Dr. Yihong Yuan

  • Associate Professor at Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies, College of Liberal Arts

Awards

2025

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. 2025

2022

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Best Paper for Map Use/Information Graphics, Applied Geography Conference. 2022
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Top 20 Finalist, Global Young Scientist in GIScience, The 3rd Global Young Scientist Forum. 2022

2021

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. 2021

2020

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Achievement in GIS Award, Society for Geographic Information Science. 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State University. 2020

2019

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Richard Wayne Simmons Geography Advocate Award. 2019

2016

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Service Learning (SL) Fellow, SL Excellence Program, Texas State University. 2016 - Present

2013

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, Chinese Ministry of Education. 2013 - 2014

2012

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Excellence in Research, Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara. 2012
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Student Scholarship, GIScience 2012. 2012

2010

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Dangermond Travel Award, Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara. 2010 - 2013

2009

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Excellent Award for Graduation, Peking University. 2009
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Person of the Year, School of Earth and Space Science, Peking University. 2009
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Undergraduate Academic Star, Peking University. 2009

2008

  • Award / Honor Recipient: National Scholarship, P. R. China. 2008

2007

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Dean's Award for Study Excellence, Peking University. 2007 - 2008
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Excellent Paper Award for Youth, 4th China Association for Geographic Information System Congress. 2007
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Dean's Award for Study Excellence, Peking University. 2007
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Excellent Award for Undergraduate Research Fund, Beijing Key Lab of Spatial Information, Integration and Its Applications. 2007

2006

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Yang Fuqing & Wang Yangyuan Academician Scholarship, Peking University. 2006 - 2007