Geography PhD students win GIS Project Competition during UWM GIS Day

PhD students, Yang Song and Wei Xu, received first and second places of the Graduate Student GIS Project Competition during UWM GIS Day activities on November 18, 2015.

Yang Song’s paper is titled “Examining the impact of neighboring environment on surface urban heat island effect.”

Wei Xu’s paper is titled “The relationship between socioeconomic contexts and Alzheimer’s disease mortality in the contiguous United States, 2000-2010: an ecological analysis.”

  • Yang Song

    Yang Song

  • Wei Xu

    Wei Xu

Congratulations!

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