John O'Loughlin received the Myron Weiner award of theÌýÌýfor distinguished scholarship at the association's annual meeting in New Orleans on February 20th. Before the reception in his honor and the presentation of a plaque, his research over the past 40 years on spatial analysis in political geography was the subject of panel presentations by 6 scholars from political science and geography, including his former PhD students Clionadh Raleigh and Andrew Linke.