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Student/Faculty Spotlight

This Spring We Feature Our Two Visiting Scholars Haiqi Wang and Mouhaman Arabi As Well As Our Faculty Member Morton O'Kelly and Graduate Student Austin Kocher:

Haiqi Wang:

One of our visiting scholars this Spring is Dr. Haiqi Wang from the China University of Petroleum at Qingdao. Haiqi received his Ph.D. degree in GIScience from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. Haiqi is currently an associate professor in the College of Geo-resources and Information and his major research interests include spatial statistics, spatial optimization, and spatial data mining algorithms. He will be with us until September. His office is Derby 1120. Please stop by to visit Haiqi, he will be excited to talk to you!

News and Events

• Darla Munroe Associate Editor of Geographical Analysis:
  

  Darla Munroe, associate professor, geography, has recently been appointed as an Associate Editor for the journal of Geographical Analysis - an internationally renowned outlet for theoretical geography, spatial analysis and modeling. Congratulations Darla.
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• 2012 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum Results:
  CONGRATULATIONS to Sara Santiago and Paul Soltesz for their 3'rd place finishes at the 2012 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. The Dept. is very proud of the 7 undergraduate submissions to the Denman this year and we encourage current and future undergrads to consider doing a Denman project. Let it also be mentioned here that Geography professor Kendra McSweeney received the Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor (DURM) Award at this years Denman awards ceremony. Congratulations to all. Read More →
• May 18-19 Geography is co-sponsoring a Symposium on Queer Places, Practices & Lives:
  

  We are pleased to announce that the registration form and program for "Queer Places, Practices, and Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Sam Steward" are available on the symposium website. This two-day conference, to be held May 18-19, at Ohio State features an exciting and diverse array of panels composed of scholars, activists, and students from throughout the U.S. and internationally; lunchtime discussions; plenary panels featuring some of the most prominent scholars in the field; and a keynote by Justin Spring, biographer of Sam Steward, an alumnus of the Ohio State English Department (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., 1927-34). The conference is open to the OSU community as well as the general public, and we hope that you will want to take full advantage of the offerings. Read More →

• Mentor Award for Kendra McSweeney:
  Please join us in congratulating Kendra McSweeney, who just received the Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor (DURM) Award, which will be officially given to her during this year's Denman awards ceremony, Wednesday (5/9) between 4:30 and 5:30 pm in the lower gym at RPAC; the mentor awards are scheduled at the end of the ceremony, tentatively around 5:20 pm. If your schedule permits, please by all means try to attend. Read More →