Brown Day 2016

The annual GES Brown Day celebration was Friday, April 22. The day included student posters and presentations in the morning and early afternoon, followed by the Ralph H. Brown Memorial Lecture, Modeling Land-Change Processes Across Disciplines and Scales, presented this year by Professor Dan Brown of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.

GIS at UMN featured in Esri video

Esri, builder of ArcGIS - the most powerful mapping software in the world, recently released a video featuring University Services of the Twin Cities campus.  The film, which includes past and present MGIS students and faculty, shows how U Services utilizes GIS for asset management.

GES student receives NSF

GES Doctoral Fellow, Jessica Finlay, was recently awarded the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the Division of Geography and Spatial Sciences.  This grant will help her continue analysis of individual, household and neighborhood-level factors affecting the health and well-being of older adults.  Congratulations Jessica!