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Robert B. McMaster is Professor of Geography and Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Minnesota. He received a B.A. (cum laude) from Syracuse University in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Geography and Meteorology from the University of Kansas in 1983. At the University of Minnesota, his research interests include automated generalization (including algorithmic development and testing, the development of conceptual models, and interface design), environmental risk assessment (including assessing environmental injustice to hazardous materials, the development of new spatial methodologies for environmental justice, and the development of risk assessment models), Geographic information science and society (public participation GIS, alternative representations), and the history of U.S. academic cartography. In 1999, he was elected as a Vice President of the International Cartographic Association, and was re-elected in 2003.