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  • 10/08/2009 | Grants Awards and Honors
    Dr. Alan Murray was awarded a subcontract of Dr. Michael Cudnik's American Heart Association grant to provide spatial data management support and processing, as well as contribute to GIS based spatial...

  • 09/14/2009 | News
    The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) recently funded a collaborative research project between the GeoDa Center and the

  • 09/03/2009 | Grants Awards and Honors
    The National Science Foundation awarded a $250,000 research grant to Professors Alan Murray and Serge Rey of the GeoDa Center and colleagues Professors M. Griffin and T. Grubesic to work on Spatial Analytical Framework for Examining Sex Offender Residency Issues over Space...

  • 06/20/2009 | News
    The GeoDa Center is proud to welcome Pedro Vasco Amaral as an affiliated scholar. Pedro will also join the Center as a visiting Ph.D student (2010-11) from the University of Cambridge that he will join this fall. He has been a researcher at the Centre of Regional Planning...

  • 03/25/2009 | News
    The GeoDa Center welcomes Dr. Myrna Sastre Gutierrez, a Postdoctoral Researcher with CONACYT (Mexico's funding institution for science and technology), for a one-year postdoc stay. Dr. Sastre Gutierrez will be working with Dr. Sergio Rey on the Spatial...

  • 01/30/2009 | News
    Associate Professor Soe Myint has been elected as President of the Southwest U.S. Region of the American Society for...

  • 01/20/2009 | News
    Dra. María del Carmen Mendoza Arroyo of the School of Architecture (ESARQ)'s Department of Urbanism at the Universitat Internacional de...

  • 01/20/2009 | News
    The New York Times recently featured the open source programming language R, which is also widely used by spatial analysts. R's spatial projects R-Geo are...

  • 01/20/2009 | News
    The GeoDa Center welcomes Donna J. Peuquet, Professor of Geography, Penn State University, visiting at ASU for her spring 2009 sabbatical. Her research falls into the broad category of GIScience with specific interests...

  • 12/01/2008 | News
    The GeoDa Center continues to grow in a hiring spurt of top-notch talent. In the last month, two computer scientists joined the Center, Dr. Mark McCann and Andrew Winslow. In addition, the Center is proud to welcome the spatial econometrician 

  • 11/27/2008 | News
    The GeoDa Center is home to the editors of the International Regional Science Review and the Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences (

  • 11/27/2008 | News
    Luc Anselin, Ibnu Syabri, and Youngihn Kho (2005). GeoDa: An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis. was the most cited and most read article published in...

  • 11/26/2008 | News
      2004 RSA Fellow Award Luc Anselin received a fellow award for his contributions to regional science at the 2004 Regional Science Association Meeting in Seattle...

  • 11/26/2008 | News
    Luc Anselin presented the opening keynote address to the Second World Conference of the Spatial Econometric Association in Brooklyn, NY, Nov 18-19. Other GeoDa Center members who presented papers at the conference include...

  • 11/26/2008 | News
    Dr. Nancy Lozano-Gracia's dissertation "Spatial Dimension of Economic Valuation: A Comparison of Hedonic Models" won an honorary mention prize from the Regional Science Association...

  • 11/18/2008 | Grants Awards and Honors
    The GeoDa Center is delighted to announce that computer scientist Andrew Winslow will join the Center in early December from Boeing. Andrew's prior research includes new network algorithms that he is presenting at the 55th Annual North American...

  • 11/17/2008 | Grants Awards and Honors
    The GeoDa Center extends its collaboration with ASU's Decision Center for a Desert City to help spatialize its watersim project. ...

  • 11/15/2008 | News
    The GeoDa Center is excited to announce that Dr. Mark McCann, who earned his PhD in computer science from Princeton University, has joined the Center. Mark's initial projects include OpenGeoDa (which he will present at the 2009 Association of American...

  • 10/23/2008 | News
    The Environmental Systems Research Institute recognized ASU's School of Geographical Sciences and its GeoDa Center for Geospatial...

