Department of Geography News

The $1500 graduate fellowship was awarded by the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus. Caitlin will use this fellowship to support her research on “State Formation and Property Relations in Georgia: A Case Study of IDP Housing".

This $1000 scholarship recognizes academic achievement and encourages continuing success in outstanding cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and geographic information science (GIScience). The scholarship also recognizes achievement or potential for achievement in original research advancing the specific disciplines of cartography or GIScience.

Preston will use the award to travel to Portland, Oregon to attend the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. See United Government of Graduate Students for more information.

The SYLFF Research Abroad fellowship is from The Tokyo Foundation. Lindsay will use this fellowship to fund her research on global discourses and sacred landscapes in Khumbu, Nepal.

The Department of Geography received an Assett (Arts and Sciences Support of Education Through Technology) award relating to the use of technology primarily for teaching and learning. The funding will be used to implement the use of mobile web and applications into many of the Geography course labs and recitations...

Fellowship is conferred on less than 0.1% of the 60,000 AGU members from 148 countries in any given year and recognizes scientists who have attained acknowledged eminence in the Earth and space sciences. The primary criteria for evaluation are major breakthroughs or discoveries and paradigm shifts. Williams was elected "for...

Meagan was awarded a 2012-2013 American Councils Advanced Research Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State, Title VIII Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Independent States of the Former Soviet Union). Megan will use the fellowship to fund her research on mosque construction in Moscow.

Ian was awarded a $500 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) grant to support his continuing Indonesian language study. The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State sponsors the Critical Language Scholarship Program.

The National Science Foundation and the US Census Bureau have awarded Seth Spielman a five-year, $1.2 million grant to establish an NSF-Census Research Node at the University of Colorado. The node's research will focus on using new forms of spatial micro-data to improve our understanding of the geographic micro-structure of...

CU Boulder's team (Ted Holland, Alana Wilson, Ian Rowen, Sam Smith, Mark Stover, and Preston Cumming) WON the Regional Geography Bowl at this years Great Plains Rocky Mountain Regional AAG meeting on Friday. There were six teams present, including perennial favorite Kansas State. CU Geography won by a whopping 59...