2019-11-20
- Dong Liu (advisor: Mei-Po Kwan) has been selected as a finalist for the 2020 Honors Competition for Student Papers on Geographic Information Science at the 2020 AAG Annual Meeting in April, for his paper "Identification of Refueling Activities Using Space-...
2019-11-19 - The annual salute to geographic information science and technologies highlighted the broad and transformative impacts from the past year. This year celebrated the diversity of GIS applications and the capability of geospatial technologies to bring synergies in research and education across campus. The focus is on the contribution of our students to geospatial data science, geovisualization, and...
2019-11-18 - Lirong Kou (advisor: Mei-Po Kwan) and Fik Winata (advisor: Sara McLafferty) have been selected as Finalists for the 2020 Peter Gould Student Paper Award, presented by the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) of AAG. Lirong's paper: "How Individual Noise Exposure Influences Psychological Stress: A...
2019-11-11 - Congratulations to our 2019-2020 GGIS Fellows! Niyi Adeleye Julia Cogan Anthony Haloulos Benjamin Keats Sarah Lee Yuchieh Lou Samah Quadri Jackie Shon Yiheng Zou...- 2019-11-11 - PhD students Dong Liu (advisor: Prof. Mei-Po Kwan) and Fikriyah Winata (advisor: Prof. Sara McLafferty) and Master's student Sadia Sabrina (advisor: Prof. Bruce Rhoads) have both received the 2019-2020 Schlesinger Travel Grant, awarded annually by the School of Earth, Society, & Environment. Dong and Sadia will attend the...
2019-11-04 - Congratulations to our Fall 2019 Howard Roepke Scholarship recipients! ?Freshman/Sophomore Academic Scholarships Julia Cogan Yanda Meng Mike Qin Jacqueline Shon Yiheng Zhou ?Junior/Senior Research Scholarships Reagan Humphrey (research advisor: Julie Cidell) Benjamin Keats (research advisor: Julie Cidell) Julyssa Morales (research advisor: Julie Cidell) Collin Schuricht...
2019-10-28 - Last weekend, GGIS faculty and students attended the AAG West Lakes Division of the American Association of Geographers 2019 Annual Meeting at the University of Northern Iowa. Congratulations to these PhD students who earned awards in the student paper and poster competitions: Junghwan...
2019-10-28 - The Fall 2019 issue of our annual alumni (print) newsletter has been published! Faculty and graduate students may find a copy in their NHB mailboxes and extra copies are available in Matt Cohn's office (2044 NHB). You can find the list of contents and read it as a PDF on our newsletters page.
2019-10-21 - PhD student Aida Guhlincozzi (advisor: Sara McLafferty) and Geology PhD student Julia Cisneros (Advisor: Jim Best) attended the University of Iowa's Latinx Educational Excellence in the Midwest Conference on October 12th. They presented “Geoscience Camp!: Methods for Introducing Geosciences to Middle School...
2019-10-14 - Prof. Jim Best published an opinion piece in Geographical, the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society: The dangerous state of the world’s large river basins
2019-10-07 - Congratulations to PhD student Lirong Kou (advisor: Prof. Mei-Po Kwan) on winning the 2019 Robert Ferber Dissertation Award! The $2,500 prize, presented by the Graduate College and the Survey Research Laboratory (SRL) recognizes excellence in research survey design. From the award letter: "The selection committee was greatly impressed...
2019-09-30 - Professor Julie Cidell traveled to Montréal on September 25-27 for the Regional Studies Association's North America Conference, where she presented her current work on transportation infrastructure titled "Not Regional Enough: The Illiana Expressway and the...
2019-09-16 - Professor Emeritus Tom Bassett presented an invited paper on cartography and colonialism in 19th century West Africa at the Frontier Forum on Cartographic History, organized by Chinese colleagues at Yunnan University. During a side trip, Tom and his wife Carol Spindel visited the spectacular irrigated rice terraces at Bada in Yuànyàng County.
2019-09-06 - Dave Evensen, LAS News Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of LAS News magazine. Mei-Po Kwan had spent years using research methods that some believed to be incompatible before she stood on a sidewalk in Humboldt Park, Illinois, arming people with daily activity diaries, sound level...
2019-09-02 - April Wendling (BS, 2019, Geography & GIS and ESES) is featured in the Fall 2019 issue of LAS News magazine. She and fellow students conducted a tree census last summer in nearby Trelease Woods.