Babs Buttenfield

A poster presented by Sean and others last June at the American Meteorological Society 17th Symposium won 2nd place in the poster student presentation. Burns, S. P., S. Metzger, P. D. Blanken, G. Burba, E. Swiatek, J. Li, B. Conrad, H. Luo, and J. Taylor, 2014: A comparison of infrared...

Seth Spielman's research conducted through a National Science Foundation grant profiled in The Atlantic. Read article

Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest academic honor society, with chapters at 280 universities and colleges in America. Founded in 1776, PBK boasts over half a million current members and a strong alumni association. Congratulations to Abigail Peters who was invited to join Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for Fall 2014.

University of Colorado Boulder is ranked #2 among the top universities for Geosciences. US News and World Report

Read Ian Rowen's commentary "Hong Kong Umbrella protests are here to stay"

Ian Rowen's article is titled "In Search of Sunflower Seeds in Hong Kong"

A massive new University of Colorado Boulder study indicates there is a statistical link between hotter temperatures generated by climate change and the risk of armed conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. CU-Boulder Professor John O’Loughlin led a research team that assessed more than 78,000 armed conflicts between 1980 and 2012 in...

The Office of International Education announced that Geography undergraduate, Xiwei Guo, was selected for the Muneeb Kamal International Student of the Year 2014 award. This award is in recognition of Xiwei's outstanding contributions to promote international understanding. Congratulations Xiwei.

Ph.D. candidate Mike MacFerrin, along with his adviser Dr. Waleed Abdalati and collaborators at the University of Washington, received notice of a NASA award for MacFerrin's proposal "Quantifying Firn Compaction and its Implications for Altimetry-based Mass Balance Estimates of the Greenland Ice Sheet." The project (3-years, $733,000) will complete MacFerrin's...

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship will support Joel's dissertation fieldwork in Paraguay from February 2014 to January 2015. Joel's research comprises a comparative case study of three Inter-American Court of Human Rights cases in favor of indigenous territorial claims in the Paraguayan Chaco. Using a variety of qualitative...