Matthew G. Bailey Scholarship Award
The Scholarship Committee of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning invites applications for the Matthew G. Bailey Scholarship Award. This fund supports student field work.
The award honors Matt Bailey, a senior geography major killed in a tragic accident in February 1998. Matt was an excellent student, who was working on a minor in Japanese, and spent considerable time in Japan learning its culture and language. He was an active participant in GTU field trips. The scholarship in Matt's name affirms the importance of field work to geographers, and honors the memory of a capable young geographer.
Award(s) will be made to undergraduate and/or graduate students in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University to support field work that will culminate in a B.A., B.S., M.A. or Ph.D. degree in Geography at Arizona State University.
Applicants must submit the following:
- Letter of recommendation:
- Undergraduate - from a faculty member in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU
- Graduate - from the chair of the student's supervisory committee.
- Written proposal not to exceed two pages. It must include project title, problem statement, brief context of the research, methodology, justification of field work for the completion of project, and anticipated significance of the research.
- An estimated budget outlining how the funds of up to $2,000 will be spent. Funds may be used to support travel, lodging and expendable field supplies related to field work.
Within nine months of receiving the award, the student must submit a 1000-word summary of findings to the Scholarship Committee.
Recipients must acknowledge the award in publications arising from the research, and are encouraged to present findings at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning Banquet.
Submit two paper copies of the application to:
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (Attn: Netra Chhetri)
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-5302
Applications must be received in School's main office no later than January 8, 2010.
Announcements of award(s) will be made circa February 29, 2010.
Past Award Recipients
| 2008-2009 | Nick Burkhart (B.S.), "Using Repeat Photography to Visualize Transnational Commercial and Tourist Interaction in San Diego" Emma Harrison (B.S.),"Filling a hole in the global carbon budget: pilot project measuring carbon in desert bedrock" Jennifer Kitson (Ph.D.), "Role of memory on place-making" |
| 2007-2008 | Ann Fletchall, "The Real Orange County: Place-Making in a Mediated World" Liz Ridder, "The Effects of Political Division on Land Use/Land Cover and Biodiversity in Cyprus" Mariela Soto-Berelov, "Determining Bronze Age Human – Environmental Interaction through Vegetation Modeling in the Southern Levant (3600 – 1200 BC)" |
| 2006-2007 | Lawrence Joseph - “Location Factors and how they Affect the Sales of Quick-Service Restaurants” John C. Finn - “Rumba to Samba: Parallel Musical Development in Latin America” Stephanie Deitrick - “An Evaluation of the Influence of Experience on Information Control and User Comprehension of Uncertainty Visualization” |
| 2005-2006 | Marissa Smith - “Peri-urban Expansion in Mexico: A Gendered Perspective on the Drivers of Land Use Land Cover Change” Olivia T. Montalvo - “Memorialized Landscape for the Murdered and Missing Women of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico” |
| 2004-2005 | Jason L. Kelly - “Emerging Hispanic/Latino Communities in the Valley of the Sun” Jennifer Peters - “Roles of Parks in the Mexican Immigrant Community” |
| 2003-2004 | Eve Ng - “Tourism-Stimulated residential migration” Brendan Yuill - “Ephemeral stream channel adjustments to an introduced perennial flow” Tim Collins - “Human ecological change and vulnerability on Arizona’s Mogollon Rim” Gabriel Judkins - “Patterns of NAFTA induced land use change in Mexican Agriculture” |
| 2002-2003 | John Douglass - “Looking for a lake to explain Grand Canyon incision” Daniel Gilewitch - “Tank track scars on desert pavement: An analysis of soil compaction, moisture infiltration, and desert pavement regenerative processes” Matthew Lord - “Exploration of a novel technique for examining landscape change: A panoramic digital rephotography study of Laveen, Arizona” Rob Murray - “Crucial factors in the growth and decline of boom towns in Arizona and Texas” |
| 2001-2002 | Richard Somers - “Comparison of oblique aerial photographs of north-central Arizona” Mariela Soto - “Land-use history and change in agricultural lands in the northern Puerto Rico karst” Matthew J. Taylor - “Linking Population, Social Capital and the Environment: Firewood Management in Post-Conflict Guatemala” |
| 2000-2001 | Kenneth Madsen - “Crossing A Nation Divided: The O’oham And The U.S. - Mexico Border” Julie Sherman - “Biogeography and Dispersal of Indigenous Fijian Plant Species by Birds and Fruit Bats” Jean Ann Rodine - “Historical Maps of the Yaqui” |
| 1999-2000 | Manfred Muller Paul Mannion Julie Sherman Maren Curtis |