Department of Geography Awards Ceremony was held in the Hodges Auditorium at 3:30pm on April 28, 2016, recognizing the accomplishments and contributions of our undergraduate, graduate, and faculty.
Undergraduate Students
Outstanding Graduating Senior Award:
Elizabeth MacLennan
Michelle Pfeffer Award:
Brooke Pearson
Bruce Ralston GIS Award:
Taylor Tieche
Graduate Students
Gamma Theta Upsilon Excellence Award
Matt Cook
Bruce Ralston GIS Award:
Kyle Landolt
EXCEPTIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT AWARD
Jiaoli Chen
Erik Schmidt 
OUTSTANDING TEACHING ASSISTANT AWARD
Xiaoyu Lu
Sarah Bleakney
Mathew Boehm
OUTSTANDING TEACHING ASSOCIATE AWARD
Matt Kerr
EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT AWARD
Geosymposium Team (Tyler Sonnichsen; Savannah Collins; Matt Kerr; Mathew Cook; Hannah Gunderman; Helen Rosko; Njoroge Gathongo; Brooke Pearson)
Lab Supervisor Team (Lynda Sylvester; Matt Kerr; Maegen Rochner)
STUDENT PUBLICATION RECOGNITION
Alisa Hass Sandhya Nepal Mat Cook Maegen Rochner
Scott Markley Huairen Ye Jiaoli Chen Sarah Bleakney
Xiaoyu Lu Tyler Sonnichsen Jeremy Auerbach Helen Rosko
Vincent Brown Yang Xu Melanie Barron
THE ROBERT G. LONG OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD: M.S.
Scott Markley
THE ROBERT G. LONG OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD: PH.D.
Lauren Stachowiak
Faculty Awards
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award (Undergraduate level)
Neil Conner
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award (Graduate level)
Sally Horn
ABCD Award
Hyun Kim
Ron Kalafsky
Honoring Will Fontanez
Honoring Bruce Ralston
