Education Tidbits
Penny Carpenter teaches a course about GIS (Geographic Information Systems) at the Byron Martin Advanced Technology Center in Texas. When she saw no maps of the cases of H1N1 virus in the state, she took the challenge to her students. “Her students began creating color maps on classroom computers showing the Texas counties that had swine flu cases and how many cases have been confirmed.”
The Knight Foundation announced 12 Fellowships for journalists to study at Stanford for the 2009-2010 school year. Among them, a woman who will explore geographically focussed journalism.
“Krissy Clark, reporter, American Public Media, San Francisco. Clark will focus on geographically aware journalism, cataloging available technologies, studying potential new revenue streams and creating models for merging geospatial technology with journalism.”
Note to conference organizers: sounds like an interesting keynoter, eh?
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Geoimage and DigitalGlobe have announced the winner of their competition to witness the launch of DigitalGlobe’s Worldview-2 satellite from California later this year.
Dr. Arko Lucieer from the University of Tasmania won a raffle to watch the launch of DigitalGlobe’s new satellite later this year. The contest was open to those who placed an order for either QuickBird or WorldView-1 satellite imagery from Geoimage, an Australian authorised reseller of DigitalGlobe imagery products. Arko, a lecturer and researcher in Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Science needed imagery of Macquarie Island. I’m sure he’ll weave the trip into his teaching and research.
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In June thirty prison professionals from Saudi Arabia will move to Ada, Ohio to study prison management in a new two year program at Ohio Northern University. The interesting part is curriculum: “Coursework will include American government, GIS (the mapping of crime in a certain area), Prison Policy, Prison Management with emphasis on rehabilitation, parole and prisoner control, and a comparative course to see how Saudi Arabia and the US compare to other countries in prison management.”
