John Frazier, distinguished service professor of geography, has been awarded 2015 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Distinguished Service Honors 鈥渇or his sustained and exceptional dedication to furthering the public good through applied academic and intellectual pursuits. The applied geography conference which he was instrumental in bringing to fruition is now in its 35th year. More recently he has expended similar energies toward funding and organizing the biennial Race, Ethnicity, and Place conferences which success largely because of his vision to preserve a place for intellectually divergent ideas on some of the most vexing and complicated issues in the world today.鈥 Frazier will be recognized at the AAG annual meeting in Chicago, April 21-25. .
John Frazier
March 20, 2015