The Stan Czamanski Prize This statement invites submissions for consideration of the Stan Czamanski Prize recently established by the RSAI. The Prize is awarded every year at the North American Meetings beginning in 2015 based on submissions by June 30. However, in 2015 an extension to September 30, 2015 has been agreed to.
Ph.D. students whose dissertation proposals were "defended and approved" during the period July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015 are eligible to apply for this award. Submissions may be sent to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . Submissions received after September 30, 2015 will be returned. The Stan Czamanski Prize is awarded by the Regional Science Association International in memory of Professor Stan Czamanski, an early recipient of a Ph.D. in regional science (1963), a member of the University of Pennsylvania regional science faculty (1963-1966), a member of the regional science faculty of Cornell University (1966-1988), and a past-president of the Regional Science Association (1975-1976). 1. The annual prize is awarded to author of the best Ph.D. dissertation proposal judged to exemplify the philosophy and approach of Professor Czamanski, as described below. 2. The US$1,000 prize is awarded to the student and a plaque to the student's advisor. 3. The selection will be made by a panel of three persons: a senior and long-standing member of the regional science community, a representative of the field of Regional Science at Cornell and a member of the RSAI Council. 4. Students writing dissertations on problems in regional science from around the world are invited to enter the competition, in the spirit of Stan's all-embracing philosophy. 5. The award is presented at the North American Regional Science Meetings. Rules of the competition Applications are to be submitted by June 30 of each year. To be eligible, the dissertation proposal must have been defended and approved during the past 12 months. Each applicant will submit the following: 1. A statement in six pages or less that clearly sets out the research question(s) and issues to be addressed, approach to be used, and product expected from the dissertation research. The six-page limit is exclusive of references, tables and figures. This text and references should be in 12 point or larger font and single-spaced. In addition, a summary (maximum one page) describing the intellectual merit of the proposed research and why the proposed approach may be regarded as implementing Professor Czamanski's philosophy and approach, as described below. 2. A curriculum vita of no more than two pages. 3. Copies of the candidate's transcripts for all graduate study. Unofficial copies are acceptable. 4. A separate, confidential letter from the dissertation supervisor assessing the quality and significance of the proposed dissertation research. Philosophy and Research Approach of Professor Stan Czamanski In his Introduction to Regional Science (Prentice-Hall, 1975, p. 2), Walter Isard wrote: "In brief, regional science as a discipline concerns the careful and patient study of social (science) problems with regional or spatial dimensions, employing diverse combinations of analytical and empirical research." Professor Czamanski's research exemplified the analysis of social problems with regional and spatial dimensions. In doing so, he chose judiciously the right combination of analytical and empirical research methods from his tool box to address the specific issue at hand. Many of his papers illustrated how particular combinations of methods could be used most aptly to study particular problems. Dissertation proposals submitted for the Stan Czamanski Prize will be judged with regard to how the student proposes to bring an appropriate combination of analytical and empirical methods to bear on a social problem with spatial or regional dimensions, and how this combination of methods is expected to deliver greater insights into the problem in question. Reference Czamanski, S. (1976) The evolving epistemology of regional science, Presidential address, Papers, Regional Science Association, 37, 7-17.
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