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The 72nd North American Meetings of RSAI will be held at Denver Grand Hyatt from November 12-15. A special conference room rate and the hotel link will be published shortly.
The Call for Papers has been published. See the full call here.
If you are interested in organizing a special session, please contact Program Chair Neil Reid at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. You can see the special sessions here.
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Drs. Marco Modica (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) and Sandy Dall’erba (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) are inviting submissions for the 2026 NARSC (North American Regional Science Council) session at the AEA meeting (American Economic Association). The AEA meeting is one of the world’s largest meetings for Economists and in 2026 it will take place in Philadelphia, PA: https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/future-annual-meetings
The theme of the 2026 NARSC-AEA session will be “Economic impact of natural hazards and recovery”. All papers related to this theme are welcome.
If interested, please submit your paper or long abstract (1-2 pages) including authors’ name, affiliation and contact information to Marco Modica at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by May 15, 2025.
There is no fee for submission. A fee is to be paid to AEA once your paper is selected.
We look forward to seeing you at the 2026 NARSC-AEA session!
With best regards,
Marco Modica and Sandy Dall’erba
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Jiwon Baik, Ph.D. candidate in Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been selected as the winner of the North American Regional Science Council’s 25th Annual Benjamin H. Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science. The Fellowship will provide a 2025–2026 Academic Year stipend of $36,000 to support Ms. Baik’s dissertation research on “Advancing Regional Fire Resilience: Spatio-Temporal GeoAI and Spatial Optimization.”
Ms. Baik’s winning proposal presents a compelling framework and research design that promises to improve wildfire risk modeling and optimization of disaster resiliency efforts, an important and certainly a timely topic in regional science as well as for current public policy. Her dissertation research will develop a comprehensive and widely adaptable modeling approach for
fire risk assessment that will produce upgraded tools for determining efficient and code-compliant infrastructure access, enhancing fire and other emergency response capacities. The 2025 Selection Committee was especially impressed with the combination of intellectual ambition and on-the-ground relevance represented in the proposal, which includes provisions to deliver the research findings to local planners and wildfire responders as part of the UCSB Wildfire Resilience Initiative. Baik, who has been heavily engaged in regional science through research activity, publication, and participation in meetings, was named in 2024 as a finalist for the 24 th Stevens Fellowship. She is studying with dissertation advisor and Wildfire Resilience Initiative Director, Professor Alan Murray.
In addition to selecting the Fellowship recipient, the Selection Committee identified two applicants as meriting special recognition as finalists in the 25th Annual Competition: Donghwan Ki, Doctoral Student in City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State University, advised by Professor Zhenhua Chen; and Daniel Centuriao, Doctoral Student in Economics at West Virigina University, advised by Professor Brad Humphreys.
The 25th competition winner and finalists will be recognized at the awards luncheon of the 72nd North American Meetings of the RSAI in Denver, Colorado, November 12–15, 2025. The Committee thanks the 26 students who entered the competition, as well as their dissertation supervisors.
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One of the most distinguished regional scientists, Jean Paelinck, passed away on April 18, 2025, at the age of 94. You can read his Memoriam here.
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