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Department
Accomplishments 2006-07
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Matt Hidek has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation
Research Improvement award from the National Science
Foundation for his study, "Cultures of Security: Military
Tactics and City Planning in Lower Manhattan Since 11
September 2001." Matt was also named one of 10 pre-doctoral
fellows for the 2007-2008 academic year by the National
Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to
Terrorism (START), based at the University of Maryland-College
Park.
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Matt Himley has been awarded a Fulbright-IIE grant
*and* a Fulbright-Hays grant for his dissertation research in
Peru, "Frontiers of Capital: Mining, Mobilization and Resource
Governance in the Peruvian Andes."
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Jamie Winders has been awarded a "Meredith Teaching
Recognition Award" for 2007. This is the most prestigious
teaching award an untenured faculty member can receive.
- Jeremy Bryson's paper "Hazardous Waste on the 18th
Green: Ecological Modernization and the Superfund
Redevelopment Program" was accepted for publication by The
Maxwell Review.
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Ben Mosiane
has won a prestigious research
scholarship from the South African National Research
Foundation (equivalent to the US NSF) to support his
dissertation research.
- Geography major
Veena Muthusamy has been
selected as a National Geographic Society Intern for next
year. She will likely be working in the children and
education department.
- Jim
Newman,
Imperial Footprints: Henry
Morton Stanley's African Journeys has been released in the
French language as STANLEY Entre Couronne et Empire (Luc Pire)
and also in the Dutch language as STANLEY ONTDEKKINGSREIZIGGER
IN AFRIKA (Lannoo). In celebration he was invited to Brussels
by the King Baudouin Foundation for interviews with De Morgen,
De Tijd, Le Soir, Mo-magazine, The Bulletin, and VRT Radio.
Jim also gave a presentation entitled Stanley and the Congo at
the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, where he is a
member of the King Baudouin Foundation's Stanley Archives
Scientific Committee.
- Claudia
Sawyer,
PLACA/Goekjian grant for research
in Mexico. Claudia also a Goekjian Scholar for academic year,
2006-2007.
- Elvin Delgado, has
been awarded a Fulbright-IIE fellowship to conduct his
doctoral dissertation research in Venezuela.
- Sarah Ryman, a
geography minor, has been named a Remembrance Scholar for
2006-07.
- National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) Award for
Excellence in Scholarship: Paul Ronan
- George B. Cressey Award for Excellence in Geography:
Janna Newman,
Thor Ritz
- Preston E. James Award for Excellence in Geography:
Justin Deyo,
David Robbie
- Brenden McNeil has been
awarded this year's Sigma Xi (Syracuse Chapter) Outstanding
Graduate Research Award. Sigma Xi is the national scientific
honorary society.
- Matt Himley has been
awarded a Maxwell Master's Prize. He is one of only two awardees
out of all Masters students in the social sciences and PA and IR
programs. The MA prize goes to truly outstanding students who
have completed their MA over the past year.
- Chelsea Teale won the
best Master's Student Paper Presentation of the Biogeography
Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers at
this year's AAG meeting in Chicago. Her paper was entitled:
"Holey Ground: Geography of Earthworms in the Yukon Territory,
Canada".
- Sarah
Ryman (a geography minor) was recently designated a
Crown Scholar in the Renée Crown University Honors Program. This
is a very prestigious award that recognizes excellence and
originality in undergraduate research. At the same ceremony,
Sarah received an individual Chancellor's Award for Public
Service.
- Paul
Ronan (a geography major) has been recognized as a
Syracuse University Scholar. This designation recognizes
excellence in academic and extra-curricular achievement among
graduating seniors, and is awarded to fewer than 1% of all
seniors.
- Alison
Mountz received a
Faculty Inspiration Chancellor's Award for Public Service.
Department
Accomplishments, 2004-2005
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Accomplishments, 2002-2003
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