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Dear Undergraduate Geography Students:
Geography Department’s 2018 Ralston Speaker, Dr. Dan Sui, will be on campus this Thursday and Friday, February 8-9. Attached is the final schedule of Dr. Sui’s visit with names attached to individual meetings,
escorts, dinners, and other functions. An open meeting with undergraduate and graduate students is scheduled at 12:00 – 1:30 PM on Friday in BGB 416, with pizzas and drinks provided.
Dr. Sui will deliver two presentations and have meetings with faculty and students. You are welcome to attend both presentations. However, please visit
https://workshop.utk.edu/workshopinfo.php?workshop=369 to register for the presentation delivered in Blount Hall 0004 per request from UT Office of Research
and Engagement. Dr. Sui’s two presentations are:
Thursday, February 8, 2018, 12:30 – 1:30 PM:
Dr. Sui’s Presentation at UT Office of Research and Engagement:
Presentation Title: Interdisciplinary Funding Opportunities and Programs at NSF
Location: Blount Hall A0004
(Please visit https://workshop.utk.edu/workshopinfo.php?workshop=369 to register.)
Thursday, February 8, 2018, 3:40 – 5:00 PM (Reception in the Galleria area of Hodges Library starts at 3:15 PM):
Dr. Sui’s Ralston Speaker Presentation as part of Geography Department’s Colloquium Series:
Presentation Title: Mapping the new terra incognita: On geographic research in the age of convergence
Location: Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library
A brief bio of Dr. Dan Sui is included below for your reference:
Daniel Sui is an Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography, Public Affairs, Public Health, and Urban/Regional Planning at the Ohio State University (OSU). Since July 2016, he has been on an IPA assignment
to serve as the Division Director for Social and Economic Sciences (SES) at the U.S. National Science Foundation. Prior his current appointment, Daniel Sui served as Chair of Geography (2011-2015) and as Director of the Center for Urban & Regional Analysis
(CURA) (2009-2012) at OSU. He holds a B.S. (1986) and M.S. (1989) from Peking University and Ph.D. from University of Georgia (1993). His research current interests cover
issues related to robust and reliable practices in spatially integrated social sciences and humanities, human dynamics in smart & connected cities, and location-based social media. Daniel Sui was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow,
2014 Google Faculty Fellow, and 2014 recipient of the distinguished scholar award from the Association of American Geographers. Sui was also the 2015 Public Policy Scholar in residence at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. More information
about Sui’s current research can be found at:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Sui.
Thank you and hope to see many of you at the presentations on Thursday and the open meeting on Friday!
Best regards,
Shih-Lung
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Shih-Lung Shaw, Ph.D.
Interim Associate Provost and Director of the Center for International Education
and
Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor & Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor
Department of Geography
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0925 U.S.A.
Phone: (865) 974-6036, Email:
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