Department of Geography

Clayton Whitesides, PhD student

Clayton Whitesides, 4th year PhD candidate, selected as the College of Liberal Arts 2012 Outstanding Graduate Student

Elyse Zavar, PhD student

PhD student Elyse Zavar (doctoral advisor: is Dr. Ron Hagelman):
* Recipient of the 2012 Jeanne X. Kasperson Student Paper Award from the Hazards Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. The award was presented at the February 2012 AAG meeting in New York City.

* Awarded the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society’s Joseph E. Pryor Graduate Fellowship for 2012
(https://www.alphachihonor.org/default/index.cfm/scholarships/current-recipients/).
Elyse will receive $5,000 to apply toward the completion of her graduate studies and her dissertation field work. This is the first time that a Texas State University PhD student has received the award. Elyse has also been invited to serve as Vice President of Texas State’s Alpha Chi chapter.

Melanie Stine, PhD student

Melanie Stine, 3rd year PhD student received the 2012 Chimborazo Student
Research Grant Award Honorable Mention from the Mountain Geography Specialty
Group

Tom Geason, Masters student

Tom Gleason, one of our geography undergraduate students, was honored with the 
AAG Business Geography Specialty Group's second-place award in its student
paper competition