  • 10/10/2008 | News
    Dr. Nancy Lozano-Gracia, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the GeoDa Center, and Foundation Professor Luc Anselin received a grant from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to assess and improve methods to valuate property and land by spatial...

  • 10/10/2008 | News
    Dr. Nancy Lozano-Gracia, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the GeoDa Center, and Foundation Professor Luc Anselin received a grant from the Unidad Administrativa Especial de Catastro Distrital in Bogota, Colombia to support the improvement of...

  • 10/03/2008 | News
    Luc Anselin and Nancy Lozano-Gracia won the "2006/07 Empirical Economics Springer Prize" for best paper in the journal Empirical Economics. Their winning article, “Errors in Variables and Spatial Effects in Hedonic House Price Models of Ambient Air Quality,” appeared...

  • 10/03/2008 | News
    Soe Myint has been elected to the post of Vice President for the Southwest US Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) for 2008. He had previously served as Regional Director and Membership Chair, and has spearheaded creation of an ASU student chapter of...

  • 10/03/2008 | News
    Dr. Soe Myint recently received an AITAA (Asian Institute of Technology Alumni Association) Distinguished Award for Academic and Research Excellence. The award was presented by General Dr. Boonsrang Niumpradit, President of AITAA at the AITAA annual meeting at Asian Institute of...

  • 10/03/2008 | News
    On December 13, 2007, Foundation Professor and Director, Luc Anselin was invited to submit a full proposal and subsequently received a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, IL. In his project, entitled ‘A...

  • 10/03/2008 | News
    Professor Emily Talen earned this year's Chester Rapkin Award, which recognizes the best article to appear each year in the the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER). The award-winning article, "New Urbanism, Social Equity, and the Challenge of...

  • 10/03/2008 | News
    According to Science Direct, a recently-published single-authored manuscript by Associate Professor Soe Myint is one of the "top 25 hottest articles" in its discipline. The "

  • 10/03/2008 | News
    The Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration has just notified Professor Sergio Rey that they will fund proposed research dealing with improved spatial analysis tools to examine urban economic development. The project will be carried out in the GeoDa...

  • 10/03/2008 | News
    This summer the College of Liberal Sciences launched a new alumni publication, Social Sciences at ASU. Two of the inaugural newsletter's seven feature articles focused on geographers. The 

  • 06/29/2008 | News
    In the photo below, GeoDa Center Director and Foundation Professor Luc Anselin seals a collaborative agreement with Dr. Ir. Djoko Santoso, President (Rector) of Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)...

  • 04/29/2008 | News
    On April 29, 2008, the National Academy of Sciences announced its election of Luc Anselin, Foundation Professor and Director of the GeoDa Center and the School of Geographical Sciences (SGeos). Dr. Anselin...

  • 04/14/2008 | Grants Awards and Honors
    On December 13, 2007, Foundation Professor and Director, Luc Anselin was invited to submit a full proposal and subsequently received a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, CERL, in Champaign, IL. In his project, entitled ‘A...

  • 04/14/2008 | News
    Dr. Murray is currently Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis and Professor of Geography at The Ohio State University. He will be in residence at ASU effective Fall 2008. His research interests...

  • 04/14/2008 | News
    Dr. Sergio Rey Dr. Rey is currently Chair of the Department of Geography at San Diego State University. He will be in residence at ASU effective Fall 2008. His research interests include: Integrated...

  • 02/19/2008 | Grants Awards and Honors
    Julia Koschinsky, currently a visiting scholar at ASU and affiliate of the GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, was named as this year's "Outstanding PhD Student" in her home institution, the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois,...

  • 02/19/2008 | News
    The April 10 issue of Nature features an article on Professor Billie Lee Turner II, who will arrive in Fall 2008 to become the Gilbert F. White Chair in Environment and Society in the School of Geographical Sciences. The article describes the evolution of Turners' research and his...