The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Global Planners Education Interest Group (GPEIG) awarded Soo Yeon Lim the Best Student Paper Award for her work on “Contesting Publicness in Urban Peripheries: Lived Experiences of Flower Farmers in Greenbelt and Negotiated Housing Production in Gwacheon, South Korea.” 

Professor Mi Shih was awarded the Global Planning Educators’ Interest Group’s (GPEIG) 2025 Award for the Best Journal Article for her work entitled, “A politically less contested and financially more calculable urban future: Density techniques and heightened land commodification in Taiwan,” with co-author with Ying-Hui Chiang, Department of Land Economics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. It appeared in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Volume 56, Issue 6, September 2024.