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Geography Major Claire Strack has been awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) for her project entitled, “Geography of Vaccination Uptake and the Impact of Policy Change in Pennsylvania.”

UNC libraries celebrated 2019 GIS Day on Nov. 13, 2019 with the traditional Student Map Competition and Humanitarian Mapathon. Both events were sponsored by the Department of Geography and the University Libraries. The winners of the map competition were decided … Continued

  The Department of Geography and the University Libraries’ Davis Library Research Hub are collaborating to host two events on this year’s GIS DAY (Nov. 13, 2019). 1. Please submit your map via https://geography.unc.edu/private-forms/unc-gis-day-map-competition-submission/ before noon, Nov 12., 2019. Map … Continued

Congratulations to 2019 Geography Graduates! Picture of Graduation Cake on May 12, 2019.   Panoramic View of the Graduation Ceremony   McNally Award for Excellence in Geography and J Douglas Eyre Award for Outstanding Leadership: Ezra Rawitsch   Melinda Meade … Continued

Professor Diego Riveros-Iregui has received the 2019 J. Carlyle Sitterson Award for Teaching First-Year Students. This is a great honor for him and for the geography department, and reinforces the importance of geography for environmental research, teaching and service at … Continued

Geography major Walker Harrison’s research paper on “City Parks in Minneapolis, Minnesota: An Access and Accessibility Analysis” won second place in the recent UNC Innovative Use of GIS Competition. Below is a few maps created from his GIS project:   … Continued

The largest stream salamanders in the southeast, blackbelly salamanders (Desmognathus quadramaculatus) average four to seven inches in length. Although they typically hide under rocks during the day and hunt at night, some will boldly rest out in the open. Photographed … Continued

UNC libraries celebrated 2018 GIS Day on Nov. 14, 2018 with two activities – Student Map Competition and Humanitarian Mapathon. The event was sponsored by the Department of Geography and the University Libraries. The winners of the map competition were decided … Continued

Geography major Walker Harrison, who is taking Geog591 – Urban GIS Applications this semester, created a map for GIS Day map competition, and won second place! The first place was received by a geography graduate student – Rajesh Bista. Harrison included … Continued