Congratulations to undergraduate GIS major, Ruoran Cheng, on receiving the prestigious Research Scholar Award offered by the Undergraduate Research Office at Ohio State. The citation is especially inspiring: “With these awards, you have been recognized as a person who has the potential to make a substantial contribution to whatever endeavors you select throughout your life, and I hope you accept these awards in the spirit of that high praise.” 
Ruoran is advised by Dr. Daniel Sui. He will be conducting research aimed to integrate GIS with a digital biographical database constructed by researchers at Harvard to analyze historical data on Wang Anshi’s reform during the Song Dynasty in China.