Dr. Ashley Ward using high tech innovative teaching methods- renci.org/blog/rencis-social-computing-room-in-action/

Altha Cravey’s summer work in Guatemala highlighted on the College’s Facebook website: https://www.facebook.com/UNC.College/photos/a.10152676090354515.1073741839.115462064514/10152673628254515/?type=3&theater

You can find the story here on our college website: http://college.unc.edu and at this direct URL: http://college.unc.edu/2014/08/13/summerfaculty14/ … Click on the link here go to the Facebook picture for Christian only.

Maggie Kovach has been awarded an EPA Star Grant in Public Health. The Star Grant provides full funding for two years.

Chris Hakkenberg has been selected to be awarded with the prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship to conduct a study on “Impacts of the Impact of Land-use/Land-cover Change on Plant Diversity: Scaling from Plots to Landscapes Using Multi-Sensor Remote … Read more

Kim Engie has been awarded the 2014 Department of Geography Cecile Daniel Osment Graduate Teaching Award.  The award honors excellence in graduate teaching, and is designed to reward effectiveness, enthusiasm, and passion for teaching Geography and communicating geographical ideas. Congratulations! The … Read more

Doug Eyre, Professor Emeritus of Geography at UNC passed away yesterday morning (April 28, 2014), surrounded by family.  Professor Eyre retired in 2001 after 44 years of teaching and service at UNC. He was the first chair of the geography … Read more

Johnathan Sugg won Honorable Mention in the Climate Specialty Group Student Paper Competition at the AAG (Association of American Geographers) annual meeting 2014.

Scott Kirsch has received the Jimmy and Judy Cox Asia Initiative Awards in the amount of $7,400 for a summer travel and research in in Singapore, Manila and Guam.

  Date Speaker Title/Event Location Jan 10 NA Graduate student /faculty meeting 220 Saunders Jan 17 Noer Fauzi Rachman Undoing Categorical Inequality: Struggles for Customary Territory, Forest Tenure Reforms, and  the Trajectory of Systemic Agrarian Conflicts in Indonesia 220 Saunders … Read more