Many UNC alumni may want to know a geography question – Where Our Proud UNC Chapel Hill Alumni Live? Our doctoral student Rajesh Bista created a map to solve this puzzle for this year’s UNC GIS Day map competition, and won the … Read more
Erika Wise was awarded a new, 3-year National Science Foundation grant (2018-2021) with Cary Mock from the University of South Carolina, titled, “High Frequency Hydroclimate Extremes and Synoptic Climate Drivers in Western North America at the End of the Little … Read more
Sara Smith and Mabel Gergan (graduate alum, now faculty at Florida State University) have been awarded an Antipode International Workshop Grant in collaboration with Malini Ranganathan (American University), Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza (University of Leeds), Sapana Doshi (University of Arizona), and Sneha Krishnan (University … Read more
Sertanya Reddy received the Jessie Ball duPont Dissertation Fellowship. This named fellowship is awarded to a scholar who is making contributions to adolescent studies. Sertanya has a long history of researching with children, youth, and young adults that precedes her PhD … Read more
Sarah Schmitt was awarded the Thomas S. and Helen Borda Royster and Snowden and Elspeth Merck Henry Dissertation Fellowship within the Royster Society of Fellows for the academic year 2018-2019. Sarah is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate studying water-ecosystem interactions … Read more
Sertanya Reddy has been awarded the 2018 Gwendolyn Harrison Smith Community Award. The selection committee was impressed by the tremendous amount of work that Sertanya has done to help develop more meaningful and lasting ways to address diversity on campus, … Read more
Each year, The Graduate School honors graduate students in programs throughout our University for their powerful discoveries that contribute to a better future for people and communities in North Carolina. PhD Candidate Pavithra Vasudevan’s project, entitled. ‘In Aluminum’s Shadows: Finding … Read more
Dr. Banu Gökarıksel receives the American Association of Geographers 2018 Enhancing Diversity Award. You can find out more about the award here: http://www.aag.org/diversityaward
2017 UNC GIS Day (Nov. 15, 2017) event had three activities: the traditional map competition, scavenger hunt, and Student-led Humanitarian Mapathon. These activities were sponsored by the following organizations at UNC-CH – UNC Library, UNC Department of Geography, and UNC … Read more
2017 UNC GIS Day (Nov. 15, 2017) event had three activities: the traditional map competition, scavenger hunt, and Student-led Humanitarian Mapathon. These activities were sponsored by the following organizations at UNC-CH – UNC Library, UNC Department of Geography, and UNC … Read more
