Christopher Karlson of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been named the 2011 Rotch Travelling Scholarship recipient. Karlson will receive a $37,000 stipend to spend eight months traveling and studying architecture around the world. As first runner-up, Young Seop Lee of Jersey City, New Jersey, is invited to compete…

The American Academy in Rome yesterday announced the winners of the 2010-2011 Rome Prize. The Rome Prize is awarded annually through an open national competition that is juried by leading artists and scholars in the fellowship categories.…

Weifeng Victoria Lee (Photo: MIT)Architecture student Weifeng Victoria Lee, MIT alumna ’06 MArch ’10, has been named a Gates Cambridge Scholar for 2010. Lee is the only scholar in the field of Architecture among…

The jury for the Upjohn Research Initiative, a joint program of the College of Fellows and the Board Knowledge Committee to support knowledge sharing between practitioners and academicians, has announced the four projects selected to receive grants. The purpose of this grant is to provide base funds for applied research…

M2L, a NY-based furniture importer and distributor specializing in modern design, just announced the winners of its first-ever Genuine Design Scholarship. Furthering the company’s mission of promoting authenticity, M2L developed this scholarship in conjunction with Ruth Lynford, founder of NY Eleven, to educate students about knockoffs and their…

Gensler announced the winner of the Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship competition at Contract magazine’s 30th Annual Interiors Awards Breakfast in New York City. Danae Marie Ledgerwood, a senior at Woodbury University in Whittier, California, received the $7,500 academic scholarship and a post-graduation internship with Gensler. …

The 2008 recipients of the San Diego Architectural Foundation’s Steven C. Ladislaus Memorial Scholarship have been selected. A $4,000 scholarship has been awarded to Tri (Tim) Quang Do of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, California. An additional $1,000 was awarded to Chelsea Chan Hei, also…

Following the success of the inaugural traveling scholarship, which funded Ben Masterton-Smith’s research topic - Emerging East: Exploring and Experiencing the Asian Communist City - a second travel grant of £6,000 will be awarded to one student in 2008, selected from over 100 architecture schools with RIBA validation in the…