For the last two years, the LENS program at the University of Redlands has offered fellowships to faculty from around the country who are interested in exploring different ways to incorporate maps and spatial perspectives in their teaching and research. The fellowships include a week-long summer institute in Redlands, CA organized around a spatial theme. This year's institute … [Read more...]
Call for faculty interest in summer 2012 GIS workshops at Bucknell (revised)
As we have for the past two summers, Bucknell's LIT division will offer a series of summer workshops for faculty interested in hands-on instruction in GIS. Stipends of $400 will be offered to faculty for participating in each workshop. Please fill out this interest/registration form as soon as possible if you are interested in any of the following workshops. Overview 1. … [Read more...]
GIS in the Classroom: Civil & Environmental Engineering 432
Last summer, Bucknell's administration asked our GIS team to conduct an analysis of parking availability across campus. The project was assigned to Dan Dougherty, Geography/History ’12 and is summarized in Dan's guest post here. This spring, a team of four students in Prof. Michelle Oswald's CENG 432 course, Sustainable Transportation Engineering, are picking up where Dan left … [Read more...]
GIS could help you get into grad school (and get funding!)
In recent posts I've given examples of how GIS can help you find an internship during your undergraduate years (click here to read more) and/or help you land a job once you have graduated from Bucknell (click here, here and here to read more). Having experience with GIS as an undergraduate can also help you get into grad school (and get funding!). Nick Gonsalves, Geography … [Read more...]
GIS Job Opportunities – Summer 2012 paid GIS internship with REU
I've been posting a lot (here, here and here) about GIS job opportunities for Bucknell's class of 2012 - but there are also lots of GIS internships out there for returning students. Are you interested in using GIS for research this summer? Do you want to get paid for it too? If so, you should consider applying to the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program's … [Read more...]