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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced this year’s recipients of Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF), and the UCSB Department of Geography would like to congratulate our own Kate Voss for being offered a fellowship and Michelle Oyewole for receiving an honorable mention. There were over 14,000 applications for this highly competitive program which awarded 2,000 fellowships and 1,992 honorable mentions this year. GRF...

On behalf of UCSB Geography’s STKO lab members Yingjie Hu, Grant McKenzie, Jiue-An Yang, Song Gao, Amin Abdalla, and Professor Krzysztof Janowicz (Director), Yingjie was presented with 2nd prize for a presentation of “A Linked-Data-Driven Web Portal for Learning Analytics: Data Enrichment, Interactive Visualization, and Knowledge Discovery” in the 2014 LAK Data Challenge which was sponsored by the Association for...

A full page ad appeared in six major American newspapers (The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, and USA Today) announcing that the fast food chain Taco Bell has purchased the Liberty Bell. The full text of the ad reads: “Taco Bell Buys the Liberty Bell: In an effort to help the national debt, Taco Bell is pleased to announce that we have agreed to...