Graduate student Mark Ortiz has been accepted to attend the Science and Technology Summer School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For more information, click here.
See the piece by Jack Largess in the DTH and the article about the non-profit Solar Head of State featuring James Ellsmoor and Rebecca Chaisson. Way to go all! For more information, check this link.
Ecuador was devastated on Saturday night by a 7.8 magnitude Earthquake. Many people are still trapped under the rubble and help still hasn’t arrived to some of the hardest-hit areas. However, the only thing greater than the magnitude of destruction has been the … Read more
As recipient of the Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors, Dr. Lentz will be at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ in spring 2017.
Professor Mike Emch gave a plenary talk at the 13th International Conference for Urban Health which was a joint conference with the AAG called Place & Health. The Plenary was titled “Geography and Urban Health: Collaborating to Advance Sustainable Urban Transitions”. … Read more
The Galapagos Science Center, directed by geography professor, Steve Walsh, receives the 2016 Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award by NAFSA, the Association of International Educators. For more information, click here.
Francisco Laso received the Norb Psuty Student Paper Merit Award (Best Illustrated Paper) at AAG’s Coastal and Marine Specialty Group.
Mike Hawkins was awarded the 2016 AAG Cultural Geography Specialty Group Masters Level Research Grant for his Masters Thesis Proposal at the Annual Conference in San Francisco. The award will help support his Masters summer research to be conducted this May-July in … Read more
Sertanya Reddy has been nominated for and accepted as a member of Frank Porter Graham Honor Society! The Society recognizes outstanding service provided to the University and community by graduate and professional students enrolled at the University of North Carolina … Read more
Scott Darius has been selected to attend the NEH ODH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, “Space and Place in Africana/Black Studies: An Institute on Spatial Humanities Theories, Methods and Practice for Africana Studies,” June 5-26 (2016).
