Individual Research Projects (IRP) for the Young Scholars Program (YSP) at Florida State University

Summer 2015

An ASAP Researcher, Dr. Ozguven and his graduate students Mehmet Baran Ulak and Hidayet Ozel volunteered to sponsor two individual research projects (IRP) for the Young Scholars Program (YSP) at Florida State University. As a part of the program two high school students, Bianca Dyer and Nicholas Callegari, were mentored for six weeks in order for them to learn a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) software named ArcGIS. GIS-based maps and visualizations were used to evaluate the accessibility of the hospitals with cancer facilities with respect to cancer populations, supported with several case studies using the spatial and population characteristics and the Florida roadway network.