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April 2008:
*Erich Mueller has received an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2007 AGU Fall Meeting.

*Amy Zader has been awarded a Pruitt National Dissertation Fellowship for 2008-2009 from the Society of Women Geographers.
*Jessica Schwarz has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for 2008-2011.

* Jessica Schwarz, Stephanie Booker, Teresa Chapman have been awarded the Adam Kolff Memorial Research Fellowship.
*Afton Sather-Knutsen has been awarded a U.S. Department of State "Critical Language Scholorship" for Summer 2008.
*Afton-Sather-Knutsen has been awarded a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for Academic year Fall 2008-Spring 2009.
*Amy Zader has been awarded a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for Summer 2008.


March 2008:
*Abby Hickcox has been awarded a Boulder County Parks and Open Space Research Grant.
*Carlos Ezequiel Chalbaud, Eric Michael Guy, Justin Glen Marler, and Mathhew Louis Martinich have been invited to join Phi Betta Kappa.


February 2008:
*Rebecca Theobald has accepted a position as Assistant Professor Adjoint, Dept. of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.


January 2008:
*Amy Zader has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant


2007

December:

*Naomi Arcand, Ty Atkins, Andres Holz, Teresa Legg, and Julie Malmberg have each been awarded A Department of Geography Graduate Student  Special Project Award.

*Eungul Lee has accepted a position as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.


October:
*Lauren H. Daniel has been invited to join Phi Beta Kappa.

September:
*Eric Wolf has been awarded Second Place in the AAG Great-Plains-Rocky Mountain Division Student paper Competition.


August:
*Joni Palmer has been awarded a Mabel Duncan Memorial Scholarship, Fall 2007-Spring 2008.

*Joshua Perdue has been awarded a Mabel Duncan Memorial Scholarship Fall 2007-Spring 2008.


July:
*Maria Tsukernik has accepted a Post-Doctoral Position at NCAR-Climate and Global Dynamics Division.


June:
*Andrew Linke has been awarded a US State Department "Critical Language Scholarship" for partidipatio in the Arabic Program in Cairo, Egype, June to August 2007.


May:

*Marco Antonsich has been awarded the Department of Geography Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching for GPTI's.
*Jordan Clayton has accepted a position as Assistant Professor, Georgia State University.
*Jeremy Smith has been awarded the Department of Geography Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching for TA's.


April:
*Jamie Gillen has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University of Ohio.

*Ted Holland has been awarded the AAG Political Geography Specialty Group Best Student Paper.
*Travis Klingberg has been awarded a Beverly Sears Grant.
*Eungul Lee has been awarded a Gilbert White Fellowship for 2007-2008.
*Eungul Lee has been awarded First Place in the Climate Specialty Group Competition
*Andrew Linke has been awarded a US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship in Arabic.
*Chris McMorran has been awarded a Gilbert White Fellowship for 2007-2008.
*Rosemany Sherriff has accepted a poistion as Assitant Professor, University of Kentucky.


March:  
*Travis Klingberg has been awarded an National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

*Adam Levy has been awarded a fellowship to attend Indiana University's Summer Workshop of South Eastern European Languages (SWSEEL)

*Travis Klingberg has been awarded an Adam Kolff Memorial Research Fellowship.
*Terry Legg has been awarded an Adam Kolff Memorial Research Fellowship.

*Travis Klingberg has been awarded a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for Summer 2007.


February:  
*Dominik Kulakowski has accepted a position as Assistant Professor, Clark University.

*Ian Feinhandler has accepted a position as Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University.

*Ted Holland as been awarded a Center for Humanities and Arts Fellowship for 2007-08.

*Amy Zader has been awarded the NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute for 2007.


January:  
*Lucas Ward has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.

*Nicholas Sitko has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.


2006:
December:  
*Marco Antonsich has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Birmingham for 2007-2009.

*Susan Riggins has been awarded a CZEN International Fellowship.


November:
*Amy Zader has been awarded The Third Graduate Seminar on China at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.


October:  
*Aliza Zlotoff has been awarded an UGGS Travel Grant Award.


August:
*Micheline van Riemsdijk has been awarded a Provost's Fellowship in Technology for 2006-2007.

*Ted Holland has been awarded a Provost's Fellowship in Technology for 2006-2007.

*Mariyam Medovaya has been awarded a Provost's Fellowship in Libraries for 2006-2007.

*Ling Shen has been awarded a Graduate Teacher Program Intelligibility Scholarship.


July:
*Andrew Gustafson has been awarded an Adopt-a-Graduate Student Award.


June:
*Frank Witmer has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award.

*Travis Klingberg has been awarded a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, 2005-2006.

*Yaffa Truelove has been awarded a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, 2005-2006.


May:
*Jamie Gillen has been awar
ded a Gilbert White Fellowship for 2006-07.

*Monica Ogra has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Gettysburg College.
*Monica Ogra has been awarded an AAG Asian Specialty Group Paper Award.

*Adina Racoviteanu has been awarded a NASA Earth System Science Fellowship.

*Clionadh Raleigh has been awarded  a Gilbert White Fellowship for 2006-07.


April:
*Ian Feinhandler has been awarded the Department of Geography Excellence in Graduate Teaching GPTI Award.

*Ted Holland has been awarded a Russian FLAS Fellowship for Indiana University's Summer Workshop for Eastern European and Slavic Languages.

*Lisa Jordan has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Florida State University.

