Year: 2019

The program is proud to announce that Gabriel Lazcano, MRED December 2019 candidate, received a number of prominent industry scholarships in 2019. Lazcano received the following professional real estate industry scholarships:

Society of Real Estate Professionals Scholarship
Lazcano was one of eleven students selected for this scholarship. The annual scholarship is offered to eligible full-time undergraduate or graduate level students who are pursuing a career in real estate with the intent to relocate to Tampa Bay, FL after graduation.

NAIOP Diversity Scholarship
The NAIOP scholarship program supports students who are pursuing a degree in commercial real estate and is a key component of the association’s pledge to advance diversity in commercial real estate.

Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) Scholarship
The Pension Real Estate Association awards scholarships on an annual basis to promising students studying real estate at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These scholarships are awarded through PREA’s own scholarship program and financial need is considered in determining the amount of each award.

The Appraisal Institute Education and Relief Foundation (AIERF) Graduate Scholarship and the Minorities and Women Education Scholarship
The AIERF Graduate Scholarship is awarded on the basis of academic excellence and helps finance the educational endeavors of graduate students concentrating in real estate appraisal, land economics, real estate or allied fields and the AIERF Minorities and Women Education Scholarship helps minorities and women pursuing academic degrees in real estate appraisal or related fields.

Five Clemson University graduate students in the Master of Real Estate Development Program (MRED), the Master of City and Regional Planning Program (MCRP) and the Master of Historic Preservation Program (MSHP) get set in January 2019 to compete in the national ULI Hines Student Competition. In its 17^th year, teams of five students from at least three disciplines participate in the ideas competition to devise a “development program for a real site in a North American city, providing designs, market-based financial data, and related narratives.” (ULI Hines Student Competition)

The Clemson students competing as a multi-disciplinary team in this year’s challenge include Caitlin Coppinger (MCRP), Sean Dorsy (MRED), Alex Pemberton (MRED), James Poulnot (MRED), and Kendra Waters (MSHP). According to ULI, the competition “challenges students to collaborate across disciplines and imagine a better built environment.”

This year’s team will use the knowledge acquired during their academic years at Clemson University and various design, community planning, preservation and architecture experience each gained individually in their undergraduate education and careers before joining their respective graduate programs.

Each team will have two weeks for design their comprehensive design, January 14-28, 2019. The 2019 site is Cincinnati, Ohio. Toronto hosted the 2018 competition.

The winning team receives $50,000 and the finalist teams receive $10,000. Stay tuned for finalist team announcements in February 2019 and finalist teams presentation and winner announcements in April 2019.

Learn more about the ULI Hines Student Competition

Learn more about Clemson University’s MRED, MCRP, and MSHP Programs