University Consortium for
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In this issue

Officers
Fall 2004
Issue 2 Vol 6
From the President's Desk
UCGIS Executive Director
UCGIS Awards and Grant

Researcher of the Year

Educator of the Year

Young Scholars

Geomedia Award
Upcoming Events

 2004 Summer Assembly in conjunction with GIScience2004, College Park, Maryland, October 20-24, 2004

UCGIS Virtual Seminar, Fall 2005
Reports from Committee Chairs

Research Committee

Education Committee

Membership Committee

Sponsored Projects Committee

Research Projects Committee

Communications Committee

USGS Reorganization

UCGIS News

Report on 2004 Winter Meeting

UCGIS hosted Urban Indicator Workshop

 

UCGIS Educator of the Year

The UCGIS award of “Educator of the Year” is made annually to a person involved in the delivery of GIScience education. Criteria for the award are as follows:

  1. Excellence in teaching GIScience courses;

  2. Supervision of graduate students entering careers in GIScience education and research and GIScience related professions;

  3. Authorship or editorship of significant GIScience textbooks;

  4. Authorship of significant journal articles, book chapters, or monographs concerned with GIScience education;

  5. Leadership in GIScience curriculum development and program design; and Leadership in the development of GIScience education policy in academic and professional organizations.

The Education Committee is pleased to announce that Professor Karen Kemp at the University of Redlands has been selected as the 2004 UCGIS Educator of the Year for her many and important contributions to the GIS education community.

Dr. Karen Kemp  has led a distinguished career that embodies the principles embedded in the philosophy of the UCGIS Educator of the Year award. Her experience over two decades in developing GIS curricula and teaching at UCSB, Vienna, Berkeley, Cambridge and now Redlands has inspired her to bring her lessons learned to the rest of the GIS world in the form of academic papers, glossaries, distance-learning and web-based curriculum, and through numerous other forums. We acknowledge her leadership role in the various NCGIA Core Curricula and the powerful role those materials had in guiding GIS education. Further, she has taken a leadership role in GIS education and with UCGIS. Her nominees stated : “She has been a stalwart leader of the education initiative of the UCGIS, carrying much of the moral responsibility for that organizational goal.”

The Nominations and Awards Committee sends its most enthusiastic congratulations.

The 2004 nominations and award committee consisted of Dr. Keith Clarke of UCSB as past winner, and Dr. Lynn Usery of the University of Georgia, in consultation with UCGIS members and staff.

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