Student Notes

• Association of American Geographers: Student competition winners
  • IDCE is proud to count many winners among our students at the Association of American Geographers student paper competition. In the Illustrated Paper category, Alicia Simonti (GISDE/MA ’08) took First Place for her project Image Time Series Analysis of SeaWIFS Ocean Color Product for the Investigation of Ocean Chlorophyll Dynamics.
  • Classmate Oh Seok Kim (GISDE/MA ’08) took Second Place for his Contribution of GIScience to Carbon Credit Estimation.
  • Neeti Neeti (GISDE/MA ’07) and present Geography Ph.D. student won second place in the Spatial Analysis & Modeling paper competition.
  • Laura Merner (ES&P-Geography/BA ’08) was awarded the Norb Psuty Student Paper Merit Award sponsored by the Coastal Marine and Specialty Group for her paper "Assessing the Role of Salinity and Water Height Levels on the Mortality of Bald-Cypress: an in depth look at the Cypress Triangle, Louisiana."

• Applied Aquatic Ecology
  • The Applied Aquatic Ecology class went to Eagle Lake in Holden to find and identify wetland plants that they had seen in the classroom the week before. View photos here.

• City of Worcester Internships
  • In Spring 2008 semester, Nan Deng (GISDE/MA ’08) will be working as an intern with the City of Worcester. Nan will be assisting the GIS Manager, Shane White, in building a public website mainly for querying parcel information and exploring the relationship between different geographic features. “I'm glad that the GISDE program provides us this internship option that also helps to build a friendly relationship with the City of Worcester.” Also receving an internship with the City of Worcester is Anita Malpani (IDSC/MA '08).

• Tara Arthur (IDSC/MA '08) honored with "Women of Clark" Award
  • Tara Arthur (IDSC/MA ’08) was honored with a “Women of Clark” award this spring. Tara was honored for her tireless work both here at Clark where she is the co-President of the Graduate Student Association and also off-campus where she works with the Haitian Sports Foundation (HSF). The HSF uses sports as a way to empower women in Haiti and also to give back positive attention to the talented people of Haiti. Congratulations to Tara for all her work both here and in the world at large!
    
  
  
• Graduate Students Working as RA's on Immigrant Health Needs Grant
  • Meg Barritt (IDSC/MA ’08) and Jenna Mosely (IDSC/MA ’09) are working as research assistants with Ellen Foley on a grant she acquired from the Central Mass. Health Foundation for an action research project titled “Bridging Barriers: Meeting Youth Immigrant and Refugee Health Needs in Worcester, MA.” They are studying the health, literacy, and after-school program needs among African and Southeast Asian refugee and immigrant youth in Worcester.

• IDSC Undergraduates in the Spotlight for Social Change
  • Erica Richmond (IDSC/BA ’08) participated in an internship at Friendly Haven in Windhoek, Namibia. She was there for four months, assisting the women at the shelter with issues related to their having sustained domestic violence and rape. In light of her dedication to women’s empowerment, she received the Cynthia Enloe Award in 2005, in part for helping to form the women studies major here at Clark.
  • Rachel Gerber (IDSC/BA ’11) has a long history of volunteerism. Among her many pursuits, she has assisted with voting rights for the homeless, food drives in her home community of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Mississippi’s Habitat for Humanity. Her insistence on making the world a better place has earned her title as a “Making a Difference Scholar” for her four years at Clark.