The Geography Department would like to congratulate Shaolu Yu, Mengyao Zhang, and Megan McCusker Hill for receiving student awards at the 2015 AAG conference.
Shaolu earned several awards:
- Economic Geography Specialty Group – Best student paper award (paper titled: “I’m like a deaf, dumb and blind person: the immobility of Chinese in Flushing New York City”)
- Urban Geography Specialty Group – Best student paper award (Paper titled: “Mobilocality”)
- Urban Geography Specialty Group – Travel award
![Mengyao Zhang [150]](http://geography.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/130/2014/04/Mengyao-Zhang-150.jpg)
Mengyao earned two awards:
- Remote Sensing/GIS/Cartography Specialty Group – First Place for 2015 Student Illustrated Paper Competition
- Transportion Geography Specialty Group – Travel award
Megan received the AAG Geomorphology Specialty Group’s Doctoral Student Paper Award for her paper “Gullies as Markers of Holocene and Anthropocene Environmental Change in southern New England”.