Berry Scholarship
The Berry Scholarship
The Berry Scholarship is one of the most prestigious scholarships in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences in honor of Brian J.L. Berry, who is Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
The award is typically given to students who are in the top ¼ of the applicant pool for a given program.
About Dr. Brian J.L. Berry
Dr. Berry joined the faculty in 1986 to help Provost Alex Clark “build a new university” at UTD. Prior to joining us at UT Dallas, he was the Irving B. Harris Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Chicago, the Frank Backus Williams Professor of City and Regional Planning and Director of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics at Harvard, and University Professor of Urban Studies and Public Policy and the Dean of the (now) Heinz College at Carnegie-Mellon University. At UTD, he became dean of the School of Social Sciences in 2005 and transformed it into the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. He left the deanship in 2010.
Among his many honors, here are only the most impressive awards of distinction. In 1975, he was elected as the youngest ever member of the social sciences to the National Academy of Sciences. In 1983 he was elected a Fellow of University College, London, and in 1987 he received the James R. Anderson Medal of Honor from the Association of American Geographers. In 1988 he was awarded the Victoria Medal by the Royal Geographical Society and in 1989 was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1992, he was awarded the Rockefeller Prize in the Social Sciences.
In 1999, he was first geographer elected to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences and in 2000 he was awarded the title of Lordship of Hastingleigh (Co. Kent) due to his many accomplishments. In 2005 he was announced as winner (Lauréat) of the Prix International de Géographie “Vautrin Lud” (Geography’s Nobel Prize). In 2017 the International N.D Kondratieff Foundation named him a Kondratieff Medal Laureate and in 2020 he was awarded the American Association of Geographers’ Stan Brunn Award for Scholarly Creativity. At UT Dallas, he has chaired more than 80 dissertations to completion (throughout his career more than 150) in addition to being an exemplary colleague and mentor to many.
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