Dr. Persha gave a talk last week at the 2015 World Bank Land and Poverty conference, presenting baseline results on an ongoing study of linkages between land tenure security and smallholder investment in climate-smart agriculture in Zambia. The study is … Read more
Darius Scott has been selected as an awardee in the Ford Foundation 2015 Predoctoral Fellowship Competition.
Matt Dannenberg just received an AAG Dissertation Research Grant, which consists of a certificate and cash prize of $1,000. More information about AAG Dissertation Research Grant.
Graduate student Adam Bledsoe has article published in Counterpunch about his views on renaming Saunders Hall. Geography graduate students also published a video about renaming Saunders Hall. You can find the video on YouTube.
Darius Scott has been awarded a Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council. The fellowship provides support for six weeks of summer fieldwork and participation in summer workshops in Berkeley, CA and Minneapolis, Minn.
Wise, E. K., M. L. Wrzesien, M. P. Dannenberg & D. L. McGinnis (2014) Cool-Season Precipitation Patterns Associated with Teleconnection Interactions in the United States.Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
Kirsch, S. (2015) Cultural geography III Objects of culture and humanity, or, re-‘thinging’the Anthropocene landscape. Progress in Human Geography, 0309132514566741.
Breckheimer, I., N. M. Haddad, W. F. Morris, A. M. Trainor, W. R. Fields, R. JOBE, B. R. Hudgens, A. Moody & J. R. Walters (2014) Defining and evaluating the umbrella species concept for conserving and restoring landscape connectivity. Conservation … Read more
Dr. Erika Wise is the recipient of the 2015 Climate Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers Paper of the Year Award for her paper on “Persistence of pressure patterns over North America and the North Pacific since AD 1500”. She … Read more
Petition calling for renaming Saunders Hall written by UNC students is published in Daily Tar Heel- http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/02/letter-students-and-staff-call-for-hurston-hall
