News Archive
14 November 2018 - GIS Day 2018 event in collaboration with Ryerson University Library and Archives and Esri Canada includes a presentation on big data in retail analytics by MSA faculty member Dr. Tony Hernandez and Joe Aversa, MSA 鈥10 and PhD cand. at Wilfred Laurier University. The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies will also participate in the City of Toronto鈥檚 GIS Day event on November 20th with a presentation of select MSA student work.
13 November 2018 - Thank you, Environics Analytics, for allowing 25 MSA students to present their cool cartography and geovisualization course projects at the 2018 EA User Conference!
11 October 2018 - Congratulations, MSA class of 2018 on today鈥檚 convocation ceremony!
11 June 2018 - MSA student Krystal Siebert presented her research on 鈥淯se of Wetland-to-Lake Hydrologic Connectivity Metrics to Better Understand Broad-Scale Patterns in Lake Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentrations鈥 at 2018 meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union.
1 June 2018 - At the 2018 meeting of the Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA), MSA student Melanie MacDonald reported on her course project on mapping informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, using OpenStreetMap with an associated story map and some artwork too. Congrats, Melanie, on being selected for the CCA鈥檚 best student paper/presentation award at the conference!
17 May 2018 - Andy Charles, MSA '01, who served as Analyst and Retail Consultant at Scotiabank, and Sears Canada, and now is Senior Manager of Strategy, Analytics, and Insights at Loblaw Co, was profiled for Ryerson University鈥檚 70/25-year anniversary. Andy was among the first eight Ryerson students to ever receive a graduate degree - see him cross the stage at Fall 2001 convocation at
3 May 2018 - At the MSA Poster Day, 19 students presented their major research paper or thesis research plans. The photo at shows faculty, staff, prospective MSA students, and industry representatives listening attentively to the student鈥檚 presentation across an extraordinary range of topics.
28 March 2018 - Sean Marshall, MSA 鈥05, spoke to an undergraduate Geographic Analysis class today about potential campus locations in Brampton. In addition to his day job as Geospatial Health Analyst, Sean blogs about urban transportation issues and is a contributing writer for Spacing Magazine and TVO.
14 March 2018 - Taking a daily dive into Data Lake鈥 For International Women鈥檚 Day, Scotiabank鈥檚 Digital Factory profiled the work of Margaret Woo, MSA 鈥01, and Senior Manager, Applied Analytics at the bank.
2 March 2018 - Ryerson鈥檚 鈥淎lumni of Grad Studies鈥 series features a portrait of Amanda Maze, MSA '04, and Director of Spatial Strategy and Real Estate Insights at Walmart Canada. The Master of Spatial Analysis is one of Ryerson鈥檚 longest-running graduate degrees with extraordinary career opportunities in geography, GIS, retail, marketing, banking, and real estate.
10 February 2018 - New article by a group of MSA faculty and students: K. Wayne Forsythe et al., 鈥淎ssessing fine particulate matter concentrations and trends in southern Ontario, Canada, 2003-2012.鈥 Get your open access copy at
2 February 2018 - Ryerson Today article on 鈥淲hy your geography degree will get you a job鈥, highlighting the transferable skills acquired in the MSA program: 鈥淔rom retail to crime analytics to public health, geography is in high demand鈥, citing the experience of MSA alumni Heather Hart and Joe Aversa.
23 November 2017 - Celebrating the Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity's (CSCA) 25th anniversary with an evening event around Canadian retail, real estate, and consumer behaviour trends. The CSCA is a founding partner of the MSA program and has hosted numerous MSA student research projects.
13 November 2017 - GIS Day event in the MSA lab. Students presented their completed Geovisualization projects, ranging from interactive and animated maps to 3D prints and other physical models.
19 October 2017 - The annual MSA practicum host reception showcases experiential learning at its best. Quotes from placement hosts overheard at the reception: MSA students make 鈥渕aps that really change the conversation鈥 about city planning and are 鈥渇ully involved in our work group鈥, not just given a project to go off with. In other organizations, MSA students use GIS to help estimate mortgage risk, and employ location intelligence in environmental conservation. In retail network planning, MSA students consult on store cannibalization. As information designers at a major consultancy, MSA students will contribute to turning analytics into actionable decisions. MSA placement students will also participate in addressing police accountability and cost using geospatial data analysis. There even was a bit of competition between hosts about which is the coolest placement in conservation!
