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Geography
Programs
The Graduate School of Geography offers a major, minor and electives for undergraduates and a Ph.D. program. Qualified Clark undergraduates can take advantage of an accelerated fifth year program that leads to a B.A./M.A. in Geographic Information Science. An M.A. in Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment is available through a shared program with the Department of International Development, Community and Environment.

Graduate Fellowships and Grants
1988 to Present

In alphabetical order by fellowship or grant.
(Date of doctorial degree if graduate.)

Association of American Geographers (Cook Award)
Waquar Ahmed
Matt Huber

American Philosophical Society Grant
Ipsita Chatterjee

Antipode Graduate Student Scholarship
Thomas Ponniah (2006)

Asian Specialty Group Travel Award
Waquar Ahmed

Beeke-Levy Research Fellowship
Matt Huber

CIFOR Research Grant
Pablo Balanza Pacheco (2005)

Davis Putter Scholarship Fund for Activist Students
Thomas Ponniah (2006)

EPA STAR (Science to Achieve Results) Fellowship
Kirsten Barrett

Ford Foundation Fellowship
Cecil Alexander Brownlow (2003)
Inbersagren Narsiah (2006)

Foreign Fulbright Fellowship [country]
Emma Archer [South Africa] (2000)
Inbersagren Narsiah [South Africa] (2006)
Thidinalei Tshiguvho [South Africa] (2007)
Ximena Rueda [Colombia]

Fulbright Fellowship
Rheyna Laney (1998)
Eric Keys (2002)
Robin Roth (2004)
Christine Mitchell (2005)
Carolyn Finney (2007)

Fulbright-Hays Fellowship
Aaron Pollack (2005)
Claudia Radel (2005)
Jacqueline Vadjunec (2007)

Fundación Alfonso Martín Esudero
Elia Machado

Geller Award, MARSH Institute
Steven McCauley (2007)
Zach Christman
Crystal Kolden

GeoChron Labs Research Award
Dmitry Varlyguin (2000)

Harvard School of Public Health, Visiting Scientist Fellowship
Stephanie Hulina (2001) 

Horton-Hallowell Fellowship (Wellesley College)
Rinku Roy Chowdhury (2003) 

IDRC Research Grant
Alice Hovorka (2003)
Laila Smith (2003)
Luis Ciro Marcano (2007)

International Foundation for Science (Research Grant)
Luis Ciro Marcano (2007)

International START Secretariat (Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change program)
Chunling Liu (2007)

Institute of International Education BARSA Scholarship
Ximena Rueda

Inter-American Institute Fellow
Eric Keys (2002)

Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, Sea Grant
Jennifer Brewer (2007)

Lincoln Institute for Land Policy (Dissertation Fellowship)
Chris City (2008)

Man and the Biosphere Grant
Yelena Ogenva-Himmelberger (1998)

MIND (Munasinghe Institute for Development) Fellowship
Menzie McEachern (2005)

NASA Earth System Science Fellowship
Emma Archer (2000)
Dmitry Varlyguin (2000)
Davison Gumbo (2002)
Nicholas Haan (2002)
Paul Laris (2002)
Steven Manson (2002)
Phillip Mwanukuzi (2002)
Rinku Roy Chowdhury (2003)
Rebecca Dickson
Zachary Christman

NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award
Ziying Jiang (2007)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Claudia Radel (2005)
Jennifer Brewer (2006)
Angela Dierks (2006)
Ania Cieslek (2007)
Susannah McCandless (2007)
Alexander Pulsipher (2007)
Jacob Brenner
Paul Foley
Lily Ray
Dominique Werboff

National Science Foundation Grants
[unit awarding grant]
Brad Jockish [Geog.] (1998)
Rheyna Laney [Geog.] (1998)
Delphis Levia [Geog.] (2000)
Andrew Schiller [Geog.] (2001)
Rachel Slocum [Geog.] (2001)
Patricia Benjamin [Geog.] (2002)
Eric Keys [Americas-Int. & Geog.] (2002)
Steven Manson [Dec. Sci. & Geog.] (2002)
Rinku Roy Chowdhury (2003)
Alice Hovorka [Geog.] (2003)
Winifred Curran [Geog.] (2004)
Menzie McEachern [Geog.] (2005)
Sarah Niles [Geog.] (2005)
Claudia Radel [Americas-Int. & Geog.] (2005)
Mary Thomas Renaud [Geog.] (2005)
Trina Hamilton [Geog.] (2006)
Sonja Pieck [GRS] (2006)
Christina Hamm [Geog.] (2007)
Minako Kusafuka [Dec. Sci. & Geog.] (2007)
Chunling Liu [Geog.] (2007)
Susannah McCandless [Geog.] (2007)
Stentor Danielson [Geog.]
Cynthia Adom [Geog.]
Susan Aragon [Geog.]
Stephen McCauley [Geog.]
Ziying Jiang [Geog.]
Anna Cieslik [Geog.]
Chris City

Northeast Consortium Cooperative Research Grant
Jennifer Brewer (2006)

Open Society Institute
Zoia Talitskaia (2007)

PERISHIP Fellowship
Mohan Seetharam (2006)
Anna Versluis

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
Davison Gumbo (2002)

Sigma Xi Dissertation Improvement Grant
Anna Versluis

Smartt Fellowship (U. Capetown)
Emma Archer (2000) 

SSHRC (Canada)
Alice Hovorka (2003) 
Robin Roth (2004)
Maya Manzi
Roberta Hawkins

SSRC Fellowship
Patricia Benjamin (2003)
Chris City

SWG Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research

Carolyn Finney (2007)

Switzer Fellowship
Susannah McCandless (2007)

U.S. Community Forestry Research Fellowship
Lily Ray
Cecil A. Brownlow (2003)
Carolyn Finney (2007)
Susannah McCandless (2007)

USGIF (U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation) Scholarship
Chris Lippitt (2006)

University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (Travel Grant)
Steven McCauley (2007)
Zach Christman

 

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