Friday, July 10. 2009

Education Tidbits

Tamara Davis and Frank Chiachiere are developing a website site that will for the first time combine traffic and incident data from both King County and Washington state onto one map.

Says Seattle-PI: "Their project, developed as coursework in the master's of science in information management program at the University of Washington's Information School, involved systems management, technical wizardry and a fair share of diplomacy."

Davis works in IT for the county and has run into situations where "border" issues mean incomplete transportation maps, which in turn anger citizens.

- Seattle-PI

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $149,909 to the Community College of Aurora (Colorado) for support of the Community College GIS Faculty Institute. The Institute will train CCA faculty across the disciplines in GIS and its use in the classroom. The award is effective August 1.

- YourHub

University of Chicago students and community residents are working on a neighborhood mapping project as part of an effort to assess the health of South Side residents. The grant is from the University of Chicago Medical Center's Urban Health Initiative.

- Chicago Tribune

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