grant, 2016
GSD Community Service Fellowship, 2016
Paul M. Heffernan Travel Prize, 2016
Student Forum Conference Award, 2016
MDes Research and Development Award, 2016
Michail Papavarnavas, MDes CC 2017
Paul M. Heffernan Travel Prize, 2016
Francesca Roman Forlini, MDes CC 2017
Fulbright Fellowship, 2017 – 2016
Micheal J. Vinciguerra Scholarship, 2016
John R. Mott Scholarship, 2016
Josselyn F Ivanov, MDes CC 2016
Design Studies Project Prize, 2016
Yunjie Li, MDes CC 2016
Dean’s Grant, 2016
Elad Horn, MDes CC 2016
Grants from the Tel Aviv Municipality and German Federal Ministry for Building, 2016
