McNally Award: Ellen Currin
Douglas Eyre Leadership Award: Omololu Refilwe Babatunde
Melinda Meade Research Award: Katherine Batchelor
2015 Honors Theses:
Omololu Babatunde: “Black Liberatory Senses of Place: Creating From Abject Otherness”.
Katharine Batchelor: “An Analysis of the Religious Rights and Freedoms Afforded to Undocumented Immigrants in the United States”
Ellen Currin: “Unbounded: Rethinking Borders with New Visualization Technologies”
Ella Koeze: “Digital Persuasion: Jane Austen’s Persuasion as a Test Case for Mapping, Visualization, and Interpretation in the Digital Humanities”
Jessica Suggs: A Systematic Analysis of Direct and Indirect Casualties Associated with Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclones
Each graduating Geography Major was given a copy of the Atlas of Design Volume 2, produced bu the North American Cartographic Information Society.
http://nacis.org/initiatives/atlas-of-design/
A picture of Omololu Babatunde, her father, Dr. Conghe Song, and Dr. Aaron Moody:
From left to right: Dr. Moody, Dr. Song, Omololu and her father.