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Dr. Mei-Po Kwan of the Department
of Geography at the Ohio State University has been
selected as the 2005 UCGIS Researcher of the Year. The University
Consortium for
Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), with about 70 US universities
as members, is
dedicated to the development and use of GIS theories and methods.
The UCGIS Research
Award is given to the creator(s) of a particularly outstanding research
contribution
to Geographic Information Science (GIScience). The award statement
of the UCGIS
Research Committee describes Dr. Kwan's research achievement as follows:
"Dr.
Kwan has a strong and varied research program and one of the researchers
who is
asking fundamental questions about the methods of geography and,
as such, is shaping
the field of GIScience. Dr. Kwan's work focuses on the geographical
and temporal
characteristics of people's daily activities, and the impact
of recent social,
economic and political changes on their everyday lives as manifested
through changes
in the geographies of their daily activities. This past year,
Dr. Kwan has been
recognized with the Edward Ullman Award from the Transportation
Specialty Group at
the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver for
her outstanding
contributions to transportation geography. She has also been
recognized as a
Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and
a Huber Fellow at the
Ohio State University - both granted based on her outstanding
scholarship."
Mei-Po is the fourth recipient of this award.
The past three were Reginald Gollege (2002), Max Egenhofer
(2003) and David Mark (2004).
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