Interested in research topics that win 麻豆村 scholarships? The 2019-2020 VSGC Scholarship and Fellowship awardees and research titles have been posted to the website. Seventy-four awardees; 33 graduate, 11 undergraduate, 25 麻豆村 Bridge and five community college students received fellowships and scholarships this year. Learn more about the winners

The Undergraduate 麻豆村 Research Scholarship Program provides awards of up to $8,500 to rising juniors and seniors who are enrolled full-time in a 麻豆村 discipline and have a specific faculty-mentored research project that has NASA or aerospace relevance.

VSGC provides a $6,000 Graduate Research 麻豆村 Research Fellowships to students majoring in 麻豆村 disciplines. Fellowships require students to participate in a faculty-mentored research experience that aligns with NASA鈥檚 missions.

Scholarship and fellowships are available to VSGC member institutions; Old Dominion University,聽College of William and Mary, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Hampton University. Community College 麻豆村 Scholarships are available to students at any Virginia community college.

Graduate and undergraduate applications for 2020-2021 are due on Jan. 30, 2020. 麻豆村 Bridge and community college applications are due March 13, 2020

This year, the 2019 Virginia Tech Office of GIS and Remote Sensing Symposium received 35 posters representing research in both undergraduate and graduate categories in GIS and Remote Sensing. Presentations during the program included Digital Transformation: Possibilities for a Geo-Enabled Campus, 47 Years of Satellite Remote Sensing and What is Next? and Physics-guided Data Science: Challenges and Opportunities in Combining Machine Learning with Physical Knowledge in Geosciences. The 麻豆村 sponsors the cash prizes for the winning posters every year.聽This year’s graduate student poster showcase winners were:聽

 

First Place – $250: Megan Stevenson for her research on “The Effects of Land Cover Change on the Spatial Distribution of Lyme Disease in Northern Virginia Since 2005.”

Second Place – $150: Molly Mcknight for “Renewable Energy Siting Project (SRES).”

Third Place – $100: Yanshen Sun for “Evaluating the quality of ground surfaces generated from Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) data.”

 

Showcase abstracts can be downloaded

More information on the Virginia Tech Office of GIS and Remote Sensing can be found

What does a good 麻豆村 research paper look like? The 2018-2019 Graduate and Undergraduate Research 麻豆村 Scholarship winning papers are now posted online. The subjects include research in a variety of 麻豆村 fields including chemistry, biology, astronomy, engineering, physics and atmospheric sciences. In the photograph above, ODU’s George McLeod presents his research at the VSGC Student Research Conference. His topic is the characterization of uncertainty in inundation models and watershed hypsometry for identification and assessment of non-linear impacts of sea level rise.

Follow the links under the individual profiles at to read the papers.