Lily Herbert and her partner featured in Carolina Graduate School Magazine. Link for the news. 

Lisa Marshall (MA Geography 2017) has been elected Vice-President/President-elect of the American Nuclear Society. Lisa is director of outreach, retention, and engagement, and assistant extension professor, in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University.

The flyer should contain all the information. For alt text you can include: Maymester 2023 (May 17th – June 2nd) Course Offering: Geog 121 – Geographies of Globalization Time: M-F from 1:15 – 4:30 Instructor: Michelle Padley Remote and in … Read more

Michelle Padley has been awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year by the UNC Graduate School for her project “Military Pasts, City Futures: The Transition of Brooks, San Antonio, Texas from Military Base to Urban Hub.” This … Read more

Broadly Bryttani’s research interests lie at the intersection of extreme weather/climate change and the health of Black mothers in the Southeastern US. Her Master’s Thesis investigated the relationship between extreme temperatures (ET) and adverse birth outcomes for Black women in … Read more

Geography major Sarah Followill receives the G. Herbert Stout Award and will present at NC GIS conference on March 9th. Below is her presentation abstract: Atlanta, Georgia’s urban infrastructure is continuously expanding, covering an increasingly alarming amount of what was, … Read more

Geography PHD student Grey Shipman receives the G. Herbert Stout Award and presented at NC GIS conference next week on March 9th. Below is his presentation abstract: Public transportation can enable individuals without vehicles to access improved employment opportunities, essential … Read more

The Bringing Southeast Asia Home project, funded by the Luce Foundation and led by PI Prof. Lentz, aims to strengthen Southeast Asian studies at UNC and build links with the region for research, teaching, and study abroad. This DTH article … Read more

New book by Dr. Scott Kirsch, “American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines: Insular Empire” American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines tells the story of U.S. colonialists who attempted, in the first decades of the twentieth century, to build an enduring … Read more

Kriddie Whitmore received a Student Research Grant from the Geological Society of America. Kriddie also received ‘outstanding mention’ for exceptional merit – one of the top 10 proposals among 348 winners. Kriddie’s research proposal was titled “Estimating Surface Area of … Read more