Minority Graduate Research Honorable Mention: Kathryn E. Nava

这一特别奖项将使研究生凯瑟琳·纳瓦在攻读研究生课程和开展地理研究方面具有更大的灵活性。该奖项将允许该学生在哥斯达黎加和巴西进行实地研究，并参加专业会议。她的研究将集中在生活在热带森林保护区的农民的土地和资源使用决策上。该奖项源于NSF生物、行为和社会科学理事会的一项特别计划，该计划旨在加强之前获得荣誉奖的少数族裔奖学金申请者的研究生教育。这一奖项应该加强一个有前途的学生在地理和区域科学方面的研究参与，他是一个代表人数较少的少数群体的成员。

This special award will give graduate student Kathryn Nava additional flexibility in pursuing her graduate studies and research initiation in geography. The award will permit this student to conduct field research in Costa Rica and Brazil and to attend a professional meeting. Her research will focus on the land- and resource-use decisions of farmers living in tropical forest reserves. This award grows out of a special program in the NSF Biological, Behavioral, and Social Sciences Directorate to enhance the graduate education of previous applicants for minority fellowships who were awarded honorable mention ratings. This award should strengthen research participation in geography and regional science by a promising student who is a member of an underrepresented minority group.