The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) said yesterday that Kwan Mei-bo, Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science at CUHK and Choh-Ming Professor of Geography and Resource Management, has been awarded the James R. Anderson Medal of Honor for Applied Geography in recognition of her work in promoting Multi-Disciplinary Applied Geography, and her contributions to research in paradigm shift.
The James R. Anderson Medal of Honor for Applied Geography is the highest honor in the Applied Geography Professional Group of the American Association of Geographers. Kwan Mei-bo is the first Chinese and the third female scholar to receive this award in 39 years since the award has been established.
The American Association of Geographers commends Kwan Mei-bo for her success in integrating geography with different disciplines such as information technology, health, urban, social and behavioural subjects. Kwan Mei-bo said she was very grateful to the American Society for affirming her research work, and she was very pleased to receive the same honor as other outstanding Applied Geographers. She also expects to make further contributions to the innovative research of geography in the future to benefit the society and improve human life.
Kwan Mei-bo is good at collecting real-time personal level spatial and environmental data through geospatial technology. Her research areas include geographic information science, health geography, urban geography, transportation geography, social and behavioral geography, and so on.
She is a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the American Society of Geographers. Her academic awards include the Royal Geographical Society Transportation Geography Professional Group Outstanding Academic Contribution Award, the Universities Commission on Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Outstanding Research Achievement Award, and the American Society of Geographers Outstanding Academic Achievement Award.
The James R. Anderson Medal of Honor for Applied Geography, established in 1983, is the highest honor in the Applied Geography Professional Group of the American Association of Geographers, and is designed to recognize individuals or groups who have made outstanding contributions in geography.
