This prize may be awarded annually to the landscape architecture student who has shown outstanding ability and talent in design. 

Upon recommendation of the faculty in the Department of Urban Planning and Design, a prize is given to the graduating student in the programs leading to the degrees MAUD, MLAUD, or MUP who has prepared the best independent thesis during that academic year.

This award honors graduating students in the urban planning and urban design programs who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in their respective programs during their time at the Graduate School of Design.

These fellowships were established by a gift of the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation to provide fellowships in support of community and public service. 

In 1992, Mrs. Norman T. Newton created a fund in memory of her late husband, Norman T. Newton, professor emeritus of the GSD, for an annual prize to be awarded to a graduating landscape architecture student whose work best exemplifies achievement in design expression as realized in any medium.

This prize was established in 2001 with gifts from family and friends, in memory of Kevin Kieran, former faculty member and graduate from the Master in Architecture program in 1985. 

On nomination by the faculty in the Department of Architecture, the Boston Society of Architects, a chapter of the AIA, awards the James Templeton Kelley Prize annually for the best final design project submitted by a candidate for the professional degree in architecture.

Upon recommendation of the faculty in the Department of Architecture, this award is presented annually to a graduating student from each of the MArch I and MArch II programs. It is given in recognition of significant achievement throughout the relevant program's design studio sequence.