Don Mitchell
Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to lecture on political and people's geographies in the Institute of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo.

Mark Monmonier
Presented "Cartographies of Surveillance: Unprecedented Challenges to Locational Privacy"; at the 2002 meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society in Columbus, Ohio.

Co-author of "Exploratory Essays: History of Cartography in the 20th Century"; in the special issue of Cartography and Geographic Information Science.

Author of Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy published by the University of Chicago Press.

Tom Perreault
Awarded a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Fellowship for field research in Bolivia during the academic year 2003-2004. The title of Tom's research project is, “State reform, political mobilization, and indigenous territories in the Bolivian highlands.”

David Robinson
Received the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG) "Outstanding Service Award", 2002.

Awarded a Diploma of Recognition from the General Secretariat of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History for his translation of the Institute's webpages.

Presented "Designing a Webpage for National Sections and the PAIGH Geography Commission" at the 36th PAIGH Directing Council, Aguascalientes, Mexico, November, 2002.

John Western
Selected to receive the Association of American Geographers Distinguished Teaching Honors for 2003. John was awarded for his "excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching, his passion for geographic learning, and his inspiration as a mentor for future geographers."

Accomplished the extremely difficult "spring a radio antenna off a raising parking gate while not touching the gate with another part of the car" feat. On his birthday, no less! Since there were no witnesses, an artist's rendering of the account must suffice.

Geography major Katherine Easterly won one of the university's three Clements Internship Awards, of $3190, to do fieldwork in South Africa for her Honors Program senior thesis on current housing policy there. This Honors thesis, supervised by John Western, gained the "Honorable Mention" in the university's Social Sciences competition. She also received the Chancellor's Citation for Community Service, only one individual award being given, for her work with a Syracuse Housing Association.

Doctoral Candidate Richard Van Deusen has gained both a Fulbright Fellowship and a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. Richard is currently in Paris working on "The Image Technicians: Urban Designers and the Production of Public Space in Belleville, Paris."

At the September 2002 national meetings of CELA (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture), Doctoral Candidate James Ketchum won the best student paper award. The title of the paper was "War & Traces of War: Recent Contemporary Art, New Cultural Landscapes, & the Clash of Civilizations".