CDIG NEWSLETTER, MARCH 2005

• Center for Digital Globe office moves to new quarters
• Journalism student to write CDIG faculty bios
• Susan Wang to meet with CDIG class on March 15th
• CDIG Executive Board implements new policies
• Eight students eligible for CDIG graduate certificate
• Fifteen new faculty fellows join CDIG

CDiG offices move to 306H Cornell Hall

The CDiG offices have moved to a new location – 306H Cornell Hall next door to the Small Business Extension Center. Come by, and say hello.

I have been working mainly at my J-School office (181B Gannett). Feel free to drop by there any time as well.

Who are you?

Student To Write Faculty Bios for Revamped CDiG Website

One of our many talented journalism students, Jim Rogers, will be writing faculty bios for the revamped Center for Digital Globe website. He’s currently writing bios for the new Faculty Fellows who have joined CDiG this year (see note about operating policies).

This part should be easy since we have the CVs and application statements from the new members on file. He will be contacting you in the next few weeks asking for information about your interests in CDiG, current research and anything else you’d like to include on the CDiG website. Any help you can provide Jim will be greatly appreciated.

Brown Bag/Class Lecture

Susan Wang to meet with CDIG class on March 15

We’d like to invite everyone to join us and welcome Susan Wang from the Department of Geography, who will be meeting with the Center for Digital Globe class on Tuesday, March 15 in 85 Gannett Hal from 12-1pm. She’ll be talking about “Remote Sensing Applications in the U.S.”

Susan is one of the new Faculty Fellows of the Center for Digital Globe. Her research involves optical/microwave remote sensing and has been examining land cover change in northwest China and global climate change. This will be an excellent opportunity to meet with one of our new Fellows and hear about her research.

Operating Policies Are Approved

CDiG formalizes policies on faculty membership, director duties

CDiG’s new operating policies have been approved and are now in place. The entire document can be downloaded from CDiGpolicies.html

Some of the highlights:

• We now have a process for approving faculty fellows. These are faculty who wish to have a relationship with CDiG but were not part of faculty enhancement hires. The list of all CDiG faculty can be downloaded at http://www.cdig.missouri.edu/newsletter03-05/cdigfac05.htm Interested faculty members submit a CV and a statement of how their interests fit with the philosophy of CDiG. So far, we’ve added 15 new faculty fellows.

• Faculty fellows retain their standing for two years. They can continue for addition two-year terms by informing me of their interest. This means, of course, that individuals who were active in CDiG the past few years will need to let me know if they want to continue as Faculty Fellows. I will be contacting those faculty members over the next couple of weeks, but if anyone wants to beat the application rush, they can email me any time at wantaw@missouri.edu.

Details about faculty fellows are on pages 6 and 7 of the operating policies. Thanks to Steve Jorgensen, Ton Stam and Jana Hawley for an incredible job well done.

Our First Graduating Class

Eight students eligible for CDiG graduate certificate

Eight students are currently enrolled in the Case Studies in the Digital Globe class, which is the Capstone course for the CDiG graduate certificate. What this means, of course, is that we will have eight students who will be eligible to receive the new CDiG graduate certificate in May.

The class has been a wonderful learning experience for me (and I hope for the students too). It consists of three students from Textiles and Apparel Management, two from Business and one each from Journalism, Law and Engineering (there’s also a journalism student auditing the course). Needless to say, the course has been a real challenge with such a diversity of interests. On the other hand, the more the class goes on, the more we see a clearly shared interest in issues related to the Internet.

And it helps a lot to have students who have a great sense of humor. It also helps to have great guest speakers. So far, we’ve had a wide range of speakers in class: Bill Benoit from Communication, John Wedman from Information Science and Learning Technologies, George Dimiris from Health Management and Informatics, Gabe DeArmond of powermizzou.com, and Hyunjoo Oh of TAM. Still to come are Susan Wang of Geography, Henry He of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carlos Sun of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Kevin Wise of Journalism. John Miles Foley, the director of the Center for E-Research, also has agree to speak to the class.

We’ve heard about a wide variety of issues – from how to judge the effectiveness of political websites to the use of teleconferencing to bring together students from Missouri public schools and Taiwan. It’s been absolutely fascinating.

Welcome New Fellows

15 New Faculty Fellows join CDiG

• A total of 15 new Faculty Fellows have joined CDiG since the call for applications for new members went out in November.

• We now have faculty in eight different colleges and schools: Arts & Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, Truman School of Public Affairs, Human Environmental Sciences, Journalism and Law. I also have had some discussions with faculty members in the health sciences areas, so this number might increase.

• We have added three faculty members in Geography and two from the Truman School. The largest increase was from the College of Engineering, where we have had five Faculty Fellows join us.

• The overlap of some of the new Faculty Fellows with other members is very apparent. For example, the new members from the Truman School, Tom Johnson and Jim Scott, both conduct research in E-Governance – an area that I have been working in. I have already discussed some grant application possibilities with Tom. I’m sure others will follow.

Please keep in mind that membership as a Faculty Fellow is for two years, according to the new CDiG operating policies. That means that many of you will need to notify me of your attention to renew your membership. Details can be seen in the cdig policies.