John S. Adams Award Recipients

The John S. Adams Award for Excellence in Transportation Research and Education is given to University of Minnesota graduate students demonstrating outstanding academic achievement in planning and public policy fields. Up to two students are honored each year (one master’s and one doctoral candidate).


2023 Recipients

Gustave Stewart
Gustave Stewart
Sebastian Coll
Sebastian Coll

Sebastian Coll

Sebastian Coll is a master's student in civil engineering and urban planning, advised by Greg Lindsey.

Gustave Stewart

Gustave Stewart is a master's student in urban and regional planning, advised by Jason Cao and Greg Lindsey.

Past Recipients

2022

There were no award recipients in 2022.

2021

Kimberly Napoline, master's candidate in advanced policy analysis methods (Advisor: Lee Munnich)

Erika Sheppard, master's candidate in urban planning (Advisors: Jason Cao and Greg Lindsey)

Tao Tao, doctoral candidate in public affairs, urban planning track (Advisor: Yingling Fan)

2020

Yunlei Qi, doctoral candidate in public affairs (Advisor: Greg Lindsey)

Shannon Engstrom, master's candidate in urban and regional planning (Advisor: Frank Douma)

2019

Colleen Peterson, doctoral candidate in epidemiology (Advisor: Mark Peirera)

Leoma Van Dort, master's candidate in urban and regional planning at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs (Advisor: Ed Goetz)

2018

Xinyi Wu, doctoral candidate in urban planning at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs (Advisor: Jason Cao)

Travis Fried, Master of GIS student in the College of Liberal Arts (Advisor: Susanna McMaster)

2017

Jueyu Wang, doctoral candidate in public affairs (concentration in urban planning) at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs (Advisor: Greg Lindsey)

2016

Kirti Das, doctoral candidate in public affairs at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs (Advisor: Yingling Fan)

Alireza Ermagun, master's candidate in urban and regional planning  at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs (Advisor: Greg Lindsey)

2015

Andrew Guthrie, doctoral candidate in public affairs at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs (Advisor: Yingling Fan)

Spencer Peck, master’s candidate in urban & regional planning at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs (Advisor: Frank Douma)

2014

Chen Zhang, master's candidate in science, technology, and environmental policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs (Advisor: Jason Cao)

2013

Jessica Schoner, Humphrey School of Public Affairs master's program and Department of Civil Engineering master's program (Advisors: Jason Cao and David Levinson)

2012

Qian Chen, Humphrey School of Public Affairs master's program and Department of Statistics master's program (Advisor: Yingling Fan)  

David Smith, doctoral candidate in the Department of Applied Economics (Advisor: Frances Homans)

2011

David Coyle, master's candidate in the Department of Applied Economics

Pavithra Parthasarathi, candidate in the Doctorate of Civil Engineering

2010

Zhiyi Xu, candidate in the Master of Urban and Regional Planning Program at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Shanjiang Zhu, candidate in the Doctorate of Civil Engineering and candidate in the Master of Science in Applied Economics

2009

Katie Roth, candidate in the Master of Urban and Regional Planning Program at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs