2024.09.01 16:00Start Working as an Assistant Professor in Salisbury UniversityWataru has joined the Department of Geography & Geosciences at Salisbury University, Maryland as a tenure-track assistant professor from AY24-25! Excited to contribut...
2024.06.05 16:00Wataru received ICA Scholarship at CaGIS+UCGISAt the 2024 CaGIS+UCGIS Symposium, Wataru, a postdoctoral researcher in the HeRoP lab, was awarded the ICA Scholarship by the International Cartographic Association (ICA)...
2023.08.16 05:00Wataru graduated with a Ph.D. in Geography and starts working as a postdoc!Wataru graduated with a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! Also, he starts working as a postdoc in the Healthy Regions & Policy L...
2023.08.01 17:00New Paper has just been publishedVery excited to share that our work has just been published in Journal of Transport & Health!Morioka, W., Kwan, M.-P., Hino, K., & Yamada, I. (2023). How accessib...
2023.03.26 20:003rd Prize in the SAM Student Paper Competition at the 2023 AAGWataru received the 3rd Prize in the SAM Student Paper Competition at the 2023 AAG Annual Meeting Denver, CO.
2023.02.25 02:003rd-place Winner at 2023 SESE Research ReviewWataru received 3rd place winner in the student poster competition at the 2023 SESE Research Review for his poster entitled "Spatially-weighted network dual K function".
2022.12.07 14:00Wataru was featured in the Department Annual NewsletterWataru Morioka was featured in the GGIS Annual Newsletter 2022 Fall. Please take a look!https://ggis.illinois.edu/system/files/2022-12/GGIS_Newsletter_Fall22_web.pdf
2022.11.16 23:00Received Graduate College Conference Presentation AwardWataru receives a Graduate College Conference Presentation Award for participating in GISRUK 2023.
2022.11.01 17:00Wataru has joined Dr. Kolak's research projectWataru starts working as a research assistant on Dr. Kolak’s research project, “Measuring Opioid Risk Environments”. https://healthyregions.org/
2022.10.22 22:003rd-place Winner at 2021 WLD-AAG MeetingWataru received 3rd place winner in the Doctoral Oral Paper Competition at the 2022 West Lakes Division AAG Conference for his presentation entitled "Influence of the Cha...
2022.09.10 17:00Wataru has joined Dr. Cidell's research projectWataru starts working as a research assistant on Dr. Cidell’s research project, “Railyards and Environmental Justice in Chicago”. https://publish.illinois.edu/smiil-...
2022.08.22 17:00Received the Dissertation Completion FellowshipWataru received a highly competitive Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship in the academic year 2022-2023!