June 2008: Len Kne is the 2008 UMN Minnesota GIS/LIS Scholarship Award winners for graduate students.  Len will represent the University of Minnesota when he competes in the Student Paper sessions at the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium Annual Meeting. Recipients of this award are recognized for the high quality of their GIS-based research and for their involvement in the GIS profession.

May 2008: MGIS student, Len Kne has received a Google Summer of Code grant to work on Mapbender, a project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).  The Google Summer of Code links students with mentors to work on a variety of Free and Open Source projects.  This year 1,125 students were selected to work with 175 projects.  Len will be developing new administration modules for Mapbender, a customizable web mapping application.  Mapbender is a primary technology of Minnesota Interactive Internet Mapping, a web-based application that introduces K-12 and post-secondary students to principles of geography and GIS. See maps.umn.edu for more information.

April 2008: Heather Sander wins a Resources for the Future Joseph L. Fisher Doctoral Dissertation Award for the project "What’s it worth? Improving land use planning through the modeling and economic valuation of ecosystem services."

April 2008: Debs Ghosh wins several AAG awards, including 2nd Place Student Paper Award in the Graduate Student Affinity Group, an Association of American Geographers Travel Award and separate Graduate Research Award via the International Geographic Information Fund, and finally, an Association of American Geographers Dissertation Research Grant.

February 2008: Len Kne, MGIS student, won "Research Project of the Year" from the University of Minnesota Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. Len presented his cutting-edge work building the Minnesota Interactive Internet Mapping (MIIM) Project, which focuses on the development of an internet mapping application that supports a range of educational activities. While MIIM is similar to Google Maps or MapQuest in providing maps, it offers many advantages over other services, including a far broader range of data, interactivity, security, ease of use, customization, analytical capabilities, low resource demands, and sustainability.

December 2007: Debs Ghosh wins an Association of American Geographers Travel Award from the International Geographic Information Fund. She also wins 3rd Place Best Poster Award at the 130th Annual Applied Geography Conference, Indianapolis, IN, and 3rd Place Student Paper Award in the Urban And Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) paper competition.

Spring 2008: HEGIS hosts several classes from EcoEducation and helps out with CLA's College Day. Much of this work centers on the Minnesota Interactive Mapping Project; MIIM is an internet mapping application that supports courses across the K-12 curriculum.

August 2007: HEGIS hosts a Professional Development Institute for thirty Twin Cities teachers in collaboration with EcoEducation.  Lab members presented on the Minnesota Interactive Mapping Project; MIIM is an internet mapping application that supports courses across the K-12 curriculum.

August 2007: HEGIS receives grant from the National Science Foundation. BE/CNH: Understanding the Importance of Weak-Tie Networks in Complex Human-Environment Systems: Ecosocial Feedback in Multifunctional Agriculture. In collaboration with N. Jordan and K. Nelson.

June 2007: HEGIS receives grant from the Office for Public Engagement, University of Minnesota. Strengthening Public Engagement Through a Web-Based Curriculum on Spatial Thinking in Environmental Education.  In collaboration with A. M. McDowell, CLA Outreach Coordinator.

June 2007: Debs Ghosh receives award in the URISA Student Paper Competition

May 2007: HEGIS receives grant from Information Technology Fees Committee, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. Minnesota Interactive Mapping Project. 

April 2006: Adam Berland receives a Geography Summer Fellowship.

May 2007. HEGIS receives grant from the Minnesota Population Center. Development and Application of a Twin Cities Geographic Dataset for Population Research. In collaboration with M. Oakes and M. Orfield.

October 2006: Justin Becknell receives UMN Undergraduate MN GIS/LIS Scholarship Award

September 2006: Steven Manson receives NASA New Investigator in Earth-Sun System Science Award

May 2006: Debs Ghosh receives a 2006 Graduate Research Partnership Program award

May 2006: April Rog receives UROP and McNair Awards

April 2006: Debs Ghosh receives the Best Student Paper Award. Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers.

January 2006: Steven Manson receives McKnight Land-Grant Professorship.

January 2006: HEGIS receives grant from Grant-In-Aid Of Research, Artistry and Scholarship, Office of the Dean of the Graduate School, University of Minnesota. Does Sprawl Beget Sprawl? Urbanization in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, 1990-2005. 

April 2005: Debs Ghosh receives the Best Student Paper Award. Asian Geography Specialty Group,
Association of American Geographers

April 2005: Steven Manson receives UCGIS 2005 Young Scholar Award

October 2004: Mike Engels receives UMN Graduate MN GIS/LIS Scholarship Award

October 2003: Sanjay Rane receives UMN Graduate MN GIS/LIS Scholarship Award