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Jacob Tagnan named a 2026 USGIF Doctoral Scholar
Jacob N. Tagnan has been selected as a Doctoral Scholar in the 2026 United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation scholarship program.
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Jun 1, 2026SDSC Staff
Stewart Fotheringham to visit Chongqing University and keynote Population Geography conference
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.
May 22, 2026Chen-Lun Kao
Chen-Lun Kao publishes new Spatial Statistics article on local spatial context
Chen-Lun Kao, Mehak Sachdeva, and A. Stewart Fotheringham published a new Spatial Statistics article on multiscale geographically weighted binomial regression.
Apr 16, 2026SDSC Staff
SDSC at AAG 2026 in San Francisco
SDSC faculty and graduate students presented new research and earned specialty group honors at the 2026 AAG Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Apr 13, 2026Amber DeJohn
Amber DeJohn publishes new Applied Geography article on transit investment and neighborhood change
Amber DeJohn co-authors a new Applied Geography article examining the causal effects of transit investment on neighborhoods.
Apr 13, 2026Amber DeJohn
2026 GOAL Symposium highlights interdisciplinary aging research at FSU
Amber DeJohn hosted the first independent GOAL Symposium at Florida State University, with participation from several SDSC faculty members.
Apr 13, 2026Amber DeJohn
Amber DeJohn invited to speak at UT Knoxville on digital health in later life
Amber DeJohn was invited to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to discuss her work on digital health in later life.
Apr 9, 2026Mehak Sachdeva
SDSC team receives FSU/AWS Research Acceleration Fund award
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.
Apr 9, 2026Mehak Sachdeva
Mehak Sachdeva receives First Year Assistant Professor Grant for urban polarization research
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.
Nov 4, 2025Ziqi Li
Call for Papers: Interpretability and Explainability in GeoAI
Special issue highlights interpretable and explainable GeoAI for geospatial science and Earth observations.
Oct 21, 2025Rebecca Sage & Rachel Lechwar | FSU News
Florida State University launches Spatial Data Science Center
FSU establishes the Spatial Data Science Center to tackle complex social challenges with advanced spatial analytics.
Aug 15, 2025Amber DeJohn
NIH Grant: National, Multidimensional Measures of Healthcare Accessibility for AD/ADRD Risk Factors
Amber DeJohn will lead a new NIH-funded GECC project to measure and map healthcare accessibility for Alzheimer's-related risk factors.
Jul 1, 2025Amber DeJohn
2026 Geographies of Aging and the Life Course (GOAL) Symposium at FSU
Amber DeJohn co-founds a new symposium to spotlight aging research across FSU, backed by COSSPP internal funding.
Apr 6, 2025Amber DeJohn
Call for Paper: Health & Place special issue on "Aging in Place and Space"
Call for Paper: Amber DeJohn co-edits a special issue in Health & Place on Aging