Geography and UNC libraries celebrated 2020 GIS Day on Nov. 18 with a traditional map contest. The winners of the map competition were decided by a panel of 5 GIS specialists, including two UNC GIS librarians: Philip McDaniel and Tia … Read more

Geography graduate student Anna Cherry won third place in 2020 UNC GIS Day Map Contest. Her map title is “United States Morrill Act Land Cessions and Land Grant Universities”. Descriptions about this map from Anna: “The relation between indigenous groups, … Read more

Students in “Social Geography: Radical Black Thought” are exploring radical Black theory, action and imagination in a course led by Chérie Rivers Ndaliko. “The idea of the course is to take the ideas that are put forward by radical Black … Read more

When Francisco Laso ’21 Ph.D. was a field research assistant at the Galápagos National Park in 2010, he was shocked to learn that there was very limited collaboration with farmers on conservation issues. So, he has spent the past decade … Read more

Beavers are often considered a nuisance species and subsequently removed from various areas. Nevertheless, beaver dams may remove pollutants from streams and slow down nutrient runoff, Riveros-Iregui said. The project will attempt to determine whether beaver dams are cleaning streams … Read more

UNC’s Institute for Arts and Humanities began granting the award in 2008 to honor George Johnson, one of the Institute’s greatest ambassadors, and to highlight commendable contributions by UNC faculty in the arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences. “The George … Read more

Recent graduate and major in geography, Ezra Rawitsch (BA, 2019) just published a journal article called “Seeing Sapa” in URBAN PEOPLE | LIDÉ MĚSTA 22 | 2020 based on his undergraduate thesis. Bravo! For more information, please visit the link.

A year after three geography undergraduate students participated in a research experience in Ecuador, they are now featured during University Research Week. UNC-Chapel Hill celebrates University Research Week Oct. 19-23. Learn more about virtual events at researchweek.unc.edu. Follow this link … Read more

Claire Strack has been awarded a Gillian T. Cell Senior Thesis Research Award to support her senior honors thesis research project, “Regional Geography of Vaccination Uptake and the Impacts of Policy Change in Pennsylvania”.