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Charlotte, NC — September 4, 2025. CAGIS undergraduate Natasha Kroll—a senior double major in Earth & Environmental Science and Data Science, with a minor in Statistics—has been awarded the 2025 North Carolina ArcGIS Users Group (NCAUG) Undergraduate Scholarship. The NCAUG scholarship recognizes undergraduate students whose studies and projects advance North Carolina’s geospatial industry across public […]

With the support of our department and the Center for Applied Geographic Information Science (CAGIS), we are excited to announce that EEGS has become a member of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), making us the second institution in North Carolina to join after NC State. This membership means that all our students, […]

During June 23–27, 2025, CAGIS post doctoral fellow, Dr. Tianyang Chen, participated in the OSG School 2025, held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The week-long summer school offered hands-on training in utilizing HTC system, the national-scale Open Science Pool (OSPool), to execute large-scale computing tasks essential to modern science. Integrating HTC into GIScience For CAGIS, […]

The Center for Applied GIScience (CAGIS) at UNC Charlotte was honored to welcome Dr. Marc P. Armstrong, Professor Emeritus from the University of Iowa, for a campus visit from April 30 to May 2, 2025. Nearly fifty years after earning his master’s degree from UNC Charlotte, Dr. Armstrong—a world-renowned pioneer and leading authority in GIScience—returned to campus. […]

Charlotte, N.C. — April 27, 2025 — The Center for Applied GIScience (CAGIS) engaged students, families, and educators at the UNC Charlotte STEAM Innovation Expo with hands-on geospatial technology: an Augmented-Reality (AR) Sandbox, a mapping-grade drone, and a drone-flight simulator. Visitors sculpted virtual mountains and river valleys in real time with the AR Sandbox, watching […]