Alumna Lisa Murawski (MA, Spring 2007) has been awarded the AAG’s Transportation Geography Specialty Group’s Master’s Thesis Award. According to their web site, “Each year, the TGSG awards at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers two prizes for outstanding student research in the field of transport geography. The first prize is for a Ph.D. dissertation, while the second is for a Master thesis.” Both awards come with an honorarium of $250 which will be presented at the AAG Annual Meeting in Boston on April 16. Lisa’s thesis was titled “A maximal covering network improvement problem (MC.NIP): Designing rural transport networks for accessibility to health care facilities”; her Chair was Rick Church, and Stuart Sweeney and Kostas Goulias were on her committee. For more about the award, see .
