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Reproducing 19th Century Japan with GIS
CURA's Dr. Peter Chen partnered with Professor Philip Brown in the Department of History to digitize a 19th century Japanese map. This map will be used for Professor Brown's research project…

Food Mapping Team Featured in onCampus
Ohio State's Food Mapping Team led by Assistant Professor of Social Work Michelle Kaiser is featured in onCampus.
CURA is part of this research funded by the Food Innovation Center.…

CURA Affiliates at the AAG
Four CURA affiliates presented their work last week at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Tampa, Florida. These PhD students are working on some of the key issues in…

20,000 Free Hi-Res Maps from the New York Public Library
The New York Public Library has made 20,000 high resolution maps available for free on the NYPL Map Warper website. This is a tool for rectifying historical maps from the library's collections to…

Democratizing Data Visualization
MIT has launched a new tool for those of us interested in data visualization. Exhibit is a publishing framework for data-rich interactive web pages. You can read more about the tool and try…

Pranietha Mudliar Receives CURA Travel Grant to Present in Germany
Pranietha Mudliar, a PhD Candidate in the School of Environment and Natural Resources, has been awarded a CURA Travel Grant to present "The Role of Heterogeneity in Collaborative Water Management…

Former CURA Affiliate Updates Air Traffic Project
Former CURA Affiliate Kejing Peng has updated the T-100 Airport Traffic Analysis he created while pursuing his MA in Geography here at Ohio State. This second iteration includes an Access Map (and…

Akheil Singla Wins CURA Travel Grant
Akheil Singla, PhD student in the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, has been awarded a CURA Travel Grant to present "Blind, Broke, and Bedlam - The Cases of Stockton, Vallejo, and San…

Data Visualization Tools
As we start thinking about all of the urban and regional-themed conferences in the next couple of months, we are also thinking about how we can present our research in ways that will engage our…