The Department of Geographical Sciences gathered to celebrate, virtually, the Annual Geographical Sciences Awards Ceremony on May 12th, 2021. While the ceremony looked a bit different this year, the Zoom celebration, coordinated by Erin Jacobs and Amanda Hoffman-Hall, honored over 100 faculty, staff, and students for everything from achieving academic milestones, to earning prestigious fellowships, to being awarded national and regional honors. Additionally, the Department presented over 30 of our own awards. Departmental Award Winners are listed below. Congratulations to all honorees! 

A full video of the ceremony can be found on our Department's Facebook page. 

Excellence in Graduate Research, 3rd Place: Andres Santamaria Artigas, Ipstia Kumar & Zhiyue Xia

Excellence in Graduate Research, 2nd Place: Rachel Lamb & Yu Xin

Excellence in Graduate Research, 1st Place: Lei Ma

Jingli Yang Geographical Sciences Summer Research Fellowship: Jamis Bruening

Human Dimensions of Global Change Geographical Sciences Summer Research Fellowship: Rebecca Trialdi & Guangxiao Hu

GIS Geographical Sciences Summer Research Fellowship: Zhiyue (Luna) Xia

Brian R. Melchior Endowed Research Fund: Zihan Chen and Marie Panday

Graduate Student Appreciation Award: Mengyu (Amber) Liang and Ipsita Kumar

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant: Jeffery Sauer

Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant: Andres Santamaria Artigas

Robert A. Harper Undergraduate Writing Award: Peter Fath

Undergraduate Independent Research Award: Campus Forest Carbon Project Team, Maddy Albee, Camille Hoffman Delett, Marie Panday, and Hilary Sandborn

Highest Undergraduate Geographical Sciences GPA: Kurt Willson

Highest Undergraduate Environmental Science & Policy GPA: Laura Exar

James R. Anderson Award, for outstanding performance as an undergraduate student in Geographical Sciences: Hilary Sandborn

Outstanding Master of Science in Geospatial Information Science Student: Ghermay Araya

Outstanding Master of Science in Geospatial Intelligence Student: Alexander Jonesi

O.E. Baker Award, for outstanding performance as a graduate student in Geographical Sciences: Megyu Liang

Outstanding Faculty Specialist: Christina Justice

Outstanding Post Doctoral Associate: Zhen Zhang

Outstanding Research Faculty: Hannah Kerner and John Armston

Outstanding Instructional Faculty: Micah Brachman

Outstanding Department Chair: Chris Justice :-)