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ASSOCIATION of AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS
2009 West Lakes Division Annual Meeting
OCTOBER 29 - 31, 2009
Macalester College Geography Department
Saint Paul, Minnesota
STUDENT PAPER PRESENTATION
COMPETITION WINNERS
Ph.D.
First Place - Sherry Shen,
University of Michigan - $250
Do Accessibility Measures Undermine the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis?
Second Place - Kyle Walker, University of Minnesota - $125
The Geographical Dynamics of Political Polarization In Metropolitan Minneapolis-St. Paul
Ph.D. Honorable Mention
Ian Muehlenhaus, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
How They Lie with Maps: Classifying Political Cartographic Manipulations
Ed Miller, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Nowhere to go but...”: Gambling on Gentrification in Elgin, Illinois
MA/MS
First Place (tie) - Siqin Wang,
Northern Illinois University- $150
The Change of Spatial Influence Scope in Zhengzhou City
First Place (tie) - Shane Strope, Illinois State University - $150
Midwestern Hydrology Associated with the 2008 Warm-Season Floods
MA/MS Honorable Mention
Jessica Hayes, Northern Illinois University
Community Gardens of Chicago Neighborhoods:
The Role Community Gardens Play in the Local Food System
Emma Volz, South Dakota State University
Battle Creek Watershed: A Watershed Update of the National Wetlands Inventory
Undergraduate
First Place - Stone Cha, Macalester College - $100
Preventing Gun-related Youth Violence in Northside Minneapolis;
Descriptive and Analytical Epidemiology
Second Place - Patrick Malloy, Macalester College - $50
The Political Economy of Affordable Housing Development in
Suburban Hennepin County, Minnesota
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Laura Eash, Macalester College
Lifting Gridlock in Milwaukee: The Potential Effects of Bus Rapid Transit Implementation
Matt Adams, Lakehead University
Biogeography of Epilithic Lichen on a Sandstone Outcrop in the Thunder Bay Region
The Macalester College Geography Department is pleased to host the 2009 Annual Meeting of the West Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers. You are cordially invited to join us in St. Paul, Minnesota for a full program of paper and poster presentations, plenary speakers, student paper competitions, and social receptions.
The program committee welcomes papers on any topic in geography or allied disciplines. Organized sessions are also welcome. Membership in the Association of American Geographers is not mandatory for participation in or attendance at this meeting. We strongly encourage student participation.
Note: Online registration is now closed, only on-site registration is available at a rate of $130.00
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For further information, please contact:
Laura Smith
Geography Department
Macalester College
1600 Grand Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55105-1899
Tel. 651.696.6505
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