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FeaturedJune 1, 2026
A. Stewart Fotheringham will visit Chongqing University in mid-June to give a presentation and receive an Honorary Professorship before traveling to Nanjing for a keynote address.
Chen-Lun Kao, Mehak Sachdeva, and A. Stewart Fotheringham published a new Spatial Statistics article on multiscale geographically weighted binomial regression.
SDSC faculty and graduate students presented new research and earned specialty group honors at the 2026 AAG Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Amber DeJohn co-authors a new Applied Geography article examining the causal effects of transit investment on neighborhoods.
Amber DeJohn hosted the first independent GOAL Symposium at Florida State University, with participation from several SDSC faculty members.
Amber DeJohn was invited to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to discuss her work on digital health in later life.
Mehak Sachdeva, A. Stewart Fotheringham, and Mason Mathews received a 2025-2026 FSU/AWS Research Acceleration Fund award with $20,000 in AWS cloud computing credits.
Mehak Sachdeva has been awarded a 2025-2026 First Year Assistant Professor Grant for a project building a high-resolution national database to study urban polarization.
Special issue highlights interpretable and explainable GeoAI for geospatial science and Earth observations.
FSU establishes the Spatial Data Science Center to tackle complex social challenges with advanced spatial analytics.
Amber DeJohn will lead a new NIH-funded GECC project to measure and map healthcare accessibility for Alzheimer's-related risk factors.
Amber DeJohn co-founds a new symposium to spotlight aging research across FSU, backed by COSSPP internal funding.
Call for Paper: Amber DeJohn co-edits a special issue in Health & Place on Aging