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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.
Religion in the public sphere: The transformation of secularism and Muslim identities in Turkey While only a decade ago it was pious Muslims’ presence in the public sphere that was restricted by the secular state in Turkey, today a diversity … Read more
Conghe Song has received an award from NSF’s Dynamic Coupled Natural-Human (CNH) Systems program for his research on “CNH: The Effects of China’s Grain-for-Green Program on the Dynamics of Coupled Natural-Human System in Rural China”. The project is a multi-institutional … Read more
In July 2013, Diego Riveros-Iregui joins the Department of Geography. His research and teaching focus on Ecohydrology, watershed hydrology, biogeochemistry, land-atmosphere interactions, tropical hydrology, climate and land use/land cover change. [Click here for more information]
Erika Wise has been awarded an NSF Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) award for her research on “Detection of Long-term Variability in Storm Tracks Using Seasonally Resolved Tree-ring Isotope Records: Implications for Hydroclimatic Change in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.” The … Read more
Mike Emch has been awarded an NSF Geography and Space Science award for his research on “Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Drug Resistant Malaria in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” The award will run for three years from 9/1/13. Awarded amount: $345,000.
Gaby Valdivia who was just awarded an NSF grant (2013-2015) for a collaborative proposal entitled “Collaborative Proposal: The Impact of Oil Extraction, Regulatory Policy, and Environmental Practice on Native Amazon and Afro-Ecuadorian Communities.” The award is through the Cultural Anthropology division. … Read more
Nina Martin who has been selected as the next CURS Scholar-in-Residence.
In August, Associate Professor Betsy Olson joined the Department of Geography from the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching focus on development, religion, and inequality, with a particular emphasis on the geographies of youth.
