The Tri-Cities, also known as Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo or Kitchener-Waterloo, is a metropolitan area located in Southern Ontario, Canada.
 It is centred on the cities of Kitchener, Cambridge, and Waterloo.
 These cities, as well as surrounding rural municipalities, collectively make up the Regional Municipality of Waterloo.
 The census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 523,894 in 2016, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Ontario, after Toronto, Ottawa and Hamilton, and the tenth largest metropolitan area in the country.
 The tri-cities area is known for its high concentration of information technology companies – including BlackBerry Limited, OpenText, Kik, and Maplesoft – leading it to be frequently characterized as "Canada's Silicon Valley".
 The Tri-Cities are also university towns with a large student population from the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Conestoga College.
West Palm Beach is a city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.
 It is one of the three main cities in South Florida.
 The population was 100,343 (revised) at the 2010 census.
 The University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR) estimates a 2016 population of 108,896, a 7.9% increase from 2010.
 It is the oldest municipality in the Miami metropolitan area, having been incorporated as a city two years before Miami in November 1894.
 Although West Palm Beach is located approximately 68 mi north of Downtown Miami, it is still considered a principal city within the Miami metropolitan area, due to the solid urbanization between both cities.
 The estimated population of the Miami metropolitan area, which includes all of Palm Beach County, was 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
The Western Metropolitan Area University Association (首都圏西部大学単位互換協定会) is a Japanese association for higher education, with members located primarily in western part of Tokyo Metropolitan Area.
 The current leading institute is Kokushikan University.
 Students at the member schools can cross-register for credits toward their own school's degrees without any additional fees.
 The association has created a substantial number of research and educational collaborations, including e-learning training program.
Mid-Missouri is a loosely-defined region comprising the central area of the U.S. state of Missouri.
 The region's largest city is Columbia (population 100,000+).
 The Missouri state capital, Jefferson City, and the University of Missouri are also located here.
 The region also includes portions of the Lake of the Ozarks, the Ozark Mountains, and the Missouri Rhineland.
 Mid-Missouri is centered on two contiguous metropolitan areas: the Columbia Metropolitan Area and the Jefferson City Metropolitan Area, which together have a population of over 300,000.
The Inland Empire metropolitan area and region of Southern California, which sits directly east of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, covers more than 27000 sqmi .
 The metropolitan area consists of Riverside County and San Bernardino County and is home to over 4 million people.
 The Inland Empire contains many museums, which defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
 It also has non-profit and university art galleries.
 Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included in this list.
Laura Otis is an American historian of science, and Professor of English, at Emory University.
" North Central Florida" is a region of the U.S. state of Florida which comprises the north-central part of the state and encompasses the Gainesville Metropolitan Statistical Area (Alachua and Gilchrist counties), and the North Florida counties of Bradford, Columbia, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Marion, Putnam, Suwannee and Union.
 The region's largest city is Gainesville, home of the University of Florida, while the largest metropolitan area is the Ocala Metropolitan Area.
 Other principal cities in the region include Lake City, Live Oak, and Palatka.
 As of 2010, the region had a population of 873,189.
Sacramento ( ; ] ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.
 It is at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley, known as the Sacramento Valley.
 Its estimated 2016 population of 493,025 makes it the sixth-largest city in California, the fastest-growing big city in the state, and the 35th largest city in the United States.
 Sacramento is the cultural and economic core of the Sacramento metropolitan area, which includes seven counties with a 2010 population of 2,414,783.
 Its metropolitan area is the fourth largest in California after the Greater Los Angeles area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the San Diego metropolitan area, and is the 27th largest in the United States.
 In 2002, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University conducted for "Time" magazine named Sacramento "America's Most Diverse City".
The University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) is a public research university serving the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.
 Located in Kansas City, Missouri, UMKC is one of four system campuses that collectively constitute the University of Missouri.
 UMKC is spread across multiple locales; the main Volker Campus, home to the majority of university operations, is located in Kansas City's Rockhill neighborhood, east of the Country Club Plaza, and adjacent to both the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the world-renowned Linda Hall Library.
 In 2017 the University, in collaboration with Truman Medical Center, Children's Mercy Hospital, the Missouri Health Department, the Jackson County Medical Examiners Office, and the Missouri Department of Mental Health Behavioral Medicine, formed the UMKC Health Sciences District on Hospital Hill.
 This district is a first-in-the-nation partnership between local and state governments, the university, and these nationally recognized healthcare faculties, designed to promote collaboration in research, innovation, education, grant funding, and community outreach, for the advancement of health and wellness in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.
 Also in 2017, the university announced plans to expand its metropolitan identity with the construction of a downtown Campus for the Arts, located near the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
 The university's enrollment as of 2015 exceeded more than 16,600 students.
Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States.
 The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by the Methodist Episcopal Church and was named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory.
 In 1915, the college relocated to metropolitan Atlanta and was rechartered as Emory University.
 The university is the second-oldest private institution of higher education in Georgia and among the fifty oldest private universities in the United States.
 Emory is frequently cited as one of the world's leading research universities and one of the top institutions in the United States.

Question: Laura Otis is a professor at a university in which metropolitan area?
Answer: Atlanta