Mark Ortiz has been named a Graduate Public Scholar by the Humanities for the Public Good Initiative with the office of Fine Arts and Humanities. Mark is a member of the first cohort of students across the College of Arts … Read more
Mark Ortiz is one of eight graduate students in the inaugural group of Druscilla French Fellows. Mark’s work focuses on youth involvement in climate policy and is generating new intellectual and applied spaces for considering the moral, ethical, and material … Read more
Dr. Arce Nazario reveals that Puerto Rico’s oral history is even more important after hurricane. http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/01/environmental-justice-0125
Graduate student Amy Braun was selected for the spring 2018 Future Faculty Fellowship Program at the UNC Center for Faculty Excellence. https://cfe.unc.edu/teaching-and-learning/teaching-as-a-graduate-student/future-faculty-fellowship-program-2/.
Dr. Michael Jerrett will be giving the Eyre Distinguished Lecture on Friday January 19th at 3:30pm in the Toy Lounge in Dey Hall. Dr. Jerrett is one of the most highly cited geographers in the world, and he focuses on … Read more
This study provides the first observation based understanding of global vegetation growth pattern during 2001-2015 using the most recent version of the remotely sensed data from NASA MODIS Collection 6 data. Overall, the Earth is greening, but vegetation growth patterns are highly … Read more
Rachel Cotterman’s ongoing work with the Backways Project and Harvey’s Chapel has recently been featured in the news. She has been interviewed with folks including Harold Russell and Tom Magnuson for several articles on their collective effort to identify pre-Jim Crow … Read more
Graduate student Trey Murphy interviewed on wind rights, mineral rights, and surface rights and the future of energy development in Texas. Hear the interview here: http://kut.org/post/texas-landowners-take-wind-out-their-sales
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
The NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a three-year grant in the amount of $720,000 to examine the effects of social and ecological factors, particularly, human migration and tourism on … Read more
