Educational Opportunities
Matthew G. Bailey Scholarship Award
This fund supports student field work. It honors Matt Bailey, a senior geography major killed in a tragic accident in February 1998. Matt was an excellent student, who was working on a minor in Japanese, and spent considerable time in Japan learning its culture and language. He was an active participant in GTU field trips. The scholarship in Matt’s name affirms the importance of field work to geographers, and honors the memory of a capable young geographer.
The Scholarship Committee of the School of Geographical Sciences invites applications for the Matthew G. Bailey Scholarship Award.
Award(s) will be made to undergraduate and/or graduate students in the School of Geographical Sciences at Arizona State University to support field work that will culminate in a B.A., B.S., M.A. or Ph.D. degree in Geography at Arizona State University.
Applicants must submit the following:
- Letter of recommendation.
- Undergraduate - from a faculty member in Geography at Arizona State
University;
- Graduate - from the chair of the student’s supervisory committee.
- Undergraduate - from a faculty member in Geography at Arizona State
University;
- Written proposal not to exceed 2 pages.
- Must include a
project title, problem statement, brief context of the research, how field work is necessary for completion of the project, and
anticipated significance of the research.
- Must include a
project title, problem statement, brief context of the research, how field work is necessary for completion of the project, and
anticipated significance of the research.
- A budget with estimates of how award funds up to $2,000 will be spent.
- Award funds may be used to support travel, lodging and per diem, as well as expendable field supplies related to field work.
Within nine months of the announcement and distribution of the award, the student must submit to the Scholarship Committee a 1000 word summary of findings.
Recipients must acknowledge the award in publications arising from the field work, and are encouraged to present findings at the School of Geographical Sciences Banquet.
Submit six (6) paper copies of the application to:
Director of the School
School of
Geographical Sciences
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-0104
Applications must be received in School’s main office no later than December 14, 2007.
Announcements of award(s) will be made circa March 1, 2008.
| 2006-2007 | Lawrence Joseph -
“Location Factors and how they Affect the Sales of Quick-Service Restaurants” John C. Finn - “Rumba to Samba: Parallel Musical Development in Latin America” Stephanie Deitrick - “An Evaluation of the Influence of Experience on Information Control and User Comprehension of Uncertainty Visualization” |
| 2005-2006 | Marissa Smith -
“Peri-urban Expansion in Mexico: A Gendered Perspective on the Drivers of Land Use Land Cover Change” Olivia T. Montalvo - “Memorialized Landscape for the Murdered and Missing Women of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico” |
| 2004-2005 | Jason L. Kelly -
“Emerging Hispanic/Latino Communities in the Valley of the Sun” Jennifer Peters - “Roles of Parks in the Mexican Immigrant Community” |
| 2003-2004 | Eve Ng -
“Tourism-Stimulated residential migration” Brendan Yuill - “Ephemeral stream channel adjustments to an introduced perennial flow” Tim Collins - “Human ecological change and vulnerability on Arizona’s Mogollon Rim” Gabriel Judkins - “Patterns of NAFTA induced land use change in Mexican Agriculture” |
| 2002-2003 | John Douglass -
“Looking for a lake to explain Grand Canyon incision” Daniel Gilewitch - “Tank track scars on desert pavement: An analysis of soil compaction, moisture infiltration, and desert pavement regenerative processes” Matthew Lord - “Exploration of a novel technique for examining landscape change: A panoramic digital rephotography study of Laveen, Arizona” Murray - undergraduate - “Crucial factors in the growth and decline of boom towns in Arizona and Texas” |
| 2001-2002 | Richard Somers -
“Comparison of Oblique Aerial Photographs of North-Central Arizona” Mariela Soto - “Land-use history and change in agricultural lands in the northern Puerto Rico karst” Matthew J. Taylor - “Linking Population, Social Capital and the Environment: Firewood Management in Post-Conflict Guatemala” |
| 2000-2001 | Kenneth Madsen -
“Crossing A Nation Divided: The O’oham And The U.S. - Mexico Border” Julie Sherman - “Biogeography and Dispersal of Indigenous Fijian Plant Species by Birds and Fruit Bats” Jean Ann Rodine - “Historical Maps of the Yaqui” |
| 1999-2000 | Manfred Muller - Paul Mannion - Julie Sherman - Maren Curtis - |