Zhenhua Chen won the prize for his dissertation entitled “Transportation and Regional Output in the Northeast Megaregion: A Spatial Econometric Computable General Equilibrium Assessment”. He was supervised by Professor Kingsley Haynes, George Mason University. For more details please go to http://www.regionalscience.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=365&Itemid=602.