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05/03/2009 | In the News
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon recently announced a series of proposals that focus on making Phoenix an environmentally sustainable city while also creating...
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05/01/2009 | Grants Awards and Honors
This month the Maricopa County branch of the NAACP honored Professor David Pijawka with its 2009 Outstanding...
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04/28/2009 | Grants Awards and Honors
In recognition of his excellence in teaching, Professor Ron Dorn has been honored with the College of Liberal Arts and Science's Innovation in Teaching Award. ...
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04/26/2009 | Recent Presentations
At this year's Central Plains Severe Weather Symposium and Weatherfest, President's Professor Randy...
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04/22/2009 | In the News
The American Planning Association is currently featuring Professor Emily Talen's latest book on its web site home page. As described on the site, in Urban Design Reclaimed...
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04/16/2009 | In the News
The April 11 edition of Science News, a biweekly magazine, features Ph.D. candidate Brent Hedquist 's research on urban heat islands. The article describes a project in which Brent Hedquist and colleagues at ASU's Center for Environmental Fluid Dynamics used...
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04/14/2009 | In the News
The April issue of Focus magazine, a science and technology monthly, features Associate Professor Paul Torrens' research on crowd behavior. The story, entitled "The trouble with crowds: The scientists working to prevent another...
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04/13/2009 | Grants Awards and Honors
Professor B.L. Turner II has been selected as an Associate Editor (for Sustainability) of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
PNAS is one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. Coverage spans the biological, physical, and social...
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04/13/2009 | Grants Awards and Honors
Professor M. Pasqualetti has been appointed to the Association of American Geographers' Meridian Book Award Committee. The committee selects one award winner each year, for a book that makes an unusually important contribution to advancing the science and art of geography....
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03/30/2009 | Grants Awards and Honors
Associate Professor Soe Myint has been elected Vice Chair of the Remote Sensing Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. The election took place at AAG's annual meeting, held in Las Vegas March 22-27, 2009.
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03/23/2009 | Recent Presentations
As one of four participants in the Presidential Plenary on the Future of Water, Professor Patricia Gober helped open this year's Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. The session, held as one of the conference's opening events on March 22, explored the future of...
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03/19/2009 | Grants Awards and Honors
ASU's Graduate College selected Geographical Sciences Ph.D. student Johnny Finn as one of this year's Dissertation Fellowship awardees. Graduate College Dissertation Fellowships are competitive...
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02/26/2009 | Grants Awards and Honors
Professor Patricia Gober has been selected to receive the ASU Alumni Association's 2009 Faculty Achievement Research Award. The award is given to one ASU faculty member each year. It recognizes...
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02/21/2009 | Grants Awards and Honors
Tracy Schirmang, a geographical sciences graduate student, has been selected by the SW-ASPRS (Southwest U.S. Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) to receive its 2009 Graduate Student...
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01/30/2009 | Grants Awards and Honors
Associate Professor Soe Myint has been elected as President of the Southwest U.S. Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) for 2009. ASU will...
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01/20/2009 | In the News
Geographer Paul M. Torrens, an associate professor in the School of Geographical Sciences, designs innovative, immersive 3-D computational modeling to help predict crowd behavior. His work was cited in a Jan. 20, 2009, article on the Popular Mechanics Web site titled “How Officials...
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01/16/2009 | In the News
The School welcomes Donna J. Peuquet, Professor of Geography, Penn State University, visiting at ASU for her spring 2009 sabbatical.
Her research falls into the broad category of GIScience with specific interests in...
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01/05/2009 | In the News
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has added a feature on Associate Professor Paul Torrens' research to their web site. The article is the latest addition to their "
