Department News

Chris was awarded this graduate research fellowship through the National Science Foundation.

This award of $20,000 is for support of living expenses and/or tuition fees for 2012/2013.

Allison will work on projection EXTREMES which is a collaboration betweem CIRES, EBIO, Computer Science and the Boulder Valley School district. The purpose of the project is to develop and teach science/technology lessons with classroom teachers and help develop learning environments to support science content understanding. Allison will work directly...

This Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) from the Social Science Research Council and MIGRINTER, a research center of CNRS at the University of Poitiers enables Amy to participate in the 2012 DPDF program within the field of New Approaches to Transnationalism and Migratory Circulation, led by Professors Khachig Tölöyan, Emmanuel...

Cameron will be awarded $4000 as recipient of a 2012 Jerry O’Neal, National Park Service Student Fellowship.

Natalie won the Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers student paper competition.

Ian was awarded an EAPSI (East Asia Pacific Summer Institute) from the National Science Foundation. The award covers travel and living expenses, plus $5000 stipend. Ian will use the funds for research on Chinese tourists this summer in Taiwan, while affiliated with host researchers.

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.