CAGIS Undergraduate Wins 2025 NCAUG Undergraduate Scholarship

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 and private sectors. Natasha was selected for her excellence in GIS and her innovative work mapping human activity zones for malaria research in Southern Africa, advised by Dr. Yao Li.

Natasha will present her project, “High-Resolution Mapping of Human Activity,” at the NCAUG Annual Meeting, October 1–3, 2025, in Asheville, NC.

Congratulations, Natasha!