Job opening: Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Geographic Analysis
The CGA is seeking an outstanding spatial researcher to join the CGA as Postdoctoral Fellow. Read the full job description and apply .
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Fisher Prize Award Winners 2026
Entries to the 2026 Fisher Prize competition were of extremely high quality, making the decision a very tough one for the judges. Here are the results: 2026 Fisher Prize Winner, Undergraduate Category: Matthew Scott Tan for the entry “Salt, fat, acid...
New Workshop: Using Python for Geospatial Analysis and Visualization
CGA will be offering one more workshop this Spring: Using Python for Geospatial Analysis and Visualization on May 22. Read all of the details and register.
2026 Esri Innovation Prize Winner
The 2026 Esri Innovation Prize has been awarded to Harvard College student Matthew Scott Tan for the entry “ Cloudy with a Chance of Compute: Mapping the hidden geography of AI compute across 8,000 cities — and who it leaves behind” . Judges comments...
2026 CGA Conference: October 2nd and 3rd
The 2026 CGA Conference "Celebrating Geographic Analysis: Past, Present, and Future" will be held October 2nd and 3rd. Read all of the details.
Harvard Map Collection presentation April 3 by Lao Hua Law
2026 Harvard Nieman Fellow and journalist Yao Hua Law will present "Democratizing Data: A Geospatial Case Study" on Friday, April 3 at 1:30 p.m. in the Lamont Library, Forum Room (Floor 3) Read all of the details and register for this upcoming talk.
Professor Geoff Boeing presents on 3/9 and 3/10
We are excited to welcome Geoff Boeing from University of Southern California to the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) this week. We've got two great talks lined up. The first is on Monday at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Noon for a...
Professor Elizabeth Delmelle presents on 2/26 and 2/27
We are super excited to welcome Elizabeth Delmelle from University of Pennsylvania to the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) this week (snow gods permitting!). We've got two great talks lined up, all about neighborhood change, housing, and novel...
2026 Workshops Underway
The CGA workshop series has started out strong in 2026 with Introduction to GIS and Geocoding with ArcGIS. Six workshops remain, with Visual Programming for GIS using KNIME being next up on Friday, 2/13. See the full workshop list for the remainder of...
Harvard Map Collection Undergraduate Open House, and Love Data week
Come for map treasures, puzzles, and map making! Friday, January 30, 2026, 2-4 PM, Pusey Library. Read all of the details and register. Also, Join Harvard Library as they celebrate International Love Data Week starting February 9. Read all about it.
CGA 2026 Workshops
On GIS Day (November 19) the CGA announced our Spring 2026 workshop offerings, free for Harvard ID holders. Various GIS concepts will be taught through applying ArcGIS, QGIS, Python, R, KNIME, Google Earth Engine and more. View the dates of the workshops...
A New Logo for the CGA
We are happy to announce Harvard undergraduate student Jōsh Mysoré is the winner of the CGA logo design contest! The new logo is displayed below, and is now featured on the CGA website . Thank you to all of the students who submitted designs, and...