This scholarship for up to two $2,000 awards, available to an undergraduate or graduate planning student (or a student in a closely-related field such as public administration, public policy, geography, architecture or landscape architecture) with a demonstrated interest in planning issues affecting older suburban communities. Strong preference will be given to those students who have lived, worked or studied in Westchester County, New York or have some other relevant connection to the County. The scholarship is available only to those students who will be continuing their studies in the summer and/or fall semesters of 2025.
This application may be completed by hand or typed directly in the pdf format. If you type directly in the pdf format, please remember to rename the document or the information will not be saved. If you need additional space, attachments may be provided. Please be sure to read and follow the submission instructions at the end of the application.
Submission Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2025
The scholarship will be announced by Tuesday May 13, 2025, and presented to the recipient by late May. The recipient(s) will also be recognized at WMPF’s Annual Planning Awards Dinner on May 29, 2025 at the Hudson Loft in Irvington, NY. The recipient should anticipate attending this event as a guest of WMPF.
EMAIL COMPLETED APPLICATIONS TO:
Sabrina Charney Hull, AICP
WMPF Member-at-Large
Email: sabrina@mynewcastle.org
If you have any questions, please email Sabrina.
Congratulations to our 2024 Scholarship Winners Grace Roebuck and Jacob Rosewater! They were chosen from a wide variety of talented applicants. See below for some of the highlights of each of them that stood out to the committee:
Grace Roebuck is a rising undergraduate senior at Bryn Mawr College where she majors in Growth and Structure of Cities with a minor in Sociology. She has lived in Westchester County her whole life and currently resides in Bedford. Last summer she had to the opportunity to intern for the Town of Bedford Planning Department where she successfully researched and wrote a $50k grant to design a biking and pedestrian path through downtown. Currently, she is interested in studying affordable housing, community informed planning, and equitable redevelopment in suburban neighborhoods to mitigate sprawl. This summer, she will be interning with Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress where she will be researching adaptive reuse strategies for closed malls and schools to address the current housing shortage in the Hudson Valley. After graduation, Grace hopes to work in the planning field before getting her Master’s in Regional and Urban Planning.”
Jacob Rosewater is a rising senior at Cornell University’s College of Arts, Architecture, and Planning with a major in Urban and Regional Studies (URS) and a minor in Animal Science. He has spent the last half decade focused on regional housing and land use policy, including at the Westchester County Department of Planning (Summer 2021, Summer 2022) and the Westchester County Board of Legislators (Summer 2023, Dec. 2023 – Present). His research interests include the institutional development of suburban municipalities in New York State and quantitative geography in the field of American Jewish Studies, among other topics.