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The S4 Fellows program provides recognition to Brown graduate students who are developing skills in spatial analysis and GIS tools. The first Fellows were the graduate students and post-docs that completed the inaugural S4 GIS Institute. Now the program recognizes students who have received training from other sources and have an expressed interest in continuing to use and develop these skills. Fellows come from a diverse set of departments and programs at Brown including representatives from the Social, Natural, and Medical Sciences as well as the Humanities. They naturally become consultants for other students in their home departments, and they sometimes assist in S4's GIS Institute or other training activities. To learn more about S4 GIS Institute, click here. |
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Annually in the spring a small number of students will be identified as Senior Fellows for the coming year in recognition of their contribution to GIS training, research, and outreach. We will select Senior Fellows on the basis of their participation in S4 events, their assistance in training and workshop activities, and their expertise and commitment to high quality spatially informed research. S4 relies heavily on networking and consulting relationships among our students, and designation as a Senior Fellow is an acknowledgement of the key role that our most active students play in the program. The first S4 Senior Fellows have been selected for 2008-2009. They include Sze (Sam) Liu in Community Health, Adam Storeygard in Economics, and Weiwei Zhang in Sociology. |
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Sze (Sam) Liu is a 3rd year student in the PhD program in Epidemiology where she is funded on a National Institute of Aging predoctoral fellowship. In addition, she is completing a second master¡¯s degree in Sociology. Sam¡¯s research interests include health disparities from a life-course perspective, neighborhood effects, and spatial analysis. At the 2007 American Public Health Association annual meeting she presented on neighborhood characteristics associated with hospital readmissions for pediatric asthma in Rhode Island and residential modifications and physical decline among community-dwelling elderly. Sam also completed a summer internship at the NYC DOHMH World Trade Center Registry Spatial Analysis Unit in 2007. Adam Storeygard is a graduate student in economics, focusing on empirical urban and development economics. His work reflects a longstanding interest in spatial patterns and processes. Before arriving at Brown, he was at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, where he participated in several mostly spatially-oriented population-environment and global health research and data development projects, co-authoring papers that have appeared in journals including Nature and the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. He also assisted in the development and teaching of spatial data analysis training workshops in New York and co-taught one in Germany. Adam has an M Phil in Environment and Development from the University of Cambridge and a BA from Harvard University in physics. At Brown, he is also affiliated with the Population Studies and Training Center. Weiwei Zhang is a 2nd year graduate student in Sociology. Her primary research interests include immigration assimilation and race/ethnic relations in the U.S. from both substantive and methodological perspectives. Her training at Brown in spatial and other quantitative methods has led to numerous applications using these methods. At the 2008 annual meeting of the Population Association of America, she will present a study using the 2000 U.S. Census of the impact of recent immigration on existing residential patterns. She is also working on historical racial/ethnic residential segregation in U.S. cities using the 1880 Census. At Brown, she is affiliated with both S4 and the Population Studies and Training Center.
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