From "Against the Grain," Master of Landscape Architecture 2nd Prize in 2020 U.S. EPA Campus RainWorks Competition.
Our landscape architecture, real estate development, sustainable built environments and urban planning students regularly win a variety of awards.
Awards include those offered through the school as well as esteemed regional, national and international awards. Learn more about our award-winning students and their projects.
End-of-Year Student Awards
Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Built Environments Awards
SBE Capstone Award
- Kiera Eason
- Jesús Ponce de León Galarza
- Korina Simons
- Pierina Virhuez
NITC Student Scholar Award
- Lauren Heat
Faculty Commendation
- Carla A. Campos
- Joaquin Chocano
- Eric Dahlstrom
- Briana DiNicola
- Kiera Eason
- Bárbara Félix
- Lauren Heath
- Alejandra Huerta
- Keegan Kowal
- Will Leipold
- André Luperdi
- Oscar Sebastian Motta Celiz
- Brad David Nelson
- Jesús Ponce de León Galarza
- Oscar Rodriguez Ponce
- Heather Schulz
- Korina Simons
- Shamara Smith
- Rodrigo Torreblanca
- Sebastian Valesco
- Irvanna Velazco Gomez
- Adriana Velis
- Pierina Virhuez
Master of Landscape Architecture Student Awards
Landscape Architecture Foundation Olmsted Scholar
- Kendra Potter
CELA Fountain Scholar Award
- Irene Pineda
AzASLA Honor Award
- Kendra Potter
- Alizabeth Potucek
AzASLA Merit Award
- Hunter Lohse
- Heather Schmidt
AzASLA 2022 Student Collaborative Design Honor Award
- Hunter Lohse
- Ethan Wissler
AzASLA 2021 Student Individual Honor Award
- Austin Young
AzASLA Student Community Service Honor Award
- Mattea Wallace
Leadership Award
- Mattea Wallace
Outstanding Community Service Award
- Alizabeth Potucek
NITC Student Scholar Award
- Jacqueline Howell
- Ethan Wissler
MRED Faculty Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Kendra Potter
Planning Faculty Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Jacob Siegel
Outstanding GPA Award
- Hunter Lohse
- Alizabeth Potucek
- Mattea Wallace
- Ethan Wissler
- Austin Young
Sigma Lambda Alpha Honor Society
- Jordan Lawson
- Hunter Lohse
- Emily Lorenz
- Kendra Potter
- Heather Schmidt
- Mattea Wallace
- Austin Young
Master of Real Estate Development Student Awards
Outstanding GPA Award
- Jessica Bassi
- Brianna Lostaglio
- Nicholas Moran
- Joshua Olsen
- Jose Pardo Urrea
- Ryan Querubin
- Lori Summers
- Candace Sutherland-Mott
Master of Science in Urban Planning Student Awards
2022 AICP Outstanding Student Award
- Christina Scarpitti
NITC Student Scholar Award
- Melanie Olson
- Christina Scarpitti
- Ethan Wissler
Best Colleague Award
- Christina Scarpitti
Excellence in Planning Research Award
- Benjamin Carpenter
- Nathalia Untiveros
Faculty Distinction Award
- Melanie Olson
Leadership Award
- Garrett Aldrete
Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant
- Ethan Wissler
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Christina Scarpitti
Outstanding GPA Award
- Garrett Aldrete
- Benjamin Carpenter
- Melanie Olson
- Christina Scarpitti
- Ethan Wissler
Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Built Environments Awards
Capstone Award
- Tiburcio Bazúa Jr | Food Deserts and Sustainable Multifamily Greenhouse Design
Outstanding GPA Award
- Shannon Buchele
- Suzanne Ries
Master of Landscape Architecture Student Awards
Landscape Architecture Foundation Olmsted Award
- Paige Anthony
ASLA Honor Award
- Ramzy Bejjani
ASLA Merit Award
- Paige Anthony
AzASLA Student Collaborative Award of Excellence
- Paige Anthony
- Ramzy Bejjani
Leadership Award
- Ramzy Bejjani
Outstanding Community Service Award
- Rebecca Shaw
Elizabeth “Liba” Wheat Memorial Prize
- Paige Anthony
- Ramzy Bejjani
Outstanding GPA
- Ramzy Bejjani
Sigma Lambda Alpha Honor Society
- Paige Anthony
- Ramzy Bejjani
- Chelsea Hendryk
- Rebecca Shaw
- Gabrielle Spickard
Master of Science in Urban Planning Student Awards
2021 APA Outstanding Student Award
- Wyatt Berger
Friends of Planning Excellence Award
- Chrissy Scarpitti ’22 (1st Place)
- Wyatt Berger ’21 (2nd Place)
- Elliot Welch ’21 (3rd Place)
