Student Travel Awards

Student Travel Awards - AAG 2024

The Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers welcomes applications for the annual Student Travel Awards. The SAM specialty group will offer a travel stipend of $250 per awardee to graduate students who plan to travel and present in-person at the AAG Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI in April 2024.

2024 Winners

    • Wanhee Kim (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
    • Yifei Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara)
    • Changwha Oh (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
    • Hao Tian (Texas A&M University)
    • Nemin Wu (University of Georgia)
    • Bing Zhou (Texas A&M University)

Past Winners

2023

    • Kejin Wang (Louisiana State University)
    • Mengya Xu (University of Southern California)
    • Rongxiang Su (University of California, Santa Barbara)
    • Binbin Lin (Texas A&M University)
    • Kyusik Kim (Florida State University)
    • Sabina Bhandari (University of Connecticut)

2022

    • Binbin Lin (Texas A&M University)
    • Changzhen Wang (Louisiana State University)
    • Gyoorie Kim (University of Toronto, Mississauga)
    • Jingyi Xiao (University of California, Santa Barbara)
    • Jiuying Han (University of Utah)
    • Leonardo Calzada (Rutgers University)
    • Providence Adu (University of North Carolina Charlotte)
    • Seonga Cho (University of California, Santa Barbara)
    • Weiying Lin (Texas A&M University)
    • Yu Lan (University of North Carolina Charlotte)
    • Yue Lin (Ohio State University)

2021

  • Ph.D. Category
    • Chenxiao Guo (Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin – Madison)
    • Binbin Lin (Department of Geography, Texas A&M University)
    • Ruowei Liu (Department of Geography, University of Georgia)
    • Mingzheng Yang (Department of Geography, Texas A&M University)

2020

  • Ph.D. Category
    • Connor Donegan (University of Texas at Dallas)
    • Wataru Morioka (Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
    • Yaxuang Zhang (University of Minnesota)

2019

  • Ph.D. Category
    • James Gaboardi (Department of Geography, Florida State University)
    • Paul Jung (Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
    • Nastaran Pourebrahim (Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
    • Honorable mention: Jarnardan Mainali (Portland State University)
  • M.A./M.S. Category
    • Yunlei Liang (Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    • Anna Shadrova (Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Mississauga)

2018

  • Ph.D. Category
    • Alexander Hohl (Department of Geography, University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
    • Jialin Li (Department of Geography, The Ohio State University)
    • Xiaojun Pu (Department of Geography, University of Texas-Dallas)
    • Diane BenBella (Department of Geography, University of Connecticut)
  • M.A./M.S. Category
    • Spencer Elford (Department of Geography, University of Toronto- Mississauga)
    • Katelyn Michelson (Department of Geography, Portland State University)
    • Samuel Owusu-Agyemang (Department of Geography, University of Toledo)
    • Karl Chastko (Department of Geography, University of Toronto)

2017

  • Ph.D. Category
    • Yoo-Mon Park (Department of Geography & Geographic Science, University of Illinois)
    • Young-Long Kim (Department of Geography, Clark University)
  • M.A./M.S. Category
    • Collin Branton (Department of Geography, University of Waterloo)
    • Hongyu Zhang (Department of Geography, Western University)

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