Mariana Belgiu 'Young Scholars' Winner

Z_GIS PhD student Mariana Belgiu was successfully nominated for this year's 'Young Scholar' award, presented today by Mike Gould at the ESRI annual user conference in San Diego.

Her research on the development of geoportal designs, metadata profiles and semantic search were all incorporated in the online course 'ArcGIS for Server', developed and taught by Mariana as an elective subject in the UNIGIS distance learning program.

Mariana will present her paper titled "UNIGIS: Teaching ArcGIS for Server Via Distance Learning" in a session dedicated to Online GIS Education.

Congratulations to being selected for this honor and distinction!!