BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH––MAX LU  
Email: maxlu@ksu.edu

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Education

B.S.            Hangzhou University, Department of Geography, China, 1983.
            M.S.           University of Science and Technology of China, 1986.
  
         Ph.D.          Indiana University, Department of Geography, 1996.

 

Professional Positions

Associate Professor        Kansas State University, Department of Geography, August 2002-present.

Assistant Professor         Kansas State University, Department of Geography, August 1996-August 2002.

Research Analyst            Indiana University, Indiana Business Research Center, 1996.

Assistant Researcher       Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1986-1989.

 

Professional Memberships

Association of American Geographers (AAG).
            Population Association of America (PAA).
            Regional Science Association International (RSAI).
            International Geographical Union, Commission on Modelling and Geographical Systems.
            Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Systems (CPGIS).
            Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU)

 

Grants and Awards

Kansas Department of Health and Environment, May- July 2001, “Kansas Action Targeting System,” $7,447 (PI, with John A. Harrington,Jr.).

Fellowship to Attend a Workshop on An Introduction to Spatial Pattern Analysis in a GIS Environment, Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, August 2000.

US Environmental Protection Agency, June 2000, “Kansas Water Quality Action Targeting System 14 Regression Analysis Training,” $8,365 (PI, with John A. Harrington, Jr.).

National Science Foundation, August 1, 2000 - July 31, 2005, “Infrastructure to Develop a Human-Environment Regional Observatory (HERO),” $290,000 (with Douglas Goodin, John A. Harrington Jr., Lisa M.B. Harrington, David E. Kromm, and Stephen E. White).

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Doctoral Research Grant - $15,000, 1994.

Indiana University, STARR Fellowship, 1992-1993.

 

Five Relevant Publications

Max Lu. “Are Pastures Greener? Residential Consequences of Migration.” Accepted for publication by the International Journal of Population Geography.

Max Lu. 1999.    “Determinants of Residential Satisfaction: An Analysis Using Ordered Logit Models,” Growth and Change 30: 264-287.

Max Lu. 1999. “Do People Move When They Say They Will? Inconsistencies in Individual Mobility Behavior,” Population and Environment 20:467-488.

Max Lu. 1998. “Analyzing Migration Decision Making: Relationships Between Residential Satisfaction, Mobility Intentions and Moving Behavior,” Environment and Planning A 30: 1473-1495.

Max Lu. 1997.“Spatial and Temporal Patterns of County-Level Migration: Is the Rebound Continuing?” Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conference 20: 11-19.

 

Five Other Publications

Max Lu. Dynamic Analysis of Geographic Processes Using Vector Autoregression (VAR). Accepted by Geografiska Annaler,Series B: Human Geography.

Max Lu, Enru Wang. Forging Ahead and Falling Behind: China's Changing Regional Inequalities in the Era of Reform.  Forthcoming in Growth and Change.

Max Lu, John Harrington, Jr. 2001(forthcoming). KATS: A GIS-based Spatial Decision Support Tool for Water Resource Management in Kansas. Forthcoming in Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conference, volume 24.  

Enru Wang, Max Lu. 2000. Economic Reform, Open-door Policy and Changes in Spatial Development Patterns in China.  Journal of Chinese Geography, 10(4): 300-312.

Zuping Weng, Max Lu. 1997.  Monitoring Soil Erosion in the Loess Plateau of China: A Photogrammetric Method.  Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conference 20: 281-285.

 

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