Congratulations to Geography PhD students Eloisa Berman-Arévalo, Adam Bledsoe, Priscilla Vaz, and Willie Wright, who have received Chancellor’s Doctoral Scholarship Candidacy Awards during Spring 2015 from the Graduate School’s Initiative for Minority Excellence at UNC. Congratulations also to Geography Phd … Read more
McNally Award: Ellen Currin Douglas Eyre Leadership Award: Omololu Refilwe Babatunde Melinda Meade Research Award: Katherine Batchelor 2015 Honors Theses: Omololu Babatunde: “Black Liberatory Senses of Place: Creating From Abject Otherness”. Katharine Batchelor: “An Analysis of the Religious Rights and … Read more
Carrie Hamilton who received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates award this month. The award will support Carrie’s summer research in Ecuador, where she is conducting an independent project, under the supervision of Dr. Valdivia, on “Oil … Read more
Drs. Clark Gray and Amanda Thompson from Anthropology receive the Interdisciplinary Initiatives Grant Award from the College of Arts and Sciences for the project “Measuring Social Resilience in Rural Mozambique”.
Sarah Schmitt has been awarded an Outstanding Mention from the Geological Society of America for ‘exceptional merit in conception and presentation.’ She is one of ten recipients chosen from among 784 applicants reviewed this year and will be presented a … Read more
Geography PhD student Matt Dannenberg has been awarded the Graduate School’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the academic year 2015-2016. Matt’s dissertation title is “Estimating Terrestrial Primary Production through Integration of Remote Sensing and Dendrochronology.” Matt is co-advised by Dr. Erika … Read more
PhD student Stevie Larson has been awarded the Cecile Daniel Osment Graduate Award which is the Department of Geography’s top award for graduate students to reward effectiveness, enthusiasm, and passion for teaching geography.
PhD student Mark Janko has been given the Melinda S. Meade Graduate Student Travel Award by the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers to present his paper titled “Incorporating both space and place in … Read more
The Development Geography Specialty Group’s Gary Gaile Award is a travel grant that supports research in development geographies. I am using the grant to aide my work (i.e. archival collection, interviews, participant observation) on gentrification and urban redevelopment in the … Read more
Professor Betsy Olson awarded Student Undergraduate Teaching Award (SUTA), more information from the following link-https://uncstudentorgs.collegiatelink.net/organization/sutasa/about
