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In its December 2011 Newsletter, the American Association of Geographers announced that Laura Pulido of the University of Southern California and Dawn Wright of Oregon State and ESRI have been named as recipients of the 2012 Presidential Achievement Award. Both scholars have strong ties to UCSB: Pulido is currently a visiting scholar teaching Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice in the UCSB Black Studies Department where she...

Thanks to the generosity of Jack and Laura Dangermond, multiple travel expense awards are available to help qualified undergraduate and graduate students present GIS-related work at conferences and workshops. Calls for applications for Dangermond Travel Scholarships are usually made in August (Aug. 15-22) for the Fall Quarter, December (Dec. 15—22) for the Winter Quarter, and March (Mar. 15—22) for the Spring and Summer...

At some point in your education, you’ve probably been told that it is a grammatical sin to split an infinitive in English composition (as I just did in the title). But where did your 9th grade English teacher or whomever get this rule? It’s not in The Chicago Manual of Style, H. W. Fowler’s A Dictionary of Modern English Usage pooh-poohs the idea, and even the vaunted Elements of Style, while admonishing that...