Students
Students come to the department from around the globe.
The educational backgrounds of students cover a wide range of undergraduate fields. Among them are architecture, biology, business, economics, engineering, forestry, geography, geology, history, landscape architecture, philosophy, planning, political science, psychology, public administration, sociology, and urban studies. Although some come to the department directly upon completion of undergraduate work, a larger number first gain experience in planning or in other fields.
Students in the department are very active.
Each semester students publish a nationally recognized journal, Carolina Planning Journal, which focuses on planning issues in the southeast United States. Student projects have won national and state-level awards from the American Planning Association. Planning students, collaborating with students from the Law School and the Business School, have sponsored and built several homes under the Habitat for Humanity program and raised money for other worthy causes, not only in the U.S., but in Central America, Eastern Europe, and other parts of the world. Students serve on departmental committees in the areas of curriculum, admissions, faculty recruitment, and doctoral program. Planners' Forum, the planning student organization, also sponsors a program of visiting speakers, a vigorous intramural sports program, and an active social agenda.
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Class of 2013
Meghan Aminto
Allison Bullock
Connie Chan
Yan Chen
Veronica Conti
Peter Cvelich
Taylor Dennerlein
Thomas Dworetsky
Katherine Dydak
Michael Goralnik
Geoffrey Green
Jeeeun Ha
Monisha Khurana
Sarah Kirk
Kristen Langford
Joshua McCarty
Brooke Morris
Alexandria Murnan
Daisuke Nagase
Patrick Nerz
Marcia Perritt
Aspen Price
Jason Queen
Ashley Robertson
Eryn Rosenblum
Anna Schaefer
Carly Sieff
Jennifer Slesinger
Jennifer Tausig
Daniel Widis
Ashley Williams
Class of 2012
Christopher Allison
Catherine Bartels
Brennan Bouma
Daniel Brookshire
Michael Chasnow
Juneho Chung
Heather Morris Cohen
Harley Cooper
Terra Curtis
David Daddio
Maire Dekle
Katrina Durbak
Travis Green
Theodora Hadjimichael
Lindsay Herendeen
Heather Hunt
Vivian Jaynes
Tania Jordanova
Jason Kajer
Gwen Kash
Micah Kordsmeier
Amanda Mansfield
Alexander McSpadden
Rachel Meyerson
Vincent Monaco
Barron Monroe
Arta Osmanaj
Uri Pachter
Edward Parzick
Lesley Pories
Karla Rosenberg
Chrishaun Smith
Anisha Steephen
Matthew Tomasulo
Clara Turner
Kyle Vangel
Lauren Wang
Christopher Wells
Ph.D. students
BA (History), Howard University 2004;
MS (History) Howard University 2006.
Lilah Besser
BS (Biology) Olgethorpe University
MS (History) Howard University
William Bishop
BA (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Columbia University, 1998;
MRP (City and Regional Planning), University of North Carolina, 2007.
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BS (Biology), Emory University, 1995;
MPH (Public Health), Emory University, 1998.
Emai
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BS (Urban Enginnering) Seoul National University, 1999;
MS (Urban Enginnering) Seoul National University, 2001;
MUP (Urban and Regional Planning) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.
BS (Civil Engineering), North Carolina State University, 1973;
MS (Engineering), North Carolina State University, 1984.
BSAD (Architecture) Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1986;
MUP (Urban Planning) Texas A&M College Station, 1993.
BA (Economics, Russian), Wellesley College, 2001;
MRP (City and Regional Planning), University of North Carolina, 2006
Kevin Fitzgerald
Allan Mathew Freyer
BA, Duke University (1999)
MCRP, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2007)
David Fuente
Andrew Guinn
BA (International Studies) University of Wisconsin-Madison
MCRP (Planning) University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
BA (Urban Studies) Brown University, 2004;
BS (Applied Math and Computer Science) Brown University, 2004.
BS (Architecture) Seoul National University, 1995;
MS (Architecture) Seoul National University, 1997;
MCP (Master of City Planning) Massachusetts Institute Technology 2000.
BA (Political Science), Soochow University, 1984
MPA (Public Administration), University of South Alabama, 1988
MDA (Development Administration), Western Michigan University, 1989.
BA (History) Northwestern University, 2002;
MUEP (Environmental Planning) University of Virginia, 2007.
Jun Huh
Gwen Kash
BA (Architecture Design Theory) New York University
BA (Geology) Middlebury College, 1998;
MS (Land Resource) University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002.
Louis Merlin
BA (Mathematics) Yale University, 1994;
MS (Operations Research) Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999;
MS (City and Regional Planning) Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.
BA (Politics, Spanish) Willamette University, 1999;
MRP (City and Regional Planning) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005.
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Kevin Park
Ke Peng
BA (Architecture Design and Theory) Human University
MS (Architecture Design and Theory) Shenzhen University
MCRP (Planning) University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Tony Sease
BSE (Civil Engineering) Duke University, 1991
MARCH (Architecture) Virginia Tech, 1998
Joshu Shih
A.B. (Human Biology), Stanford, 2001
MPH (Health Behavior and Health Education), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005
MRP (City and Regional Planning), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005
Erik Vergel
BS Architecture, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2002
MS Urban Management and Development, IHS Institute, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2006
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Alyssa Wittenborn
BA (Environmental Science), 19995;
MA (Environmental Science), 2001.
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