Koua, MacEachren published in IJGIS
Tuesday, 23 May 2006

Drs. Etien L. Koua and Alan MacEachren have had their paper "Evaluating the usability of visualization methods in an exploratory geovisualization environment," published in the April issue of International Journal of Geographical Information Science. Dr. Menno Jan Kraak from ITC in the Netherlands co-authored.

Etien Koua joins GeoVISTA Center
Monday, 08 May 2006

Dr. Etien L. Koua has joined the GeoVISTA Center as a Post Doctoral Scholar. For the last 2 years Dr. Koua was a Senior Technical Advisor for Tulane University Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer under a Tulane/CDC project in Rwanda, and Acting Chief of the Information Technology and Applied Statistics Unit at the Treatment and Research AIDS center (TRAC) in Kigali, Rwanda. Dr. Koua's interests include information visualization and geovisualization, data mining, knowledge discovery in databases, computational methods for the exploration of large geospatial datasets, and usability and human-computer interaction. Dr. Etien L. Koua will focus on GeoVISTA's GCCM and NCI projects, contributing to the development of geospatial applications for use in public health, crisis management, and other domains.

Dr. Koua holds a PhD in Geoinformatics from the University of Utrecht and ITC in The Netherlands, and a Master of Science degree in instructional systems and technology from Twente University in the Netherlands.

Luc Anselin published in Geographical Analysis
Friday, 10 February 2006

Dr. Luc Anselin, along with Ibnu Syabri and Youngihn Kho, has had a paper, entitled GeoDa: An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis, published int he January issue of Geographical Analysis. Anselin works for the Spatial Analysis Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana.

Anthony Robinson published in C&GIS
Wednesday, 18 January 2006

GeoVISTA's Anthony Robinson, along with Jin Chen and Alan MacEachren, has had a paper published in the journal Cartography and Geographic Information Science. The paper, entitled Combining Usability Techniques to Design Geovisualization Tools for Epidemiology, is the product of collaboration with Hershey Medical Center. The collaborative project, Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis of Cancer Data, is funded through the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute.

Anthony Robinson receives United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation scholarship
Wednesday, 09 November 2005

Anthony Robinson, GeoVISTA graduate affilliate and PhD candidate, received one of nine scholarships awarded by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) this year. Anthony and the other eight USGIF University Scholoarship recipients, which include three PhD candidates, two Masters-level students, and three undergraduates, were formally recognized at a dinner in San Antonio, Texas last week. All of the recipients demonstrated academic and professional excellence in a field related to the geospatial intelligence tradecraft. More . .