Education Tidbits
A UK-based Pakistani student won top honors at the GIS Research UK conference held in April. Muhammad Adnan who works as a computer research officer in the Spatial Literacy in Teaching & Learning (SPLINT) at the Department of Geography, University College London, and is also pursuing a PhD there, was awarded “Best Young Researcher of the Year.” His work focuses on
the integration of real time feeds of a variety of public domain data from multiple and often disparate sources.
- Santa Ynez Valley Union High School science teacher Chip Fenenga was surprised last weekend to receive the California Geographical Society’s Distinguished Teaching Award for his work teaching GIS in the school’s Environmental and Spatial Technologies Program. The school played host to the society’s annual event. A bonus: ESRI “upgraded the school’s Environmental and Spatial Technologies lab with their latest-version software for this conference, which was a donation of more than $75,000.”
The Digital Durham Web site includes U.S. Census data, photographs, personal and public records dating back to post-Civil War Durham and recently added more than 30 newly digitized maps from the city Department of Public Works and university libraries. The Duke-Durham collaboration merges Google Earth technology with historic city maps for use by educators, historians and the Durham community.
