What’s New among Undergraduate Students
Kelsey Herrington '09 has been named a Mosakowski HERO
Fellow.
Read more.
Laura Merner received a first place Norb Psuty Student Paper
Merit Award (sponsored by the Coastal Marine and Specialty Group) at the 2008
AAGs.
Joseph Fortier (Accelerated MA student) received third place
in the 2008 AAGs Remote Sensing Specialty Group Paper Competition in Boston, MA.
Paula
(Kiviranta) Zimmerman was co-recipient of the 2008 Paul P. Vouras Award
for Outstanding Academic Achievement in the Social Sciences.
Claire Griffin, Boyd Zapatka, and Katherine Willis have been
selected from Clark University to participate in The Polaris Project during
Summer 2008.
The Polaris Project is a National Science Foundation-funded field experience
for undergraduates to take place in Cherskij, East Siberia, focusing on impacts
of climate warming on carbon cycling in the Arctic.
Paula
(Kiviranta) Zimmerman was selected as the 2007 Maxfield Scholarship winner by
Gamma Theta Upsilon, geography's national honor society. The award involved a
$500 stipend.
Paula (Kiviranta) Zimmerman has been awarded the Jefferson Prize for outstanding Junior entering Senior Year.
Kate Del Vecchio wan 1st Place in the Applied Geography
Specialty Group's Undergraduate Paper Competition at the 2007 AAG Convention in
San Francisco, CA.
Joe Fortier won 1st Place in the Remote
Sensing/Cartography & GIS Specialty Group's Student Illustrated Paper
Competition at the 2007 AAG Convention in San Francisco, CA.
Dawn Gedenberg and Nagraj Rao won 2nd Place
in the Water Resources Specialty Group's Undergraduate Illustrated Paper
Competition at the 2007 AAG Convention in San Francisco, CA.
Troy Hill won 1st Place in the Applied Geography Specialty
Group's Graduate Paper Competition with his B.A. honors paper from last year's
graduation at the 2007 AAG Convention in San Francisco, CA.
Paula Kiviranta-Zimmerman won 1st Place in the Applied Geography
Specialty Group's Undergraduate Paper Award, presented by the Urban Geography
Specialty Group, at the 2007 AAG Convention in San Francisco, CA.
Alina Taus, Joanna Plunkett, and
Paula Kiviranta-Zimmerman were elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
Laura Merner has been awarded an REU (Research Experiences for
Undergraduates, sponsored by NSF) in Integrated Environmental Science at the
Environment Science Institute, University of Texas.
Tim Currie has been awarded and NSF Doctoral Fellowship.
Paula Kiviranta-Zimmerman
has won the Urban Geography Specialty Group Glenda Laws
Undergraduate Paper Competition for her paper "Social Justice in the
Multi-Ethnic City: What is the Urban Reality for Immigrants in Sweden".
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