Graduate Student Maia Call won the Population Specialty Group’s Student Paper Award for her dissertation paper on Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, and Migration in Uganda http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/AbstractDetail.cfm?AbstractID=77971

Wright, W. J. (2017) Memorial for Alton Sterling, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2016. Southeastern Geographer, 57, 1-3.

Graduate student Angelica Gomez was selected to receive a grant from the Faculty for the Future Fellowship Program (FFFP). Sponsored by Schlumberger Foundation, this program funds women from developing countries and emergent economies to prepare for Ph.D. or post-doctoral studies … Read more

Cornelius O. Cathey Award This award was established in 1987 in memory of Cornelius O. Cathey, professor of history from 1947-1974 and dean of student affairs from 1963 to 1972. It is given annually to the student who has made … Read more

Call, M., T. Mayer, S. Sellers, D. Ebanks, M. Bertalan, E. Nebie & C. Gray (2017) Socio-environmental drivers of forest change in rural Uganda. Land Use Policy, 62, 49-58.

Maxwell, W. (2017) The Back Swamp drainage project, Robeson County, North Carolina: Biopolitical intervention in the lives of Indian farmers. Water History, 1-20.

Graduate student Priscilla will receive the Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants- http://www.unc.edu/campus-updates/twenty-four-earn-2017-university-teaching-awards-carolina/.  Priscilla will be recognized during halftime of the men’s basketball game against Pittsburgh on Jan. 31.

Geography graduate student Angus Lyall has been offered the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI). Angus’ dissertation project explores the contentious negotiations between indigenous groups and the Ecuadorian state … Read more

Innovative Use of GIS competition is sponsored by the Department of Geography, GIS Graduate Certificate Program and the Davis Library Research Hub every other year. In the recent competition, Geography graduate student Trey Murphy won second place with his research … Read more

Olson, E. & S. Reddy. 2016. Geographies of Youth Religiosity and Spirituality. In Establishing Geographies of Children and Young People. Springer.