12 October 2017 - Congratulations, Master of Spatial Analysis (MSA) class of 2017 @RyersonU! Eggy, the mascot, likes #Geography #GIS and #WomenInAnalytics, see our tweet at .
16 June 2017 - Congratulations to Daniel Liadsky (MSA 2015) and Dr. Brian Ceh who recently published a paper entitled 鈥The interaction between individual, social and environmental factors and their influence on dietary intake among adults in Toronto鈥 in the journal Transactions in GIS.
09 May 2017 - This is the 4th story based on the following the reports by the , Ryerson Today, the City Building Bulletin (April issue) by Ryerson City Building Institute.
Upcoming Event: The annual MSA Poster Day event will be held on Thursday, May 4th, 2017. Please see poster for additional information.
18 April 2017 - Congratulations to Joseph Ariwi, Gabby Lee, Ela Lichtblau, Gary Moloney for their work from the GIS Project Management course in Fall 2016 profiled on Ryerson Today on Apr 13th, 2017, in a story entitled 鈥Students and police work together- Ryerson geography students develop mental health app with Toronto Police Service鈥! In this project, the group applied their skills in data handling, spatial analytics, web GIS, statistical modeling and critical social analysis, to develop the Community Asset Portal (CAP), which is a partnership between Ryerson, TPS, the City of Toronto, and Find Help/211 that seeks to create an efficient, map-based system for practical front-line use. The project continued after the course through placement for Gabby and a part time summer position for Joseph.
21 February 2017 - Congratulations to Joseph Ariwi's success with two 2nd prizes at YSGS's "Why Ryerson?" and "My Voice, Our Future" contests!
The first contest was for a 20-word statement explaining why the student chose Ryerson for their graduate education: 2nd Place: Joseph Ariwi, Spatial Analysis MSA "I chose Ryerson for my graduate education because of the depth of expertise and diversity of culture found on campus."
The second contest was for a on who they are and where they are headed after Ryerson: .
16 November 2016 - We had a successful 15-year MSA Reunion that took place concurrently with the EA user conference reception and a GIS Day-themed display of geovisualization projects from the MSA cartography course on Nov 16, 2016! Many thanks for the enormous support provided by Environics Analytics! Environics Analytics founder and president, Jan Kestle, is quoted with identifying "Geography as the secret sauce" that integrates data for advanced analytics. The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Ryerson University received shout-outs and accolades for training the next generation of data analysts through its BA in Geographic Analysis and MSA in Spatial Analysis programs. See an event report from Dr. Claus Rinner ())
15 October 2015 - Congratulations to Daniel Liadsky (MSA class 2014-2015) who was awarded the Ryerson Gold Medal, University's highest honour, at the Fall Convocation Ceremony on Oct 15, 2015. This award is presented to one student from each Faculty. Daniel was the only student from the Faculty of Arts who was selected for this highly competitive award. The award recognizes Daniel鈥檚 outstanding academic achievement and research in food geography using geographic and statistical methods, combined with his outstanding community and professional involvement with the Canadian Urban Institute and other community and non-profit organizations using GIS, geo-visualization and geo-computation approaches.
1 September 2015 鈥 Welcome to 21 new MSA students, coming to us from Carleton, Cornell, Lakehead, Laurentian, McGill, Queen鈥檚, Toronto, Victoria, and of course Ryerson undergraduate (and graduate) degrees!
26 August 2015 鈥 Project proposals by MSA faculty members Dr. Claire Oswald, Dr. Richard Shaker, and Dr. Andrew Millward were funded by 鈥淩ECODE at Ryerson University鈥, showcasing our Department鈥檚 leadership in social innovation. See the RECODE initiative鈥檚 for details.
1 June 2015 鈥 Five MSA students participate in the Canadian Association of Geographers鈥 conference in Vancouver starting today: Christine Valancius, Alexis Robinson, Vadim Sabetski, Shannon Strelioff, and Kaylin Chin. See Dr. Forsythe鈥檚 for details.
21 April 2015 鈥 MSA students Daniel Liadsky, Vadim Sabetski, and Heather Hart present at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Chicago this week, along with numerous MSA faculty members and several MSA alumni. See Dr. Rinner鈥檚 for details.
15 March 2015 鈥 Alumni news: Adam McKay (MSA 鈥13) is volunteering on a mission. From March to May, he teaches GIS & Remote Sensing at Kabale University in south western Uganda.
