Alice Hill selected to receive Colorado Environmental Management Society Scholarship

April 2, 2015

Alice will be awarded a $1500. scholarships from Colorado Environmental Management Society Scholarship Committee. Alice was selected for this scholarship based on her academic performance, experience and extracurricular activities, and demonstrated commitment to a career in the environmental field. See Colorado Environmental Management Society for more information.

Meredith DeBoom has been named a P.E.O. Evelyn K. Aitken Named Scholar

April 1, 2015

Meredith has been named a Philanthropic Education Organization (P.E.O.) Evelyn K. Aitken Named Scholar. The P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA) were established in 1991 to provide substantial merit-based awards for women pursuing doctoral degrees in the U.S. and Canada. Of the 85 doctoral students selected as P.E.O. Scholars in 2015, the...

Emily Yeh’s book named a Foreign Affairs best book of 2014 on Asia and the Pacific

March 27, 2015

Emily Yeh's Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development named a Foreign Affairs best book of 2014 on Asia and the Pacific.

Ian Rowen publishes article in the BBC Chinese

March 26, 2015

Ian writes about the political impacts of Chinese tourism to Taiwan and Hong Kong. BBC article in Chinese

Ian Rowen interviewed about Asian social movements in New Bloom

March 26, 2015

Ian compares and contrasts spatial organization, tactics, and daily life in the Hong Kong Umbrella and Taiwan Sunflower Movements. New Bloom interview

Ian Rowen publishes article in Anthropology News

March 26, 2015

Ian's piece discusses researcher risk and positionality in the context of his participant-observation of the Taiwan Sunflower and Hong Kong Umbrella Movements.

Study: Western forests decimated by pine beetles not more likely to burn

March 25, 2015

Western U.S. forests killed by the mountain pine beetle epidemic are no more at risk to burn than healthy Western forests, according to new findings by the University of Colorado Boulder that fly in the face of both public perception and policy. The CU-Boulder study authors looked at the three...

Julia Hicks receives DDRI award

March 18, 2015

Julia has received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award from the National Science Foundation. This grant will support her research on "Avian Community Response to Broad-Scale Ecological Disturbances Across Spruce-Fir Forests".

Ian Rowen quoted by the BBC about the backlash against Chinese tourists

March 18, 2015

Ian Rowen quoted by the BBC about the backlash against Chinese tourists Read BBC article

Spruce bark beetle outbreaks hurt squirrel populations

March 18, 2015

Bryan Hankinson, a fall 2014 CU-Boulder student who graduated magna cum laude in Geography, developed his honors thesis by investigating the relationship between an increase in spruce bark beetle population and a decrease in American red squirrel population. Read Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine article

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