FALL LUNCHEON FORUM OCT. 27

Center for Urban and Regional Analysis has held a Fall Forum on the center’s mission and research opportunities for CURA affiliated faculty at the Blackwell Hotel. Speakers included Daniel Sui, CURA’s new director and Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Dieter Wanner, associate provost for Ohio State’s Global Strategies and International Affairs. Click here to see presentation slides.

 

GUGGENHEIM SCHOLAR TO LEAD OHIO STATE’S CENTER FOR URBAN AND REGIONAL ANALYSIS (CURA)

Daniel Sui has joined The Ohio State University Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) as its director. He has also been named Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Geography. A 2009 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, Sui is a widely respected scholar in many aspects of technology, spatial sciences, urban, and regional research. He comes to Ohio State from Texas A & M where he held the Reta A. Haynes Endowed Chair in Geosciences and served as assistant vice president for research and director for geospatial information science & technology (GIST). Read more.