6 February 2015 鈥 We are in the process of updating the MSA publication list. This includes three peer-reviewed, international journal articles by Travis Tormala (MSA 鈥10), Andrew Chung-Da Lee (MSA 鈥11), and Brad Carter (MSA 鈥12) with their respective supervisors, spanning topics from geospatial access to health care to neighbourhood change and development of novel decision support techniques in GIS.
12 January 2015 鈥 This week, 23 MSA students have their first day on their practicum. The hosts for these valuable work placements include different units within the cities of Toronto and Vaughan, three provincial ministries, two conservation authorities, a major bank, a GIS developer and a geospatial data vendor, a real-estate developer, an engineering consultancy, two hospitals, two business analytics firms, two police services, a research institute, and a non-profit community group.
16 December 2014 鈥 Congratulations to Christopher Greene (MSA 鈥09), who won one of Ryerson鈥檚 prestigious 2015 Dean鈥檚 Teaching Awards! Chris teaches in the Department鈥檚 Environment and Urban Sustainability and Geographic Analysis programs, while completing his PhD in Environmental Applied Science and Management. Ryerson鈥檚 2015 Award Recipients also include MSA faculty members Dr. Andrew Millward (Social Innovation and Action Research Award) and Dr. Eric Vaz and Dr. Marcus Escobar-Anel (Dean鈥檚 SRC (Research) Awards).
16 October 2014 鈥 Best wishes to the 20 MSA graduates of the class of 2014, shown in this photo from fall convocation.
25 September 2014 鈥 MSA professor Andrew Millward turns parks into classrooms using a mobile app with information on the urban forest. Several MSA students contributed to this research, including Greg Bowie (MSA 鈥11), who is mentioned in this article.
26 August 2014 鈥 The Department of Geography and are welcoming a new class of 25 MSA candidates. The students come to us from universities in Southern Ontario, including Guelph, Queen鈥檚, Ryerson, Toronto, Waterloo, and Western, and as far as Concordia (QC), Bucknell (US), Concepcion (CL), Bucharest (RO), and Auckland (NZ)!
26-30 May 2014 鈥 MSA student research presented at at Brock University includes Heather Hart on statistical bias of geographic scale in environmental inequity and Rajiv Lalla on geographic distribution of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, both with supervisor Dr. Peter Kedron. Other presentations were given by MSA alumni as well as faculty members.
7-12 April 2014 鈥 Four current MSA students and at least three MSA alumni are presenting at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Tampa, Florida. See Dr. Rinner鈥檚 for details on all presentations by Geography department members.
16 March 2014 鈥 Toronto鈥檚 Chief Planner tweeted about 鈥淥pen data leads to new expressions of our beautiful city鈥 referring to a map made by MSA student William Davis. William鈥檚 鈥渕ap of every traffic signal in Toronto鈥 was also featured in and commented on in another 100+ tweets.
04 March 2014 鈥 MSA faculty member Dr. Wayne Forsythe and his former student Grant McCartney (MSA 鈥11) published their research on 鈥溾 in the Open Access journal ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.
25 February 2014 鈥 Alumni news: Kamal Paudel (MSA 鈥08) was cited in the about the use of location analytics in conservation (p.17). The issue includes references to GIS applications across the business, environmental, and social/health fields of study available in the MSA program.
26 January 2014 鈥 Alumni news: Congratulations to Stephen Young (MSA 鈥11) on his promotion to McDonald鈥檚 Canada鈥檚 national Director, Corporate Support Services & Spatial Research! Stephen鈥檚 geoanalytics team at McD also employs three other MSA grads.
25 November 2013 鈥 Two inaugural Master of Spatial Analysis (MSA) Awards of Distinction were presented to Mary Grunstra and Adam McKay (MSA 鈥13) at the Department of Geography鈥檚 awards night. Click here for snapshot from the event.
03 July 2013 鈥 Four students with MSA links and two MSA professors presented their research results at parallel conferences in Salzburg, Austria! Prof. S. Swales, incoming MSA student Colleen Middleton, and Prof. W. Forsythe presented "The Use of Geographic Information System (GIS) Analysis to Delimit a Protected Area for Old-growth Red Pine Forest in Wolf Lake, Temagami, Ontario, Canada" at the Symposium. In addition, Prof. W. Forsythe, Chris Marvin (Canada Centre for Inland Waters), current MSA student Cameron Hare, Joseph Aversa (MSA '10), Prof. Swales, Elfriede Eder (Franziskanergymnasium, Bozen, Italy) and Adrian Gawedzki (MSA '11) presented "Geovisualization of Arsenic in Lake Erie Sediments" at the 25th Symposium.
