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Feminist Geography Conference June 15 - 17, 2022

March 2, 2022

We warmly invite you to participate in the fourth international Feminist Geography Conference "Pushing Boundaries鈥 to be held virtually and in-person at the University of Colorado at Boulder, June 15-17, 2022. Our main goals are to gather as feminist geographers, to share our work (however 鈥渋n progress鈥 it may be),...

Behzad Vahedi

Behzad Vahedi: Outstanding Student Presentation Award

Feb. 23, 2022

Behzad Vahedi received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for his presentation at the 2021 Fall Meeting. This award is for the presentation titled "A Comparison Of Classic Deep Learning Architectures For Sea Ice Classification From SAR". Behzad's advisor Morteza Karimzadeh , post doc...

Emily Yeh

AAG Best Paper for Geography and Entrepreneurship

Feb. 23, 2022

Emily Yeh 's paper was awarded 鈥淎AG-Kaufmann Best Paper for Geography and Entrepreneurship鈥 for 2022. The cultural politics of new Tibetan entrepreneurship in contemporary China: Valorisation and the question of neoliberalism Abstract: Over the past decade, new forms of Tibetan entrepreneurship have emerged and proliferated in China, at the intersection...

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Jennifer Fluri TED Talk: Women's rights in Afghanistan: what worked, what didn't, and why

As the last American troops left Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban, a regime that the U.S spent 20 years and billions of dollars fighting, returned to power. Women鈥檚 rights activists and legislators fled the country in fear for their lives. The Taliban banned girls from attending high school &...

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John O'Loughlin: Will Russia recognize the independence of two eastern Ukraine republics? Here鈥檚 what people there think.

Feb. 18, 2022

Those who live in the Donbas region care more about bread-and-butter issues, our latest surveys reveal. At the heart of the current Russia-Ukraine crisis is the long-standing conflict in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, divided since 2014 into separate territories controlled by the Ukrainian government and by Russian-backed separatists...

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GIS Colorado 2022 Scholarship Announcement

Feb. 11, 2022

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student enrolled in a degree or a certificate program with GIS as a major or minor emphasis of study? Do you exhibit academic excellence in the geospatial technologies fields: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), or related disciplines? GIS Colorado...

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John O'Loughlin: As tensions in Ukraine increase, researcher worries for its people

Jan. 28, 2022

This week, the Pentagon announced that it was placing roughly 8,500 U.S. troops on 鈥渉eightened alert鈥濃攁 step toward potentially deploying them to friendly European nations near the Russian border. The move is the latest escalation surrounding Ukraine, an Eastern Europe nation home to about 44 million people. Late last year,...

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Professor John O'Loughlin: Ukrainians in our survey weren鈥檛 enthusiastic about NATO exercises close to Russia

Jan. 21, 2022

The Kremlin鈥檚 defense strategy depends on keeping a buffer between the Russian heartland and Europe Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the United States and NATO against encroaching in Russia鈥檚 backyard. Specific Russian concerns include Western support to the Ukrainian government that involves military training, procurement , exercises, infrastructure and...

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Fall 2021 Newsletter Published

Dec. 15, 2021

The 2021 Fall Newsletter has been published and is available for viewing! If you would like to contribute to the next newsletter, please contact Jeff Nicholson . If you are an alumnus, please fill out the Alumni Update form . The newsletter contains department news, alumni updates, and articles by...

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Spring 2022 Course Announcements

Dec. 1, 2021

Spring 2022: Many great Geography courses are available to you from our areas of focus: General Geography Physical Geography Environment-Society Human Geography Geographic Information Science (GIS) Review the course announcements to get a flavor for what each class is about and check out the Spring 2022 course schedule !

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