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UAM MAGAZINE
Dr. Robert Weih
Receives Honor
Dr. Robert Weih, a member of the
School of Forest Resources faculty at
UAM since 1994, was recently named the
Distinguished Alumnus of the Year by the
School of Forestry at Northern Arizona
University.
Weih graduated from Northern Arizona
in 1982 with a bachelor of science
degree in forestry and range management
and holds a master’s degree from
the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D.
in forest biometrics from Virginia Tech.
The NAU School of Forestry has presented
its Distinguished Alumnus Award
annually since 1990. “Our past recipients
include a diverse array of alumni who
have gone on to successful careers in forest
science, government agencies such as
the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, and private
industry,” said Dr. James A. Allen, professor
and executive director of the NAU
School of Forestry. “Dr. Weih is in some
very good company.”
A pioneer in the discipline of spatial
information systems using geographic
information systems, remote sensing,
global positioning and aerial photography,
Weih was instrumental in developing
the spatial information systems degree
program at UAM. UAM’s School of Forest
Resources was one of the first forestry
programs to offer degrees in spatial
information systems within a forestry
environment.
“This is a wonderful and welldeserved
honor for Dr. Weih,” said Dr.
Philip Tappe, dean of the School of
Forest Resources and director of the
Arkansas Forest Resources Center. “Bob’s
work in spatial information systems has
positioned UAM as a national leader in a
cutting edge discipline. Bob’s dedication,
his commitment to excellence in all that
he does, serves as an example not only
for the School of Forest Resources, but
for the institution as a whole.”
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Weih has directed the Spatial Information
Systems Program since 2003. Prior
to joining the UAM faculty, he worked
as a remote sensing and GIS consultant
in the College of Natural Resources at
Colorado State University. He earlier
served as a senior scientist at the Space
Remote Sensing Center in the Institute of
Technology Development at the NASA
Stennis Space Center.
He also worked as a natural resource
GIS/remote sensing advisor for the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations in Jakarta, Indonesia, was
a research assistant at Virginia Tech, a
project research analyst for the Coconino
County Highway Department in Flagstaff,
Ariz., and a lead forest technician in
Utah’s Dixie National Forest.
Top Programmers
C
omputer programming teams from
UAM swept the top two spots in the
CIS COBOL division of the 2012 Arkansas
Collegiate Programming Contest hosted
recently by Hendrix College in Conway.
The UAM team of Timothy Taylor of
Star City, Amy Emberson of Searcy, and
Treshai Hudspeth of Monticello won the
competition while the team of Bo Smith
of White Hall, Robert Moffatt and Kevin
Stewart of Crossett placed second.
Twenty-five teams from colleges and
universities throughout the state took
part in the competition, which is sponsored
annually by the TresNet Division of
Acxiom Corporation. Ten of the 25 teams
competed in the CIS COBOL division
while 15 competed in the CIS non-
COBOL division.
Parents’ Day / Homecoming Dates
ates for the two biggest events of the fall semester have
been set so be sure to mark your calendars:
Parent/Family Appreciation Day – September 15
Homecoming – October 13