Capstone Projects

Through the MUSA capstone project, students are able to apply the spatial methods learned in the GIS and statistical coursework to their content area in a research project. The projects typically involve a detailed research proposal, literature review, data collection, analysis and writing. Below are a few examples of recent student capstone projects.

2006
- Peggy Wu, Analysis of Community Investments over Time

2007
- Jeanette Churchill, Geographic Accessibility to Healthcare in Kenya
- Kristen Copeland, Black Immigrants in Philadelphia: Racial Segregation and Assimilation
- Elizabeth Houser, A Decision for Farmland Preservation: Utilizing GIS and Logistic Regression to Analyze Landowner Motivation in Lancaster County, PA
- Pravin Mathur, Agent-based Modeling of Urban Phenomena in GIS
- Benjamin Mearns, Dyno-Ride: Automatic Route-based Ridesharing on the Web
- Tricia Chal-Onn, Identifying Areas of HIV/AIDS Laboratories in Ethiopia

2008
- Darryl Depencier, Measuring Multi-modal Travel Costs in the Vicinity of Limited-Access Transportation Networks
- Ankit Jain, Website Display of GIS Data in SVG Format
- Mike Schneider, Do the Demographic Attributes of Residents Predict Donations to Presidential Candidates? A GIS Approach
- John Wackis, Philadelphia Sheriff Sale Foreclosures and High Cost Lending, 2004-2006: A Geographic Analysis