Craig Carpenter, an assistant professor in the Michigan State University Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, has been given the 2024 Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Award by the North American Regional Science Council.

NARSC is an international scholarly organization that includes institutional members and covers a wide range of disciplines such as economics, geography, finance, public policy, urban planning and more.

The award, which is presented once each year, recognizes distinguished contributions to regional science research by a scientist in the first 10 years after receiving a doctoral degree. Carpenter is the second MSU researcher to win the award, which began in 1995. It was presented to him Nov. 15 in New Orleans at the 71st Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International.