Education Tidbits
Nicole Minni, a policy specialist in the University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA) in the College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy, took her third first place honor in five years at the 2009 Towson University Geographic Information Systems (TUgis) Conference on March 18.
Her winning poster in the professional map category is titled “A Digital Based Watershed Atlas for Sussex County, Delaware.” One reason she keeps winning? The prize is a free registration for the following year’s conference!
- UDaily
Students in the advanced GIS class at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse got a chance to create a map for the town of in Caledonia, MN’s barn quilts (those are quilt patterns painted on barns. The project is detailed on the town website and the final PDF map, aimed at tourist is available for download. The town are about 20 miles apart.
Virginia Tech’s enterprise GIS launched. It’s “online presence for the newly created Enterprise GIS Research and Development Administration group within IT, and contains information, tutorials, tools and software geared towards the needs of university researchers, administrators, and related partners interested in integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis or visualization tools into their activities.”
