Good news for potential summer GIS and engineering interns in Wausau,WI:Joe Gehin,the city’s director of public works,can offer between $8.19 and $10.84 per hour for the four open positions. The hope is the move will attract quality candidates.
Bowdoin College has six new tenured professors including Computer science professor Laura Toma who teaches courses on data structures and geographic information systems (GIS) algorithms and data structures. Much of Toma’s work addresses scalability issues in GIS. She was responsible for grant that helped build the college’s GIS lab.
The Northern Virginia Community College received a $492,458 grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to prepare students for work in the field of geospatial technology.