WKU Geoscience Student
Receives Conference Scholarship

July 22, 2003

Bowling Green, Ky. - Daniel Taylor, a Western Kentucky University geoscience graduate student from Scottsville, received a student assistant scholarship to attend the annual Environmental Systems Research Institute conference in San Diego.

Taylor was selected from more than 400 applicants for the scholarship, which supported 60 student assistants from 27 states and four countries at the July 5-11 conference. The student assistants were required to work half days at the conference for the scholarship, which covered lodging, meals and conference registration.

The ESRI conference is a showcase for the brightest and most talented Geographic Information Systems users from across the globe and provides an opportunity for GIS managers, analysts and technicians to share their interests with other users. Attendance exceeded 10,000, making it the largest gathering of GIS users in the world.

This is the second year in a row that WKU's Department of Geography and Geology has had a student selected for the scholarship. Last year, Rhonda Pfaff, a graduate student from Louisville, received a scholarship and now works for ESRI in California.

For more information about GIS, WKU's GIS Certificate Program and GIS applications in business and industry, contact Kevin Cary in the Department of Geography and Geology at (270) 745-2981. For more information about applying for an ESRI student assistantship, contact Dan Taylor at taylodr1@wku.edu.

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