What’s New Among Graduate Students
Posts Awarded
(Posts taken by graduates, ABDs, or Alums in 2009, Geography appointment
if not otherwise stated).
- Matthew T. Huber - Syracuse University, NY,
Tenure-track Assistant Professor
- C. Hamil Pearsall - Temple University,
Visiting Professor
- Kevin Keenan - College of Charleston, SC,
Assistant Professor, Dept of Political Science
- Deb Ranjan Sinha - Michigan Technical
University, Tenure Track Assistant Professor
- Florencia Sangermano - Clark Labs/IDRISI,
Clark University
- Chunling Liu - NASA, Houston, TX
- Hao Chen - Clark Labs/IDRISI, Clark
University
- Allison Hayes-Conroy - Bryn Mawr, PA,
Visiting Professor
- Jacob Charles Brenner - Colgate University,
Visiting Professor
- Jacqueline Hamm Southern - UMass Amherst
and York College, NY, Visiting Professor
- Ximena Rueda-Small Coffee Growers
Association, Bogata, Colombia
- Susannah McCandless - Mt. Holyoke College,
MA, Assistant Professor
- I. Chatterjee - University of Texas,
Austin, Tenure-track Professor
(Posts taken by graduates, ABDs, or Alums in 2008; Geography appointment if
not otherwise stated)
- Jiang Ziying - University of New Orleans, Assistant
Professor
- Jennifer Brewer - East Carolina University
- Waquar Ahmed - Mount Holyoke College, Visiting
Assistant Professor
- Danielson Kisanga - Miami University, Assistant
Professor
- Anna Versluis - Gustuvus Adolphus College,
Assistant Professor
- Jake Brenner- Colgate University, Assistant Professor (2 year appointment)
- Birgit Schmook -El Colegio del la Frontera
Sur, Chetumal, Mexico, Senior Researcher
- Stentor Danielson - Slippery Rock
University, PA, Assistant Professor
(Posts taken by graduates, ABDs, or Alums in 2007; Geography appointment if
not otherwise stated)
- K. Barrett - Mt. Holyoke College (Visiting Instructor)
- J. Brewer - Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change, National
Research council
- I. Chatterjee - Pennsylvania State University
- C. Finney - U.C. Berkeley (Environmental Science, Policy and Management)
- Z. Li - South Dakota University (post doc)
- S. McCandless - Middlebury College (Visiting Instructor)
- S. Pieck – Environmental Studies, Bates College
- X. Rueda - United States Agency for International Development in
Columbia
- G. Schwartz-Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- J. Vadjunec - Oklahoma State University
Geography News
Mary Lawhon (with Jim Murphy as PI) has
received a $12,000 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation research
improvement Grant (#0927837) From the Geography and Spatial Science and
Collaborative Research programs. Her project, Electronic Waste
recycline in South Africa: Transition Management in Practice?, will examine
the efficacy, equity, and sustainability of electronic waste management policies
and practices in South Africa. Details can be found at
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward
Rory Horner won this year's Economic Geography Specialty
Group Best Student Paper Competition at the 2009 AAG Convention in Las Vegas,
NV with his paper "The
emerging geography of India's pharmaceutical firms in the global economy."
Guido Schwarz Has accepted a post with the European
Commission in Brussels. He will be working at the Directorate-General
Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities on the Industrial Relations
in Europe Report, and coordinate the Social Dialogue for the Telecommunications,
Postal Services and Personal Services sectors.
Zunguo Dai received a CHANS Fellowship under the program
“International Network of Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems”
supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation to assist outstanding junior
scholars in attending US-IALE 2009 (the 24th annual conference of the U.S.
Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology), in
Snowbird, Utah, from April 12-16, 2009.
Chris City awarded a Dissertation Fellowship award from the
Lincoln Institute for Land Policy.
Roberta Hawkins awarded a Social Science and Humanities
Research Council of Canada Fellowship.
Neeti received second place in the Spatial Analysis and
Modeling specialty group graduate student paper competition at the 2008 AAGs.
Dominique Werboff awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship for her
proposal for Tourism as a Problem for Development: The Case of Borcay Island,
Philippines.
Matt Huber awarded the Earl Cook Award (for best paper by a
student) by the Energy and Environment Specialty Group, American Association of
Geographers.
Kevin Keenan selected as Fellow of the National Consortium
for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.
Chris City has been awarded an NSF Dissertation grant from
Geography and Regional Science on Land Use and Water Law in the United States:
Seeking Integrated Legal Solutions to the Water Resource Challenges of Suburban
Sprawl.
Jayson Funke received one of two Economic Geography
Specialty Group graduate student research awards for his work on emerging
markets and the financialization of development.
Kevin Keenan has been awarded and NSF (Geog.) Dissertation
research grant on Awareness of Vulnerability to Terrorism in Urban Areas: Social
Network and Mobility Effects in Worcester, MA and New York, NY.
Aaron Pollack has been awarded post tenure
track position at International Cooperation for Development Area of the
Instituto Mora in Mexico City.
Harvey Neo has been awarded an assistant professorship
(tenure track) at the
Department of Geography, National University of Singapore.
Ziying Jiang has been awarded an NSF (Geography)
Dissertation research grant for An Empirically Parameterized Road Extension
Model for the Support of Land Cover Change Modeling.
Anna Cieslik has been awarded an NSF (Geography)
Dissertation research grant for Emigration of Young Professionals in Polish
Cities.
Zhe Li has been awarded a post-doctoral research position in
the Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence at South Dakota
University.
Kirsten Barrett has accepted a one year Visiting Instructor
post at Mt. Holyoke College.
Waquar Ahmed has been awarded the 2007 Asian Specialty Group
Student Travel Award, AAG.
Waquar Ahmed received the 2007 Energy and Environment Specialty
Group (AAG) Cook Award for best graduate student paper.
Chris City has been awarded an SSRC Dissertation Proposal
Development Fellowship.
Susan Aragon has been awarded an NSF dissertation grant.
Beniot Parmentier has been selected as one of only five finalists to
participate in the student paper competition of the GIS specialty group of the
AAG. This selection includes a $500 award to attend the 2007 AAG meeting.
His research concerns improvement in the use of the ROC statistic in GIS.
Matt Huber was awarded a Beeke-Levy Research Fellowship.
Zachary Christman was awarded an NASA Fellowship, 2006-2009.
GISDE News
Bardan Ghimire (GISDE/M.A. student) received third place at the 2008 AAGs for his
paper "Incorporating spatial dependence in random forest classification models".
Oh Seok Kim (GISDE/M.A. student) received second place at the
2008 AAGs for his paper "Contribution of GIScience to Carbon Credit Estimation".
Alicia Simonti (GISDE/M.A. student) received first place in the
2008 AAGs Remote Sensing Specialty Group Paper Competition in Boston, MA.
Safaa Karaki al-Dwaik (GISDE/M.A. '07) won first place in the
First Annual URSIA Paper Competition. In addition, her paper “The Corridor:
Using GIS to Propose Satisfactory Transportation Paths between the West Bank and
Gaza Strip" has been accepted for publication in Arab World Geographer (more...)
|
