RESEARCH RELATED ACTIVITY &
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

 

RECOGNITIONS

2008       Lifetime Achievement Honors Award, Association of American Geographers.

 

2007       Walter Isard Award for Scholarship, North American Regional Science Council.

 

2000       Fellow, American Academy for the Advancement of Science.

 

1996       Distinguished Mentor Award, National Council for Geographic Education.

 

1996       Distinguished University Professor Award, Ohio State University.

 

1993       Distinguished Teaching Award, Ohio State University.

 

1991       Biographical Profile, Who’s Who in American Education, 3rd Edition.

 

1990       University Service Recognition, Ohio State University, Office of Academic Affairs.

 

1990       Biographical Profile, Who’s Who in the Midwest, 22nd Edition, 23rd Edition (1992), 24th Edition (1994).

 

1989-90 Mentor, Lilly Teaching Fellow Program, Ohio State University.

 

1985       Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

 

1984       Distinguished Scholar Award, Ohio State University.

 

1983       Honors Award, Association of American Geographers.

 

1981       Included in Geographers on Film Series.

 

1964-65 University Fellowship, Northwestern University.

 

1964-65 Transportation Center Fellowship, Northwestern University.

 

1964       American Scandinavian Society Fellowship.

 

RESEARCH GRANTS

 

2000-03 USDA, Decentralization, Capital Mobility, and Local Well-Being: Rural Counties in a New Policy Era, co-Pi with Linda Lobao and David Kraybill, $235,000.

 

1998-00 USDA, Decentralization, Capital Mobility, and Local Well-Being: Rural Counties in a New Policy Era, co-PI with Linda Lobao and David Kraybill, $65,018.

 

1997-98 NSF, Making Ends Meet: Differences Among Yoruba Women in Benin in the Use of a Multiple Enterprise Economic Strategy, Dissertation Research Enhancement Program, with Jennifer Mandel, $10,000.

 

1993-96 USDA, Public Policies, Economic Restructuring, and Local Outcomes: The Ohio River Valley, co-PI with Linda Lobao, $126,128.

 

1993-96 NSF, Urban System Evolution in Frontier Settings: The Ecuador Amazon and General Frameworks, plus Research Experience for Undergraduates supplement, $137,171.

 

1985-87 NSF, Intermediate Size Cities and Developmental/Exploitative Impacts on Regional Development, Dissertation Research Enhancement Program, with Victoria Lawson, $9,597.

 

1981-84 NSF, Towards a Development Paradigm of Migration: With Particular Reference to Third World Settings, $144,477.

 

1973-78 NSF, The Market and Infrastructure Context of Adoption and Diffusion, $211,700.

 

1971-73 Ford Foundation, Choice Mechanisms in the Migration Decision, $21,153.

 

1971       Co-director with Kent Schwirian.  NSF Institute on Models of Urban Spatial Ecology and Population, $40,375.

 

1970       Co-director with Kent Schwirian.  NSF Institute on Models of Urban Spatial Structure and Ecology, $20,650.

 

1969-78 Ohio State University Faculty Grant-in-Aid Awards, $4,100.

 

1968       Old Gold Fellowship Recipient, $2,000.