ASU geographers & planners shine at 72nd Annual APCG

ASU Geography and Planning participation in the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers in San Diego, California September 30-October 3 was marked by some thirteen student paper presenters and five faculty participants.

John Finn was awarded the Best Paper by a graduate student for his Advertising, Graffiti, and Representation of a Black City based on his fieldwork in San Salvador, Brazil for his Ph.D. dissertation. Nick Burkhart received an award for the Best Paper presented by an undergraduate for A Photographic Landscape Inventory of Tijuana's Avenida Revolución derived from his fieldwork for his Honor's Thesis. Andrea Garfinkel-Castro was awarded the Margaret Trussell Scholarship from the Women's Network of APCG for her MUEP Thesis project Cultural expression on the landscape: A cornerstone of social sustainability.

Andrea and Geography undergraduate José Maqueda received travel grants from the Mexican American Travel Scholarship program of APCG, and several ASU graduate students received travel grants from the APCG general awards program.

Overall, ASU students performed with distinction and their many contributions to the program were duly noted by faculty and other graduate students during the four day conference.