by Bob Grant ST. LOUIS - “Welcome to the geospatial capital of the world.” That was how Vasit Sagan, Acting Director of the Taylor Geospatial Institute, kicked off a two-day hyperspectral imaging workshop put on by Headwall Photonics and hosted by TGI at Saint Louis...
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The Faces of TGI – J.S. Onésimo “Ness” Sándoval and Precision Geospatial Tracking of Societal Inequities
by Bob Grant ST. LOUIS - Dr. Ness Sándoval’s experience with spatial inequality runs deep. The Saint Louis University demography and sociology professor was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, a small town with a large Mexican-American community where his family put down...
Taylor Geospatial Institute Announces Inaugural Class of TGI Fellows
by Maggie Rotermund ST. LOUIS – The Taylor Geospatial Institute today announces the inaugural group of TGI fellows. The program enables TGI member institutions to recruit and retain distinguished researchers in geospatial science fields, develop the next generation of...
SLU to Host a Symposium to Explore Social Media and National Intelligence
by Maggie Rotermund ST. LOUIS – How safe is social media? In 2022, over 58.4% of the world’s population used social media and the details shared by social media users provides analysts and scammers alike with vast amounts of data in real-time. An upcoming symposium at...
Q&A with Enbal Shacham
By: USGIF Trajectory Magazine caught up with Enbal Shacham, Ph.D., a professor and associate dean of research in the college for public health and social justice at Saint Louis University and the Acting Associate Director of the Taylor Geospatial Institute, about her...
Taylor Geospatial Institute Receives $1 Million NSF Grant to Create Regional AI Learning System
ST. LOUIS – A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will create the Taylor Geospatial Institute Regional AI Learning System. Launched in April 2022 and led by Saint Louis University, the Taylor Geospatial Institute brings together eight Midwestern...
SLU Professor Awarded NIH Young Researcher Grant to Use Geospatial Science to Improve Treatment for Osteoarthritis Patients
By: Maggie Rotermund ST. LOUIS – Sarah Gebauer, M.D., assistant professor of family and community medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, was awarded a K23 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to use...
SLU’s Ness Sandoval Featured on NPR
The St. Louis region has a stable population, according to new estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 14-county region hovered around 2.8 million people, only shedding about 10,000 between 2020 and 2021, but the changes weren’t evenly distributed....
SLU, NGA Host Geo-Resolution 2021 Conference
Geo-Resolution 2021: Building a 21st Century Geospatial Ecosystem From Hard Problems to Opportunities was co-hosted by Saint Louis University and the National Geospatial Agency (NGA). The conference returned to the Wool Ballrooms at Busch Student Center on SLU campus...
SLU Researchers Develop App to Track COVID-19 Symptoms
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world, researchers pondered the spread of the disease and what the risks of individual and community transmission rates were in various locations. To address this, SLU researchers Enbal Shacham, Ph.D., a professor of...