In the coming age of autonomous vehicles, users may have to pay extra to keep their whereabouts private.
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Alyssa Loyless, Dartmouth class of 2017 Geography/Anthropology major, has received the Fulbright Award to study the peripheral temple sites and cultural features of Sambor Prei Kuk, Cambodia.
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Meifang Li, a visiting scholar to the Geography Department from the Sun Yat-sen University, China, won the first-place of the John Odland Award at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers. This is the award for the Student Paper Competition of the Spatial Analsis and Modeling Specialty Group of AAG. The competition includes both writing and oral presentation. The awarded paper is titled “Agent-based modeling of communicable disease transmissions with real human mobility and disease data”, and was co-advised by Prof. Xun Shi (Dartmouth) and Prof.
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Following the last year she spent studying Swahili in Tanzania as a Department of Defense Boren Scholar, Sydney Kamen ‘19 will be returning to East Africa after being awarded the Davis Peace Prize. The Prize is a competitive $10,000 grant awarded to innovative student-designed peacebuilding programs around the world.
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Steffi supported Reprieve's legal staff through casework assistance and advocacy campaigns for Reprieve's clients detained in Guantánamo without charge. She also worked to connect ex-detainee refugees with support services as part of Reprieve's Life After Guantánamo program. Steffi studied Geography and Public Policy, as well as French and Arabic; with the Geography department, she wrote an honors thesis on medical examinations of refugees.
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