Young Scholars Awards

Five Young Faculty Receive UCGIS Young Scholars Award

Five faculty members have been selected to receive the Young Scholars Award for 2002. The Young Scholars Award, funded jointly by ESRI and Intergraph, provides funding for faculty who have been at UCGIS member universities less than five years to attend the UCGIS summer assembly. Based on a competition where the applicants were evaluated by the Sponsored Programs Committee, on financial need, reasons for wishing to attend the current summer assembly, and a short CV this year's awardees are:

• Dr. Christopher Brown
  Assistant Professor Department of Geography
  New Mexico State University

• Dr. Yongmei Lu
  Assistant Professor Department of Geography
  Southwest Texas State University

• Dr. Soe Win Myint
  Assistant Professor Department of Geography
  University of Oklahoma

• Dr. David Tulloch
  Assistant Professor Department of Landscape Architecture
  Rutgers University

Congratulations to these young GIScience scholars.

Respectfully submitted:

Michael N. DeMers, Ph.D.,
Chair Sponsored Programs Committee
Associate Professor and Head Department of Geography
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001, MSC MAP
Las Cruces NM 88003-8001

Voice: (505) 646-1842 FAX: (505) 646-7430

e-mail: mdemers@nmsu.edu