31 May 2013 鈥 New major research projects by MSA faculty members! Drs. C. Rinner and P. Robinson are co-applicants on a Canada-wide, five-year SSHRC Partnership Grant. This funding will help support future MSA student research addressing the partnership鈥檚 central question of 鈥淗ow the geospatial web 2.0 is reshaping government-citizen interactions鈥. In addition, Dr. H. Bauder leads a three-year SSHRC Partnership Development Grant on 鈥淚ntegration trajectories of immigrant families鈥, in which Drs. S. Ghosh, T. Hernandez, and S. Wang are among the co-applicants.
22 May 2013 鈥 Congratulations to Adrian Gawedzki (MSA '11) and Peter Rodriguez (MSA '09) for their article on 鈥溾 which was led by MSA faculty member Dr. Wayne Forsythe with colleagues Kim Irvine and Mary Perrelli from Buffalo State.
20 March 2013 鈥 Alumni news: Congratulations to GIS Analyst Manoj Dangwal (MSA 鈥04) on winning a 2012 Employee Excellence Award at Allstate Insurance Company of Canada.
26 February 2013 鈥 She did it again! Second peer-reviewed journal article by Lisa-Jen Ferrato (MSA 鈥12) on her research 鈥溾 with supervisor Dr. Wayne Forsythe.
21 February 2013 鈥 MSA program director Dr. Shuguang Wang led the publication of an article on 鈥溾, which is partially based on Jason Zhong鈥檚 (MSA 鈥09) major research paper on 鈥淒elineating Ethnoburbs鈥.
15 February 2013 鈥 Congratulations to MSA faculty member Dr. Doug Banting, who is part of a team that won a major research contract from the City of Toronto to develop 鈥淕IS-Based Hydrologic and Hydraulic Models for Combined-Sewer-System Management鈥. The Ryerson team will help the City to comply with new federal wastewater systems effluent regulations.
20 December 2012 鈥 Congratulations to MSA faculty members Dr. Wayne Forsythe and Dr. Claus Rinner: Wayne received a 2012/13 Faculty Service Award for exceptional contributions to the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, Ryerson University, and the profession of Geography. He currently serves as Vice President of the Canadian Association of Geographers - Ontario Division (). Claus received a 2012/13 Faculty SRC Award for outstanding achievements in scholarly, research, and creative activities. His research program and publication record is driven by MSA student research.
01 November 2012 鈥 Emily Hazell (MSA 鈥12) gave an invited presentation on 鈥淕eographic variation and clustering of gastroschisis in Canada, 2005-2010鈥 at the Canadian Congenital Anomalies Surveillance Network conference. This work was the outcome of Emily鈥檚 MSA Practicum in the Maternal-Infant Care Research Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital.
13 October 2012 鈥 Four 2012 MSA graduates supervised by Professors Forsythe and Swales presented their research at the this weekend. The work by L. Ferrato, J. Floroff, C. Krnic, and M. Wilson ranged from thermal energy site selection to land cover classification, fire modeling, and the analysis of river sediment contamination. And for the second year in a row, the CAGONT Master鈥檚 Research Paper award went to an MSA: Congratulations to Lisa Ferrato on her winning paper on 鈥淐omparing Hyperspectral and Multispectral Imagery for Land Cover Classification of the Lower Don River, Toronto鈥!
10 September 2012 鈥 We are welcoming 24 new MSA students from a variety of education, career, and life paths into the program. We are looking forward to an exciting year of learning and collaboration. At the same time, 16 out of 17 fulltime and 2 out of 3 second-year parttime students have defended their major research papers and are working on their final revisions. Best of luck with your future endeavours!
26 June 2012 鈥 Congratulations to Lisa Ferrato, the first MSA student in a while to co-author an article that was published, while she is still completing her degree! The article on 鈥溾 was led by MSA faculty members Dr. K.W. Forsythe, S.J. Swales, and D.M. Atkinson with a contribution from visiting student B. Schatz.
15 & 22 June 2012 鈥 MSA faculty members Drs. A. Millward and S. Wang made the newspaper headlines recently. Dr. Millward鈥檚 research with MSA students on the economic benefits of urban trees was portrayed in the Toronto Star with the conclusion that 鈥溾. And Dr. Wang鈥檚 work was cited in the Globe and Mail with reference to 鈥溾.
