A really impressive set of news for this week:

The college held a celebration lunch for the 2017 Huber awardees. I was pleased to be there with Becky Mansfield, along with Kristi Williams (Sociology) and Sam Stout (Anthropology). Dean Jan Box-Steffensmeier presided over the lunch which was also attended by former Deans Joan Huber, Giff Weary, and Paul Beck.

Please join me in congratulating Clark Larsen Chair of the Department of Anthropology, who has been named Distinguished University Professor. He was surprised with the announcement by Provost McPheron at a Chair’s meeting on Tuesday.

Darla Munroe has be asked to join the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Land Programme (GLP) for a three-year term beginning in June.

This Friday Harvey Miller will participate in a science outreach event at the STEAM Factory (400 Rich St.) This is part of the Franklinton Fridays art hop

Dan Sui is in Wageningen, the Netherlands, attending the 2017 AGILE (Association of Geospatial Information Laboratory of Europe) meeting. His keynote speech is on "Geo-information and the emerging precision public health: Towards a new synergy." Dan reports that the Dutch local hosts give everybody a bike in addition to the registration package!

Both Elisabeth Root and Bryan Mark are featured in the current issue of Ascent.

Nice to hear Emeritus Professor Hal Moellering on WOSU 89.7 on Wednesday morning offering some well-framed opinions on the Short North Market. This area is the subject of a proposed major redevelopment action.

We made a number of awards at our special event last Friday; please join me in congratulating the winners:

Gary L. Sharpe Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduates

Jeff Dunkle                                          Cara Gregg             

Donovan Kennedy                           Keith Marion

Rocky Sword                                      Stephanie Witherspoon

The Fenburr Undergraduate Scholarship for Women & Underrepresented Groups

Najla Dorsey

Mia Murray

Ruiyu Tan

Charles C. Huntington Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduate Student Geography Major

Maria Sanchez-Luna

Matthew Schneider

Edward J. “Ned” Taaffe Scholarship (Outstanding Undergraduate ASP Major)

Matthew Campbell

Emily Sambuco

Mary Grace Thibault

Arthur H. Robinson Scholarship (Outstanding Undergraduate GIScience Major)

Mohamed Fasih Ahmed

Ruoran Cheng

Nathan On

Fenburr Travel Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Student

Emelie Bailey                     Bonnie Bounds 

Jiayong Liang                      Laura Rivas

T.R. Lakshmanan & Lata Chatterjee Award

Anurag Mazumdar

Gabriel Zeballos

Rayner Scholarship for Field Work

Ashley Toenjes

E. Willard & Ruby S. Miller Fellowship Award

Hui Kong

We also awarded the S. Earl Brown Outstanding Staff Award to Suzanne Mikos and the Lawrence A. Brown Faculty Fellowship to Kenneth Madsen.

Well done to all the deserving award winners and thanks again to the all the Nominators and Diane, Jens, Caitlin, Mat, Becky and Ed for help with the event.