The Department of Geographical Sciences gathered to celebrate, virtually, the Annual Geographical Sciences Awards Ceremony on May 13th, 2020. While the ceremony looked a bit different this year, the Zoom celebration, coordinated by Erin Jacobs and Amanda Hoffman-Hall, honored over 100 faculty, staff, and students for everything from achieving academic milestones, to earning prestigious fellowships, to being awarded national and regional honors. Additionally, the Department presented over 30 of our own awards. Departmental Award Winners are listed below. Congratulations to all honorees! 

A full video of the ceremony can be found on our Department's Facebook page. 

Excellence in Graduate Research, 3rd Place: Aolin Jia, Yao Li, and Qing Ying

Excellence in Graduate Research, 2nd Place: Jiaying He and Kaihui Song

Excellence in Graduate Research, 1st Place: Amy Pickens

Excellence in Graduate Research, Outstanding: Matthew Cooper

Jingli Yang Geographical Sciences Summer Research Fellowship: Xueyuan (Eric) Gao

Human Dimensions of Global Change Geographical Sciences Summer Research Fellowship: Austin Sandler

GIS Geographical Sciences Summer Research Fellowship: Yuntin Song

Brian R. Melchior Endowed Research Fund: Jordan Lloyd and Quan Shen

Graduate Student Appreciation Award: Jack O'Bannon and Ipsita Kumar

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant: Kelly Anderson, Matthew Cooper, Kelly Cortney Gustafson, Rachel Lamb, Jiaming Lu, Jinyi (Sherry) Ma, and Jose Luis Villaescusa 

Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant: Allison Baer and Lei Ma 

Robert A. Harper Undergraduate Writing Award: Kurt Willson

Undergraduate Independent Research Award: Campus Forest Carbon Project Team, Rieley Auger, Hilary Sandborn, and Jordan Nicolette

Highest Undergraduate Geographical Sciences GPA: Quan Shen

Highest Undergraduate Environmental Science & Policy GPA: Christina Garvey

James R. Anderson Award, for outstanding performance as an undergraduate student in Geographical Sciences: Ariel Golightly

Outstanding Master of Science in Geospatial Information Science Student: Lan Song

Outstanding Master of Science in Geospatial Intelligence Student: Robert Burns

O.E. Baker Award, for outstanding performance as a graduate student in Geographical Sciences: Amanda Hoffman-Hall

Outstanding Faculty Specialist: Brian Barker and John Keniston 

Outstanding Research Faculty: Hao Tang

Outstanding Instructional Faculty: Jonathan Resop