Source: Richard Marston, 785-532-6727, rmartston@k-state.edu
Monday, October 15, 2007
K-STATE STUDENTS WIN HONORS AT DIVISIONAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS
MANHATTAN -- Several geography students from Kansas State University earned honors at the recent meeting of the Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers.
At the meeting, Sept. 28-29 in Denver, one K-State student received the $100 first prize for best doctoral paper, while two K-State students received the $100 top prize for best poster.
Based on individual scores in the meeting's Geography Bowl competition, two K-State students qualified to be on the Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Division Geography Bowl team. A third K-State student qualified as an alternate. The national competition will be in April 2008 at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Boston.
Students earning honors included:
Alex Fredericksen, sophomore in geography, Fort Scott, Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Division Geography Bowl team; Jeffrey Neel, doctoral student in geography, Manhattan, and Nichols Graf, master's student in geography, Ogden, both for the best poster, "Channel Change on a Legally 'C'ontested Reach of the Big Blue River in Kansas"; and Mitch Stimers, doctoral student in geography, St. George, Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Division Geography Bowl team.
From out of state:
Brandon Haddock, doctoral student in geography, Springfield, Mo., best doctoral paper, a $100 award, for "Queer Camp: Economic Impact Analysis of an Alternative Tourism Destination in the Missouri Ozarks"; and Jim Wells, doctoral student in geography, Averill Park, N.Y., alternate to the Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Division Geography Bowl team.