*Chris McMorran has been awarded a Graduate School Part-Time Instructor Teaching Excellence Award.

*Daniel Trudeau has been awarded the Department of Geography Excellence in Graduate Teaching GPTI Award.
*Benson Wilder has been awarded the Department of Geography Excellence in Graduate Teaching TA Award.


March:  
*Juan Paritsis has been awarded a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.

*Nancy Pullen has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State University.
*Adina Racoviteanu has been awarded a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.

 *Nicholas Sitko has been awarded a Benjamin Brown Award for Internationa Study.

*Nicholas Sitko has been awarded an NSF Summer Field Training Institute - Zambia.

*Micheline van Riemsdijk has been selected as a Center  for Humanities and Arts Fellow.
*Micheline van Riemsdijk has been awarded a Fellowship to attend the 4th Annual Summer Institute on International Migration, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, San Diego.


February:
*Andres Holz has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.

*Chris McMorran has been awarded a Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship.

*Juan Paritsis has been awarded an NSF Doctoral dissertatin Research Improvement Grant.

 *Micheline van Riemsdijk has been awarded an AAG George and Viola Hoffman Award.

January:  
Chris McMorran
has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award.

Adina Racoviteanu has been awarded a GLIMS Young Researcher Workshop Student Travel Award.

Adina Racoviteanu has been awarded an ASPRS Rocky Mountain Region Scholarship.


2005
December
Daniel Trudeau has been hired as an assistant professor at Macalester College,
St. Paul, MN.


November
Chris McMorran has been awarded a Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Workshop.

October
Yaffa Truelove has been awarded a Benjamin Brown Fellowship for International Study.

September
Rebecca Theobald has been awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant

 Jamie Gillen has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for Research in Vietnam, 2006.

Lisa Jordan has been awarded the Best Graduate Paper Award, Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the AAG.


August
 Andrew Meyer has been awarded a Provost's Fellowship in Technology, 2005-2006

Kevin Sampson has been awarded an AGEP Fellowship, 2005-2006

Andres Holz has been awarded a Provost's Fellowship in Technology, 2005-2006

Mariyam Medovaya has been awarded and Environmental Protection Agency STAR Grant.

Jason Sibold has been awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Grant, Chile.


June
Jason Sibold has been awarded a Fulbright Foreign Scholarship.

  Geneva Mixon has been awarded a Colorado Mountain Club Foundation Grant.


May
Jordan Clayton has been awarded a Department of Geography Annual Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching - GPTI

Sebastian Araya has been awarded a Department of Geography Annual Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching - TA

 

April
Meredith Knauf won an AAG Mountain Geography Specialty Group Student Paper award.

Yaffa Truelove has been awarded a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.

Jordan Clayton has won an AAG Geomorphology Specialty Group Student Paper award.

Betsy Olson has won a University Graduate Student Teaching Excellence award.

Marco Antonsich  won an AAG Political Geography Specialty Group Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement award.

Vanessa Empinotti has been awarded a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.

Carla Vandervoort has been awarded an AAG Biogeography Specialty Group Thesis Research Grant.

Andrés Holz has been awarded an AAG Biogeography Specialty Group Doctoral Research Grant.

Andrés Holz has been awarded a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.

Luke Ward has been awarded a Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.

Chris McMorran has won an AAG Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group Student Paper award.

 

March
Marco Antonsich has won an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement award.

 

February
Betsy Olson has accepted a Lecturer position at Lancaster University.

Rebecca Theobald has been awarded the Center for Humanities and the Arts "Powers of Wonder" Fellowship 2005-2006.

Jamie Gillen has been awarded the Retired Faculty Association Summer Research Grant.



2004
December 
Vanessa Empinotti has been awarded a CAPES/FULBRIGHT International Scholarship for Doctoral Program 2005-2007.

 

September
Daniel Cordalis has won the Dillon Chapter of the Navajo Nation award.

Daniel Cordalis has won the American Indian Graduate Center award.

Daniel Cordalis has been awarded the EPA Travel Lands Environmental Science Scholarship.

Brownyn Owen and Kristina Wynne have received UGGS Travel Grants for the Fall 2004.

August
Micheline Van Riemsdijk received an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award
Vanessa Empinotti has been awarded a research grant from the Women’s Forum of Colorado Foundation.

May
Manoela Borges  has won the Gilbert White Doctoral Fellowship in Geography.
Daniel Trudeau has won the Gilbert White Doctoral Fellowship in Geography.
Stacy Drury has won the Geography Department Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching.

April 
Jordan Clayton has been awarded the Gilbert F. White Doctoral Fellowship in Geography.

John O'Loughlin
received the 2004 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
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Marco Antonsich won the AAG Political Geography Specialty Group Award for Best Student Research Paper.
Vanessa Empinotti has been awarded a research grant from the University of Essex Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies.
Neil Frakes has won the CU Graduate School Sussman Environmental Fellowship.

March
Vanessa Empinotti has been awarded the Dorothy Falk Award for Graduate Student Research

Jason Janke accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Rebecca Theobald has been awarded the AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group Award for Master's Thesis Research.

January
James Raymer accepted a position as a lecturer in demography at the University of Southampton.
Jordan Clayton received the American Geophysical Union Outstanding Paper Award.

Kristi Gibson has been awarded the CU- Dorothy Martin Award for a Woman Doctoral Student
Brian King accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Texas-Austin.

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