Department News

Hayes Hart-Thompson received the CU Boulder Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) Tier 2 Grant, for their proposal titled, Geo-Justice: Human-Centered Design for K-12 Geography Design-a-thon.

Sara Fleming received the CU Boulder Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) Tier 2 Grant. The proposal is titled, Colorado Mobile Home Park Preservation & Community Ownership Website.

Kate Carlson has been awarded the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium’s Emerging Professional Award in 2024, for accomplishments while at the State of Minnesota (MNIT DNR). The award is given by her peers in the Minnesota geospatial community. The Emerging Professional Award is meant to recognize individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary application(s)...

Jack D. Ives passed away on September 15, 2024. He was a Canadian montologist, an honorary adjunct research professor of geography and environmental studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, an author, and a prominent advocate of mountain issues at the global level. From 1967 to 1979 Ives served...

Professors John O’Loughlin (Professor of Geography and Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Science), Terry McCabe (Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Science and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology) and Andrew Linke (Associate Professor of Geography at University of Utah and former PhD student in Geography) have been awarded $804,990 from the National Science Foundation...

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Please join us in welcoming our incoming graduates for Fall 2024! Back row: Colin Gilbert, Lauren Thomas, Maren Roeske, Virgil Alfred, Matthew Woodland, Lars Schwaebe, Tyler McIntosh Middle row: Danyan Leng, Hayes Hart-Thompson, Sydney Carr, Emma Tyrrell, Maddy Rich, Anshul Sharma Front row: Esmee Mulder, Zhe Lin, Yangchengsi Zhang, Yanxiao...

Babs Buttenfield received the national research award by the UCGIS (University Consortium for Geographic Information Science), for significant contributions to geospatial data generalization and modeling, multi-scale mapping and geodatabase design, most notably through her continuing Research Faculty affiliation with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information...

Professor Stefan Leyk received a $499,999 grant for the Imola project from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the titled project, "Collaborat ive Research: HNDS-I: Building Long-term, National-scale Spatiotemporal Data Collections from Historical Map Archives" . Collaborators on the project include Associate Professor Yao-Yi Chiang from the University of Minnesota...

Reprinted from the College of Arts and Science's Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine by Rachel Sauer (June 13th, 2024) Researchers Emily Yeh and Brian Catlos are recognized for prior career achievements and exceptional promise Two University of Colorado Boulder scholars have been named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows , recognizing not only...