Honors & Awards
Babs Buttenfield received the national research award by the UCGIS (University Consortium for Geographic Information Science), for significant contributions to geospatial data generalization and modeling, multi-scale mapping
Professor Stefan Leyk received a $499,999 grant for the Imola project from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the titled project, "Collaborative Research: HNDS-I: Building Long-term, National-scale
Incoming听Geography听faculty member, Isaac Rivera has received the听Outstanding Dissertation听award from the Digital Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. His dissertation is
Millie Spencer has been awarded the 2024-2025 Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship.She is currently doing field work in Concepci贸n, Chile, analyzing glacier retreat and its impacts on downstream communities in south-central
During the 2024 Association of American Geographers (AAG) meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, Dr. Jessica Finlay was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award in Health and Medical Geography. This is a highly competitive award. According to
Emily Yeh has been named Professor听of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences in recognition of her exceptional service, teaching and research.听This revered听title听is reserved for scholars and artists of national and
Doctoral candidate Phurwa Gurung was awarded a National Geographic Society Committee听for Research and Exploration grant to work together with local Dolpopa scholars to document endangered oral听literature in Dolpo, northwest Nepal.National
Phurwa Gurung was awarded a Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for his听dissertation project, 鈥淩eordering highland territories: State-building, indigeneity and multispecies听worldmaking in the Himalaya.鈥 听It will
Christopher Picard of 精品SM在线影片 is one of 21 students nationwide to win support from United States Geospatial Intelligence FoundationChristopher Picard, a graduate student in geography at the 精品SM在线影片, is one of 21 students
Rupak Shrestha's dissertation,听The Border Came Between Us: Securing Development, Surveillance and Securitization, and Refugee Memory and Placemaking in Nepal, has been听shortlisted for an ICAS prize.听The International Convention of