Department of Geography News

The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) elected Barbara "babs" Buttenfield a UCGIS Fellow. According to UCGIS, her most important research contributions are in the area of map generalization and multiple representations. Her papers on the structure and scaling properties of cartographic lines were truly seminal and helped others...

Amy was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student award for 2013-2014. Amy will use this award to support her research work in China. The [Fulbright U.S. Student Program] http://us.fulbrightonline.org/about/fulbright-us-student-program ) provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or English Teaching Assistantships. During their grants, Fulbrighters will meet, work, live with and...

Joel was selected to attend the 2013 Global Environments Summer Academy in Bern, Switzerland with full funding from the Global Diversity Foundation and the Rachael Carson Center for Environment and Society. See Global Environments Summer Academy for more information.

Joel was awarded a graduate fellowship from The Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences. See The Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences for more information.

Lauren was awarded a CARTSS Graduate Fellowship that will be used to support her dissertation research on REDD and the making of carbon markets in the Peruvian Amazon See Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences for more information.

Julia has been awarded a James A. and Jeanne B. DeSana Graduate Research Scholarship.

Scholar-Athlete Awards are presented to student athletes of the sophomore and junior classes and male and female members from the senior class who have accumulated the highest cumulative grade point average in their respective class. Ian, who is a member of the CU Ski Team, maintained a 3.799 GPA and...

Sarah was awarded the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute grant funded by the National Science Foundation. Sarah will be hosted by Professor Wang Hongyang in the Urban Planning and Design department at Nanjing University. She will use the grant to support her summer field research for her MA thesis.

A person searching through the massive expanse of data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau in search of details about a specific neighborhood may increasingly find statistics with colossal margins of error, such as an average income of $50,000 plus or minus $50,000. Professor Seth Spielman, involved in the National...

Mark Williams does a radio interview for the National Science Foundation's Science360 Radio. The radio spot was part of the NSF Earth Day series.