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G. Holmes Perkins Award

Sidney Wong

Dr. Sidney Wong, assistant professor of city and regional planning, is this year's recipient of the G. Holmes Perkins Award for Distinguished Teaching. He was acknowledged for his teaching contributions at this year's award ceremony on Sunday, May 18.

Dr. Wong received his Ph.D. in city and regional planning from University of California at Berkeley, and his M.S. in town planning from the University of Wales, a masters and bachelors degree of social science from the University of Hong Kong. His doctoral dissertation was selected by the Association of Collegiate School of Planning in 1998 as the best planning dissertation in North America.

He joined GSFA in January 2000 and teaches courses in urban economic development, quantitative methods, policy analysis, and evaluation, primarily to students in City and Regional Planning. As Director of Information Resources West Philadelphia and Philadelphia Data Consortium, he is responsible for overseeing the creation of a West Philadelphia information system, now widely used by neighborhood groups involved in planning and development of the neighborhoods adjacent to campus. (See http://westphillydata.library.upenn.edu/ for more information about InfoR.)

His teaching philosophy is to provide a nurturing, learning environment. He uses his research and planning experience to stimulate students to be analytical and responsive to urban issues. Students have noted that the models and templates developed in his quantitative planning courses have been of great value to them in their final studio work. Dr. Wong is planning to develop new courses in the area of community and economic development that will tie in with his current research in assessing tax incentive programs and examining community use of information technology.

The G. Holmes Perkins Award is given in recognition of distinguished teaching and innovation in the methods of instruction in the classroom, seminar, or studio to a faculty member in GSFA. The award is named in honor of G. Holmes Perkins who served as Dean of the School, 1951-1971, and was established by former Dean and Paley Professor Patricia Conway in 1993. G. Holmes Perkins has long been internationally recognized as a brilliant planner and educator, attracting an extraordinary faculty to the University.

 


  Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 34, May 27, 2003

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