UCGIS News

Announcement of New Officers

“Laxmi Ramasubramanian, Hunter College, City University of New York, took over as Secretary from Elizabeth Wentz, Arizona State University in April of this year. Thanks go to Libby for her valuable service to UCGIS.

A-xing Zhu of University of Wisconsin replaced Benjamin Zhan of Texas State University as the Chair of the Research Projects Committee. Many thanks go to Ben for his service to UCGIS.”

New Members

UCGIS now has 70 academic institutional members. We gained four more members at this year's two meetings. The University of Missouri, North Carolina State University and Virginia Tech joined us in February 2005, and Temple University was invited to join at the summer 2005 assembly. We look forward to having them become active members of UCGIS.

Delegates:


MISSOURI-Columbia

Gail S. Ludwig (Geography - Lead)
Curt H. Davis (Engineering)
Timothy L. Haithcoat (Geography - alternate)
Anthony A. Prato (Ag. Econ. - alternate)


NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

Hugh Devine (Professor and Chair Graduate GIS Faculty - Lead)
Steven Morris (Head -Digital Libraries Initiative)


VIRGINIA TECH

Randy Dymond (Civil & Electrical Engineering - Lead)
Kitty Hancock (CE & EE)
Bill Carstensen (Geography - alternate)

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
Jeremy Mennis (Geography and Urban Studies - Lead)
Michelle Massucci (Geography and Urban Studies)
Jeffrey Featherstone (Community and Regional Planning - alternate)