2017 KAGES Sim Student Travel Award Application

1. Overview
Dr. Sim, Sun Hui is currently a faculty member in the Geography Department at the University of North Alabama. Through her generous sponsorship, “Sim Student Travel Award” was established in 2010 to provide financial assistance to graduate students in the research field of Geography, Geospatial Technologies and Environmental Sciences. This scholarship is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers. This award is for supporting the work of students who implement GIS/RS/Geospatial techniques into his/her research.

2. Eligibility
a. KAGES membership
b. Scholarship is open to South Koreans and Korean-Americans.
c . Applicants must be full-time graduate or undergraduate students in colleges/universities in North America.
d. Applicants must present his/her research at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
e. Former Sim Student Travel Award recipients may re-apply if they did not apply in the past two rounds while maintaining membership.
f. Recipients should be present at the annual KAGES meeting to receive awards.

3. Scholarship Award
a. Amount: $500 (USD)
b. Number of awardees per year: Two
c. Field of Study: Geography, Geospatial Technologies and Environmental Sciences

4. Application material
a. 1-page cover letter (e.g., statement of professional goals, need for financial support, how this award will benefit the student’s studies)
b. Application form – Application Form
c. 1-page curriculum vitae
d. Transcript from currently-attending school (a scanned image or a PDF file directly printed off from the Web)
e. Proof of conference presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (a scanned image from the AAG site).
f. A brief letter/email indicating support from your department (e.g. Department Chair, Advisor)

5. Submission: All materials should be submitted via email (support@kages.org).

6. Application deadline: October 27, 2016
KAGES will inform scholarship recipients by November 27, 2016. Further information is available at KAGES website (www.kages.org).

Recruiting 2nd Term Student Board Member

KAGES is recruiting the 2nd term student board member now.
– Application submission due date: by 6 PM (EST), February 29
– Application material: submit an email at support@kages.org expressing candidacy for the student board within 200 words (Korean or English). The email should include the name of candidate, the name of the organization, and the name and email address of adviser. In case a candidate has not decided his/her academic adviser, student adviser can be used.