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Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in Planning Recognizes superior scholarship in a doctoral dissertation completed by a student enrolled in an ACSP-member school. The committee seeks a thesis that is original, well written, employs methods elegantly, offers lessons pertinent to central issues in the field of planning, and provides guidance about how planners or governments should make choices. Nominees must have received the doctoral degree in the two years preceding the deadline (May 2006 through June 2008). The award will be announced in Fall, 2008. There is an option to present the work at the 2009 ACSP Conference. The committee will accept for review no more than one nomination from each doctoral program. Initial nominations, to come jointly from the dissertation committee chairperson and the department chair or director of graduate studies, are to consist of three copies of ONLY the table of contents and the introductory and concluding chapters, together with two letters of recommendation, one of which must be from the chair of the nominee’s dissertation committee, and a university document indicating the date of award of the degree. The committee may then ask for the full thesis from selected finalists. These materials should be sent before July 1, 2008 to: Pierre Clavel, Chair ACSP Jones Award Committee Department of Urban and Regional Planning Cornell University West Sibley Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-6701 *Please include an up-to-date address/email address for the nominee. *
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