Sarah Schmitt (1st year Ph.D. student) has been awarded a student research grant from the Geological Society of America. Sarah works with Dr. Diego Riveros-Iregui and her project will focus on “Understanding Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Water Cycling in the … Read more
Chris Neubert has been awarded the prestigious NSF GRFP fellowship. Chris has also received FLAS funding to study Tamil over the summer.
Our very own Stevie Larson’s on the front page of today’s Daily Tar Heel! http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/03/students-explore-asian-american-identities Stevie spoke on a panel about Asian-American identities, immigration and race in the U.S. for Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.
“The findings of Maggie’s research are being incorporated into a model that predicts the number of emergency room visits on hot days,” said adviser Charles Konrad, Ph.D. For more details about this, please click here.
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.
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
