What’s New Among Graduate Students
Posts Awarded
(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
- Jake Brenner- Colgate University, Assistant Professor (2 year appointment)
(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
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 financilization 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.
Guido Schwarz has been awarded an assistant professorship
at the Department of Geography, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
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...)
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