Attention all engineering students focusing on transportation: the AASHTO GIS for Transportation Symposium will be held March 28-March 30th in Hershey, PA this year. The deadline for students to submit posters for the map gallery is March 18th. Click here for more details on the conference and here for guidelines for poster submissions.
Belated congratulations to Dan Ladd for winning a highly competitive scholarship from the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF). Dan, a 2010 graduate of Lewisburg High School and a summer GIS Student Assistant at Bucknell, was one of only three high school seniors in the nation selected for the scholarship and is currently studying geography at Middlebury College in Vermont. Congratulations, Dan!
Congratulations to junior Civil Engineering student Kelsey Meybin for her award-winning map! Kelsey’s map – “Fire Threat in California” – recently won both the People’s Choice Award for Cartography and the Panel of Judges Award for Communications in Higher Education at the National Council for Geographic Education conference. Congratulations to Kelsey for this tremendous achievement!
