… Maia Call selected as US Policy Communication Fellow by the Population Reference Bureau. For more information about the US Policy Communication Training Program, click here. For 2016-2017 Class Biographies, click here. For twitter message, click here. …
Sara Smith (Principal Investigator). “Impacts of Education-Driven Urban Migration on Youth Aspirations and Identity” National Science Foundation Geography and Spatial Science Program Grant, BCS-1561072, ($250,000)2016-2019. Around the world, young individuals, especially those who are rural, first generation, indigenous, and racialized minorities, seek educational opportunities in cities to improve their lives. This temporary migration and result…
Dr. Elizabeth Havice and colleague Dr. Liam Campling (Queen Mary, University of London) have recently returned from the Solomon Islands where they offered a week-long training on trade and fisheries, hosted by the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA). Twenty-four individuals working in trade, legal and fisheries departments in 12 different FFA member countries participated in the training. Small and remote island states, FFA member countr…
… Gökarıksel, B. & A. Secor (2016) The post-Islamist problematic: questions of religion and difference in everyday life. Social & Cultural Geography, 1-20. …
… Kirsch, S. (2016) Insular territories: US colonial science, geopolitics, and the (re) mapping of the Philippines. The Geographical Journal, 182, 2-14. …
… Smith, S. (2016) Intimacy and angst in the field. Gender, Place & Culture, 23, 134-146. …
Dr. Olson (PI), with collaborator Martin Hunicutt (co-I), has been awarded a ‘pipeline to proposal’ grant from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), to establish the foundation of community-centered research on the needs of youth caregivers and older adults. Youth caregivers, a typically unrecognized and vulnerable population, provide care and assistance to ill, disabled, or aging individuals. In 2005, there were 1.3-1.4 milli…
Graduate student Mark Ortiz, along with 23 other students from 6 countries, recently visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a Summer School sponsored by Wisconsin’s Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies. The summer school was part of a Holtz Center-funded thematic cluster entitled “Disclosing/Enclosing: The Paradoxes of Information Flow in Knowledge Communities” designed to build interdisciplinary connections and forge new inte…
… Müller, M. & J. Pickles (2015) Global games, local rules: Mega-events in the post-socialist world. European Urban and Regional Studies, 22, 121-127. …
… Fuhrmann, C. M., M. M. Sugg, C. E. Konrad II & A. Waller (2016) Impact of Extreme Heat Events on Emergency Department Visits in North Carolina (2007–2011). Journal of community health, 41, 146-156. …
