A renowned geographer at The University of Texas at Dallas will receive the 2021 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Research Award. The award recognizes that Berry’s early research on geographic information systems — specifically his conceptualization of the geographic matrix in 1964 — continues to shape practice and to ensure conceptual and functional linkages between geographic information science technique and the field’s intellectual core. “I am honored that its formative role has been acknowledged.”UCGIS is a nonprofit organization that creates and supports communities of practice for geographic information science research, education and policy endeavors in higher education. Dr. Daniel A. Griffith, Ashbel Smith Professor of geospatial information sciences in EPPS, received the award in 2017. He served as dean of the UT Dallas School of Social Sciences before engineering its transformation into the current-day EPPS.