Graduate student Doug Hopping has been ​awarded a summer Policy Communication Fellowship by the Institute for Social and Environmental Research-Nepal. As a fellow, Doug will spend the summer in Chitwan, Nepal participating in fieldwork and writing policy memos based on research from the long-running Chitwan Valley … Read more

First year PhD student Devran Koray Ocal has been awarded a faculty-graduate student joint research award by The Center for European Studies at UNC-CH.  This funding will support the project he is conducting with his adviser, Dr. Banu Gökarıksel, which examines how the Turkish Islamic Union of … Read more

Graduate student Mark Ortiz has been accepted to attend the Science and Technology Summer School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For more information, click here.

Ecuador was devastated on Saturday night by a 7.8 magnitude Earthquake. Many people are still trapped under the rubble and help still hasn’t arrived to some of the hardest-hit areas. However, the only thing greater than the magnitude of destruction has been the … Read more

Francisco Laso received the Norb Psuty Student Paper Merit Award (Best Illustrated Paper) at AAG’s Coastal and Marine Specialty Group.

Mike Hawkins was awarded the 2016 AAG Cultural Geography Specialty Group Masters Level Research Grant for his Masters Thesis Proposal at the Annual Conference in San Francisco. The award will help support his Masters summer research to be conducted this May-July in … Read more

Sertanya Reddy has been nominated for and accepted as a member of Frank Porter Graham Honor Society! The Society recognizes outstanding service provided to the University and community by graduate and professional students enrolled at the University of North Carolina … Read more

Scott Darius has been selected to attend the NEH ODH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, “Space and Place in Africana/Black Studies: An Institute on Spatial Humanities Theories, Methods and Practice for Africana Studies,” June 5-26 (2016).

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