Virtual Internships and other Education GIS News
According to a recent BusinessWeek article, an increasing number of students are participating in virtual internships where they connect with their employer through the internet. Frequently, these opportunities are offered by small startups; however, experts say even larger companies are beginning to search for virtual interns, or e-interns. The U.S. State Department, for example, launched the Virtual Student Foreign Service, which helps students find online internships at State Department domestic offices and diplomatic posts abroad.
Goegraphy matters less for internship. I wonder if GIS shops more likely to go virtual?
Mystic Seaport announced Jeffrey J. Dunn will join the Museum as the new supervisor of the Treworgy Planetarium. He's now a GIS Analyst at UCONN working on his PhD. And, he's a contributor to Very Spatial.
A Czech academic is leading efforts to draw up a new map of city centers, not according to their official names but rather based on the commonly understood slang names to have often survived for centuries in spite of the “proper” titles.
Jaroslav David, who teaches Czech studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Ostrava in the east of the country, has led a team which has completed the first part of a four year project funded by the Czech Ministry of Culture.
- Czech Position (great name!)