12 June 2012 鈥 MSA Program Director Dr. C. Rinner was awarded an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to study 鈥淢ulti-Criteria Decision Analysis for Place-Based Policy-Making: Evaluating Toronto's Neighbourhood Wellbeing Indices鈥. Future MSA students will be needed to contribute to this research at the intersection of Geographic Information Science and Urban Policy!
24 May 2012 鈥 MSA admissions are being closed early this year. A few completed application files are still being assessed, but the program is nearly full for Fall 2012. If you were considering an application, please make sure to apply early for admission in Fall 2013. Program staff are available throughout the year to discuss your goals and perspectives.
14 May 2012 鈥 Congratulations to MSA faculty member Dr. Sutama Ghosh, who is co-investigator and designated team leader on a 2012-2019 SSHRC Partnership Grant on 鈥淣eighbourhood inequality, diversity, and change: trends, processes, consequences, and policy options for Canada鈥檚 large Metropolitan areas鈥.
17 April 2012 鈥 Dr. Tony Hernandez鈥 commitment to research on shopping centres was honoured with a . Many MSA students have contributed to Tony鈥檚 research at Ryerson鈥檚 .
23 March 2012 鈥 Congratulations to Brad Carter, parttime MSA student, whose map on 鈥淏roken Windows & Violent Crime in Philadelphia鈥 completed for the MSA cartography course won 2nd place in the as well as a honorable mention in the 39th Annual Map Design Competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. A detailed version of is linked on the .
16-18 March 2012 鈥 The MSA program along with the Department of Geography and Student Association in Geographic Analysis are proud to host the first OpenStreetMap developer event held in Canada, the
08 March 2012 鈥 Steph Murphy (MSA 鈥11) was interviewed for the section of the GoGeomatics blog. Other MSAs may follow.
04 March 2012 鈥 The International Journal of Ecology published Adrian Gawedzki鈥檚 (MSA 鈥11) research with Dr. Wayne Forsythe on anthracene and .
24 Feb 2012 鈥 Six MSA faculty members are participating in the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) this week. Three presentations are based on student research by Dan Boyko (MSA 鈥10), Hong Chen and Mary Makar (MSA 鈥11), and current MSA student Enia Dhoska.
26 Jan 2012 鈥 Congratulations to Suzanne Kershaw (MSA 鈥10) and her MSA supervisor, Dr. Andrew Millward, on publishing the article entitled 鈥鈥 based on Suzanne鈥檚 major research paper.
20 Jan 2012 鈥 Dr. Ken Jones, co-founder and major contributor to the MSA program, former Chair of Geography, and now Dean of Ryerson鈥檚 management school, received the 2012 Errol Aspevig Award for Outstanding Academic Leadership. Congratulations, Ken!
22 October 2011 - Four MSA Students from the 2011 class, I. Dragovic, A. Gawedzki, A. Kluke, and G. McCartney presented their research at the together with their supervisors, Dr. W. Forsythe and Prof. S. Swales. Congratulations to Amy and Adrian on winning the two Masters-level awards in the Student Paper Competition!
20 October 2011 - At Ryerson's Fall Convocation, 24 MSA students graduated today! A great turn-out of 20 graduands were in attendance to receive congratulations on and off stage. See this taken in the Quad.
14 October 2011 - Another peer-reviewed journal publication resulted from MSA student research: "" by A. Sani (MSA "11) and MSA program director, Dr. C. Rinner.
21 June 2011 鈥 The major research paper by Mushtaq Hussain (MSA 鈥10) was the basis for an article on , published in the open access journal Remote Sensing.
12 May 2011 鈥 A recent report on one-stop shopping trends co-authored by Chris Daniel (MSA '05) and Joe Aversa (MSA '10) of Ryerson鈥檚 Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity was portrayed in the campus news today.
19 Apr 2011 鈥 We had another successful MSA Poster Day, at which the current MSA students presented their major research paper proposals. See this and some of their advisors.
04 Apr 2011 鈥 MSA program director Dr. Claus Rinner led the publication of an article about the , which was co-authored by Sean Marshall (MSA '05) and MSA faculty member Dr. Tony Hernandez, along with collaborators at St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto.
