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FacultyGraduate Students
Paul
Jargowsky's principal areas of research are neighborhood poverty,
segregation by race and class, and the effects of economic inequality.
Jargowsky's book, Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City
is a comprehensive examination of concentration of poverty in U.S.
metropolitan areas. His current work focuses on racial segregation and
connections between suburban sprawl and central city decline.
Ron Briggs
directs the instructional programs in geographic information sciences at UTD.
His primary areas of academic interest are in Geographic Information Systems,
especially applied to enhancing the efficiency of local government and to
furthering our understanding of metropolitan development patterns. His research
has been funded by the US Geological Service, NSF, and the US Department of
Transportation, as well as a number of state agencies.