Excellence in Planning Research Award
- Lincoln Edwards Jr
Leadership Award
- Elliot Welch
NITC Student Scholar Award
- Wyatt Berger
- Eric Carlson
- Jackson Cassidy
- Lincoln Edwards Jr
- Paul Daniel La Farga
- Georgia Pennington
- Elliot Welch
- Blake Zetter
Best Colleague Award
- Jackson Cassidy
Outstanding GPA
- Wyatt Berger
- Eric Carlson
- Elliot Welch
- Blake Zetter
Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Built Environments Awards
Capstone Award
- Lauran Morrissey | The Connection between People and Place: A Case Study on Social Interactions in University of Arizona Outdoor Spaces
- Owen Shorey | Sustainable Event Transportation: Reducing Traffic Impacts of University of Arizona Events
Master of Landscape Architecture Student Awards
Landscape Architecture Foundation Olmsted Award
- Penelope Cottrell-Crawford
ASLA Honor Award
- Tess Wagner
ASLA Merit Award
- Penelope Cottrell-Crawford
AzASLA Student Collaborative Award of Excellence
- Penelope Cottrell-Crawford, Dionna Marie Hatch and Rebecca Johnstone | Modern Krutch
- inqiao (Joy) Deng, Mario Nuño-Whelan, Isaac Palomo and Tess Wagner | Against the Grain
Leadership Award
- Mario Nuño-Whelan
Best Colleague Award
- Rebecca Johnstone
Outstanding Community Service Award
- Isaac Palomo
Outstanding Master's Report, Research Emphasis
- Penelope Cottrell-Crawford
Outstanding Master's Report, Creative Emphasis
- Mario Nuño-Whelan
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Penelope Cottrell-Crawford
- Mario Nuño-Whelan
Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant
- Tess Wagner
Master of Science in Urban Planning Student Awards
2020 AICP Outstanding Student Award
- Lindsey Romaniello
Excellence in Planning Research Award
- Warren Bristol
- Samuel Jensen
- Julian Griffeee
- Lena Porell
- Andrew Quarles
- Lindsey Romaniello
Planning Excellence Award (Design Excellence)
- Ariel Fry
- Julian Griffee
- Samuel Jensen
- Lena Porell
- Andrew Quarles
- Yicheng Xu
Leadership Award
- Lena Porell
Outstanding Community Service
- Julian Griffee
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Lena Porell
Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant
- Quinton Fitzpatrick
- Samuel Jensen
- Andrew Quarles
Best Colleague Award
- Ariel Fry
NITC Student Scholar Award
- Warren Bristol
- Quinto Fitzpatrick
- Andrew Quarles
Outstanding GPA
- Warren Bristol
- Quinton Fitzpatrick
- Ariel Fry
- Julian Griffee
- David Jellen
- Samuel Jensen
- Andrew Quarles
- Lindsey Romaniello
Other Student Awards & Stories
Urban Planning Students Win State Award
The award-winning student team worked with communities in the Globe-Miami region of Arizona to craft a framework plan that focused on health, community, environment, connectivity, and economic growth.
Planning Student Selected as 2020 ADOT/TRB Minority Fellow
As Tucson awaits the up-oming drop of hundreds of shared electric-scooters (or e-scooters) on our streets, one CAPLA student investigates how local agencies regulate these third-party companies to encourage safe, equitable, and responsible operation.
Affordable Housing Project Receives National Recognition
An innovative mixed-income housing development designed by an interdisciplinary team of CAPLA students was awarded Second Place/Honorable Mention in the 2019 Bank of America Merrill Lynch Low-Income Housing Challenge.
CAPLA Receives Top Spots in 2018 EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge
For the second year in a row, two of the six winning teams in the EPA Campus Rainworks Challenge were from Bo Yang's third year master of landscape architecture design studio.
MLA Students Receive Award for Water Harvesting Design
Three student teams created innovative green infrastructure designs for a portion of the University of Arizona’s main campus that prioritized stormwater harvesting and flood mitigation.
CAPLA students receive national awards in the 2017 EPA Campus Rainworks Challenge
Two of the six winning teams in the 2017 EPA Campus Rainworks Challenge were from Bo Yang's third year master of landscape architecture design studio.