30 Mar 2011 鈥 MSA program director Dr. Claus Rinner received a 5-year Discovery Grant for "Developing Spatially Explicit Methods to Enhance Geovisual Analytics and Decision Support" from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
01 Feb 2011 鈥 MSA faculty member Dr. Lu Wang together with Deborah Roisman (MSA 鈥07) published an article in the Professional Geographer based on Deborah鈥檚 major research paper on
30 Nov 2010 鈥 22 full-time MSA students have been placed for their Winter term practicum. The hosts range from Bell Mobility to the TRCA; Environics Analytics to the TDSB; and Canada Post to the Ministry of Environment, to name but a few examples.
20 Oct 2010 鈥 Congratulations to the 17 MSA students who graduated in Fall Convocation today! A lunch reception was held at the Elephant & Castle pub.
16 Oct 2010 鈥 Today, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the MSA program with a reception for alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends.
16 Oct 2010 鈥 Five recent graduates from the MSA program and one current MSA student presented their research at the annual meeting of the Ontario Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers (). See details on our new publications page.
20 Sept 2010 鈥 MSA faculty member Dr. Wayne Forsythe together with Kamal Paudel (MSA '08) and Dr. Chris Marvin of the Canada Centre for Inland Waters published a peer-reviewed paper entitled in the Journal of Environmental Informatics.
10 Sept 2010 鈥 Emily Anderson (MSA 鈥07) received a 鈥渉ighly commended鈥 mention in the Emerald Literati Network鈥檚 Outstanding Paper Awards for an article on her MSA research on , which was co-authored by CSCA fellow Dr. Chuck Chakrapani and faculty advisor Dr. Tony Hernandez.
28 July 2010 鈥 Aaron Pothier鈥檚 ongoing MSA research with Dr. Andrew Millward on the urban forest on Ryerson鈥檚 campus was featured in the Ryerson news.
08 July 2010 鈥 MSA faculty member Dr. Wayne Forsythe along with incoming MSA student Adrian Gawedzki and Peter Rodriguez (MSA '09) presented a peer-reviewed paper entitled "Assessing Sediment Contamination in the Buffalo River" at the 22nd Symposium for Applied Geographic Information Processing (AGIT 2010) in Salzburg, Austria.
09 June 2010 鈥 Steven Farber (MSA 鈥04) is the first MSA graduate to complete a PhD. Congratulations to Steve on the successful defense of his thesis on 鈥淭he Social Costs of Automobility鈥 at McMaster University!
03 May 2010 - MSA student Mushtaq Hussain presented a poster on his team's fall term course project with the Ministry of the Environment at the Ontario Water Works Association conference in Windsor. On the same day, Mushtaq also sent his supervisor, MSA program director Dr. Claus Rinner, to the in Toronto to present a poster on his major research paper project!
18 April 2010 - The annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers drew crowds to Washington DC, including six MSA faculty members, four MSA graduates, and a current MSA student: Suzanne Briggs.
01 April 2010 - Congratulations to MSA faculty members Dr. Harald Bauder and Dr. Tony Hernandez on their new SSHRC research grants, and to Dr. Andrew Millward and Christopher Greene (MSA '09) on their MITACS grant to support Chris' doctoral reasearch.
03 March 2010 - Today, MSA students met with Prof. John Robinson from the University of British Columbia to discuss environmental, urban, and campus sustainability. Dr. Robinson was visiting Ryerson to give a Trudeau lecture.
27 Jan 2010 鈥 MSA graduate Sean Marshall has led the data analysis and mapping for a study that is reported in the and the . The study on spatio-temporal patterns of urban violent injury was conducted at St. Michael's Hospital, a frequent practicum placement host for MSA students.
17 Oct 2009 鈥 Three MSA students participated in the conference of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Ontario Division (): Suzanne Briggs, Peter Rodriguez, and Jacqueline Young.
9 Oct 2009 鈥 Dr. Tony Hernandez, director of the Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity and MSA faculty member, authored a new report on the increasing concentration in Canada's retail industry.
25 Sept 2009 鈥 Congratulations to the 17 MSA students who completed their degree requirements on time for Fall convocation! This month, we also welcomed 24 new students.
29 May 2009 鈥 MSA students Steven Chung, Aaron Sani, and Jacqueline Young met Geomatics graduate students from across Canada at the GEOIDE summer school in Vancouver. Their poster at the received the Delegate鈥檚 Choice award.
7 Feb 2009 鈥 MSA program director and faculty member Dr. Claus Rinner and 2007 MSA alumna Bonnie Veno were featured in a about the map-making renaissance fuelled by data and tools that are freely available on the Web.