| SRSA Award Winners |
Olivier Parent, University of Cincinnati, receives the 2008 "Willliam H. Miernyk Research Excellence Medal" from Randall Jackson, West Virginia University
Johnathan Munn, University of South Carolina, receives the 2008 Barry M. Moriarty Student Paper Competition Award from Mark Partridge
Mary Lou Myer, West Virginia University, receives the first "Willliam A. Schaffer Award," 2008 for distinguished service to regional science
| BARRY M. MORIARTY STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION |
The Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA) annually awards a prize to the student submitting the best paper in the area of Regional Science. The following qualifications apply:
- The student must be enrolled full-time at an accredited academic institution sometime during the year following April 2007;
- The student must be sponsored by a member of the SRSA; and
- the winning student is expected to present the paper at a session of the annual meetings of the Association, using the award to defray costs of attending.
Papers must be double-spaced, no more than 25 pages in length, and written in the style of the Review of Regional Studies. The cover page should include: the paper's title; the author's full name, address, and telephone and fax numbers; similar information for the sponsor, and an abstract of 100-1250 words.
A copy of the paper must be submitted via email to:
Dr. Robert Gibbs
USDA Economic Research Service
Room 2061
1800 M ST NW
Washington, DC 20036-5828
Email:
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Winners include:
- Robert Dunn, West Virginia University, 2007
- Diehang Zhang, University of Southern California, 2006
- Lei Ding, George Mason University, 2005
- Guang Yang, George Mason University, 2004
- Up Lim, University of Texas at Austin, 2003
- Kyojun Koo, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002
- Xie Qingshu, George Mason University, 2001
- Garen Evans, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, 2000
- Robert Greenbaum, Assistant Professor, Public Policy & Management, Ohio State University, 1999
- Mark L. Burkey, Department of Economics, Duke University, 1998
- Ben P. Cecil, University of Western Ontario, 1997
| The William H. Miernyk Research Excellence Medal |
Upon its 40th anniversary, the Regional Research Institute at West Virginia University initiated an award for scholarly excellence in honor of Dr. William H. Miernyk, founder and first Director of the Institute. The William H. Miernyk Research Excellence Medal (the Miernyk Medal) is awarded annually to a young scholar for the best solely-authored paper presented at the Southern Regional Science Meeting. The winning paper will report the diligent and systematic enquiry and discovery of facts or principles relating to a topic of interest to regional scientists.
Full details of the The William H. Miernyk Research Excellence Medal can be read at the Regional Research Institute's website