Awards/Grants

HONORS/AWARDS

• 2010 Best Presentation Award, 8^th National Crime Mapping Conference, Manchester, England
• 2010 Best Presentation Award, CSIS Days, Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo, Japan
• 2007 2^nd place, American Society of Criminology Graduate Student Paper Competition

RESEARCH GRANTS/FELLOWSHIP

• Provost Faculty Scholarship Support Program. California State University, Fresno. “The Mystery of Unsolved Murders: A Longitudinal Analysis of Homicide Clearance Rates in the U.S.” 2012-2013.
• College of Social Sciences Research/Creative Activities Awards. California State University, Fresno. “The Development of Statistical Databases of Crime in Fresno.” 2011-2012.
• Billsland Dissertation Fellowship. Purdue Graduate School. “Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Crime and Neighborhoods: A Longitudinal Analysis of Crime Rates in Seattle Neighborhoods between 1950 and 2000.” $18,000. 2007 – 2008.
• East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI). Jointly funded by National Science Foundation and Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. “A Spatial Analysis of the Police Box System and Neighborhood Crime Rates in Japan.” $9,000 (includes stipend and travel/maintenance allowances). Summer 2007.

THESIS/PROJECT SUPERVISION

• 2013 Donna M. Snow. “Sex Offender Violation Status: An Individual and Contextual Level Analysis.” California State University, Fresno. Outstanding Thesis Award.