Faculty Profiles

Dr. Yongmei Lu

Award / Honor Recipient: Spirit of Geography Award, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Texas State University. April 2024 - Present

Award / Honor Recipient: Member, Honors Committee, American Association of Geographers (AAG), American Association of Geographers (AAG). June 2023 - Present

Award / Honor Recipient: Board Member, University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). July 2022 - Present

Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Leadership Award, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Texas State University. April 2021 - 2020

Award / Honor Recipient: Member, International Advisory Board, Graduate School of Creative Approaches to Public Spaces (CAPS), Rennes II University, France, Rennes II University, France. 2020 - Present
Award / Honor Recipient: Chair, Research Committee, University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). July 2020 - July 2022
Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State University Alumni Association. 2020
Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Leadership Award, Department of Geography. April 2020 - 2019

Award / Honor Recipient: Board Member, Race, Ethnicity and People Conference (REP), Race, Ethnicity and People Conference (REP). September 2018 - Present

Award / Honor Recipient: Elsevier Atlas Award for publication of research paper with broad impact, Elsvier Publishing. 2016
Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. 2016
Award / Honor Recipient: College of Liberal Arts Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activity, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. 2016

Award / Honor Recipient: Honorary Professor of International Studies, Texas State University. August 1, 2014 - Present
Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. 2014
Award / Honor Recipient: Faculty Development Leave in Fall 2014, Texas State University. 2014

Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Professor Award, Graduate Forum, Department of Geography, Texas State University. 2013

Award / Honor Recipient: Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award for Higher Education, National Council for Geographic Education. 2012
Award / Honor Recipient: Service of Excellence Award, International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences. 2012

Award / Honor Recipient: Travel Award, NSF through AAG to attend and present a research paper at. November 2011

Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Texas State University, the Alfred H. Nolle Chapter of the. 2010

Award / Honor Recipient: Spring Presidential Research Leave Award, Texas State University. 2009

Award / Honor Recipient: Faculty Development Leave for Academic Year 2018-19, Texas State University. August 2008 - May 2009
Award / Honor Recipient: University Foundation of Excellence Award, Texas State University – San Marcos. 2008
Award / Honor Recipient: Elected to Marcus Who is Who in America, 110th edition. 2008

Award / Honor Recipient: Faculty members who make significant impact to student’s academic career, Graduating Student Recognition of Campus. 2007
Award / Honor Recipient: Expert Advisory Group for the Geographic Profiling in Counterterrorism Project, Center for Intelligence and Information at Texas State University by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2007
Award / Honor Recipient: Attend and present research paper at the Ninth Crime Mapping Research Conference, Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety (MAPS) program of the National Institute of Justice. March 28, 2007 - March 31, 2007

Award / Honor Recipient: attend and present research paper at the Seventh Annual International Crime Mapping Research Conference, Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety (MAPS) program of the National Institute of Justice. March 31, 2004 - April 3, 2004

Award / Honor Recipient: Leading Delegate of Texas State University to the University Consortium of Geographic Information Sciences, University Consortium of Geographic Information Science. 2003 - Present
Award / Honor Recipient: Young Scholars, U.S. National Committee for International Cartographic Association (ICA), 21st International Cartographic Conference (ICC). August 10, 2003 - August 16, 2003
Award / Honor Recipient: Travel Award, U.S. National Committee for International Cartographic Association (ICA), 21st International Cartographic Conference (ICC). August 10, 2003 - August 16, 2003

Award / Honor Recipient: ESRI UCGIS Young Scholar Awards, University Consortium of Geographic Information Sciences. June 26, 2002 - June 30, 2002

Award / Honor Recipient: attend and present a paper at the Fifth Annual International Crime Mapping Research Conference, National Institute of Justice. December 1, 2001 - December 4, 2001

Award / Honor Recipient: GIScience Bowl Winner, University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). June 2000
Award / Honor Recipient: 2000 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Annual Summer Assembly, Graduate Student Paper Awards. June 21, 2000 - June 24, 2000

Award / Honor Recipient: outstanding merit and accomplishments as a graduate student of the State University of New York at Buffalo – Graduate School, Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. 1999
Award / Honor Recipient: Student Travel Awards, AAG for the 95th AAG Annual Conference. March 24, 1999 - March 27, 1999
Award / Honor Recipient: Student Travel Awards, Student Paper Competition, AAG GIS Specialty Group. 95th AAG Annual Conference. March 24, 1999 - March 27, 1999
Award / Honor Recipient: One of the five finalists for the Student Paper Competition, AAG GIS Specialty Group- 95th AAG Annual Conference. March 24, 1999 - March 27, 1999
Award / Honor Recipient: Student Travel Awards, AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group, 95th AAG Annual Conference. March 24, 1999 - March 27, 1999

Award / Honor Recipient: Graduate Student Fellowship, National Center for Geographical Information Analysis (NCGIA), for the 3rd National Conference on GIS in Public Health. August 18, 1998 - August 20, 1998
Award / Honor Recipient: Student Travel Grant, Graduate School, State University of New York at Buffalo, for the 3rd National Conference on GIS in Public Health. August 18, 1998 - August 20, 1998