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Award Winners

Yousef Awaad Hussein Masters in Architecture, Graduate School of Design

Fisher Prize Award 2018: Graduate Category

Name of awardee  Yousef Awaad Hussein

Poster title:  Territory, Survey, Cartography – South China Sea

Judges comments:  “A novel approach utilizing bathymetry analysis and visualizations to challenge traditional cartographic representations of how territory is understood.”

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Jennifer Horowitz A.B. Candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Fisher Prize Award 2018: Undergraduate Category

Name of awardee  Jennifer Horowitz

Poster title:  A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Man-Made Ecocide: Saddam Hussein’s Reduction of the Southern Iraqi Marshes

Judges comments: “A well executed quantitative historical analysis performed using appropriate GIS methods, presented in a visually appealing manner.”

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Oliver Curtis and Brian Ho Masters candidates at GSD

Fisher Prize Award 2017: Graduate Category

Name of awardee  Oliver Curtis and Brian Ho

Title:  "Building a Complex Surface to Simulate America’s Dry West"

Judges Comments:  "Tackled a real and complex problem involving imaginative and functional understanding of environmental systems and spatial dynamics; built on existing knowledge and research; used sophisticated geospatial processing ; and documented  credible results in an elegant and readable poster."  

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Melissa Balding Bachelor's Candidate at Harvard College

Fisher Prize Award 2017: Undergraduate Category

Name of awardee  Melissa Balding

Title:  "Vision Zero Boston: Using Crowd Sourced Safety Concerns to Identify Local Street Projects"

Judges Comments:  “Straight forward and effective GIS analysis; a clear narrative;  a timely and important topic visualized with effective maps and a  reasonable and evidence-based conclusion”

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Longfeng Wu, Yonghui Chen, Jung Hyun Woo, Seung Kyum Kim Masters candidates at GSD

Esri Development Center Student of the Year Award 2017

Name of awardee  Longfeng Wu, Yonghui Chen, Jung Hyun Woo, Seung Kyum Kim

Title: How do pedestrian choose their routes?

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Judges comments:  "high marks for originality in using Esri components to create a new urban networking tool"

"compelling map and other visualizations"

Yunhan Xu Bachelor's Candidate at Harvard College

Visualizing Urban Hospitality

Name of awardee  Yunhan Xu

2016 Fisher Prize Award Co-winner - Undergaduate Category

Judges Comments: “Notable for its clarity and legibility of presentation, and simple, elegant cartography.  A well told story of the geographic distribution of social variables”

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Heidi Hurst Bachelor's Candidate at Harvard College

Allocating Disaster Recovery Centers

Name of awardee  Heidi Hurst

2016 Fisher Prize Award Co-winner - Undergraduate Category

Judges Comments: “Thoroughly researched and well thought-out methodology leading to a practical tool, demonstrating the value of custom coding,  incorporating sophisticated geospatial analysis, and evidence-based decision making"

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Omar De La Riva Graduate School of Design

Mexico's Violent and Contested Territories

Name of awardee  Omar De La Riva

2016 Fisher Prize Award Co-winner - Graduate Category

Judges Comments: “Beautiful  graphic presentation of a timely and important topic, backed up with with careful analysis”

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Alex Mercuri, Elliot Kilham, Russel Koff, Elena Chang, and Sarah Winston. Graduate School of Design

Runnin' to Dunkin': Business Location and Patronage Analysis

Name of awardee  Alex Mercuri, Elliot Kilham, Russel Koff, Elena Chang, and Sarah Winston.

2016 Fisher Prize Award Co-winner - Graduate Category

Judges Comments: “Impressive multifactor analysis of complex data,  with inventive field data collection techniques, evidence of effective collaborative work, and excellent use of geospatial statistics.”

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Heidi Hurst Bachelor's Candidate at Harvard College

Esri Development Center Student of the Year Award 2016

Name of awardee  Heidi Hurst

Title:  A Geospatial Framework For Allocating Disaster Recovery Centers

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