Bachelor's Degree in Geographic Science - Department of Integrated Science and Technology (ISAT)

Geography Graduate Amanda Reinholtz Awarded NSF Fellowship

Amanda Reinholtz has been very busy since her May 2008 graduation from JMU. Shortly after graduating, she and another JMU graduate bummed around Argentina and Uruguay for three months. Then, she landed a job working for qPublic, a company that creates and maintains public access websites for county tax appraisal offices.  While with qPublic, she worked with the GIS data/programming script, helped make promotional materials, and provided customer service.

This past summer, she worked at Camp Roanoke as a counselor for the residential adventure camps where she had the opportunity to spend her entire summer outside, something she calls “a priceless job benefit”.

In late August, she packed all her belongings into her Subaru and began a leisurely trip out to Oregon where she will be studying hydrology through the Geography Department at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Amanda is a recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. As a recipient, she will receive an annual stipend of $30,000, plus $10,000 to cover tuition and fees, and $1,000 for travel to conduct research. Amanda was one of the seven students to travel to La Gonave with Dr. Mary Tacy during spring break 2008. Her research proposal to NSF was titled "Groundwater Monitoring in La Gonave, Haiti”.