Posted October 29, 2007

Senior Daya Snapp has been named Geography Department Scholar in Meteorology for Fall 2007.

A transfer from Kankakee Community College, Daya twice has been named to the Dean's List. She has worked in the department's GIS Center since the summer of 2006 and has been involved in numerous Center projects including translating U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Inland Electronic Navigation Charts (IENC) into base maps usable in Garmin Consumer grade GPS units. Daya was the lead in a project that created a township-level atlas for McDonough County 9-1-1 and she also was involved in a student project that constructed a 3D model of Macomb's Courthouse and Square.

She currently serves as the President of the Severe Weather Club was previously the Vice-President of both the Student Society of Geography and the Gamma Theta Upsilon honor society. Daya organized two organizational submissions during the 2006 Homecoming. Both submissions won first place among all small (non-greek) organizations. In April 2007, Daya received the Outstanding Senior in Geography Award from the Illinois Geographical Society for superior accomplishments in geographical study as well as for contributions to the department.

Daya will be recognized at the Fall 2007 Academic Honors Convocation on December 14.