PhD candidates Heng Cai and Volodymyr Mihunov were selected to receive a travel award of $2,000 each to attend the UCGIS Summer School on Collaborative Problem Solving with CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science, held at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and UCGIS Symposium held at Arlington, VA, May 2017. Mihunov received the People’s Choice award ($500) for his poster presented at the UCGIS symposium. His poster, coauthored with students and earlier career scientists from different universities, is titled “Food, Water, and Energy Nexus: The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Productivity”.