Gil Latz has
been selected as a Research Scholar by the United States Fulbright
Commission for the 2001-02 academic year. This award was granted for
his proposed project on Comparative International Research on Agricultural
Land-use History and Forest Management Practices: The Tuscan Estate of
Castello di Spannocchia and Vermont’s Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller
National Historical Park. Affiliation in Italy will be with the University
of Florence.
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Tom Leinbach,
Department of Geography was invited to serve as a Senior Visiting Fellow
at the Institute of Southeast
Asian Studies in Singapore from January to April, 2001. During this period he carried
out research on problems associated with Indonesia's rural economy. In
addition Leinbach has received an award from the CRE, NGS
(info)
as well as the National Science Foundation (info).
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At the 2001 AAG
annual meeting held in New York, Dr. Thomas Leinbach of
the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky and Dr.
Bimal Paul of the Department of Geography at Kansas State University
recieved "Distinguished Service Award" from the Asian
Geography Specialty Group.
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Yehua Dennis
Wei (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) has been awarded an NSF
Grant for the proposal "Business Organization and Network Relations
of Foreign Manufacturing Ventures in the Yangtze Delta Region, China"
(with C.K. Leung). Co-PI. 2001-2004.
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