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- Title
Undergraduate GIScience Research at Clark University: The HERO Program.
- Authors
Polsky, Colin; Rogan, John; Pontius Jr., Robert Gilmore; Turner II, B. L.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the success and challenges experienced by the Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts during the seven years of its formal undergraduate research program called Human-Environment Regional Observatory (HERO) which uses Geographic Information Science (GISci) to examine human-environment interactions. It outlines the university's objectives, undergraduate pedagogical goals of the program and its success. It concludes that the HERO reinforced the faculty that a sustained monitoring/data collection and analysis effort is required in advancing the university's frontiers and engaging undergraduate students in the initiative that can be productive.
- Subjects
WORCESTER (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS; GEOGRAPHIC information systems; EDUCATIONAL technology; HUMAN ecology; SOCIAL interaction; COLLEGE student development programs; COLLEGE curriculum; CLARK University (Worcester, Mass.)
- Publication
Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 2007, Vol 27, Issue 3, p124
- ISSN
1072-5830
- Publication type
Article