Department News

Lindsay has won a grant from the University of Wisconsin, Madison's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program "Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Southwest China" funded by National Science Foundation. The grant will fund Skog's summer research on sacred landscapes in northwestern Yunnan.

Ian Rowen has won a grant from the University of Wisconsin, Madison's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program "Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Southwest China" funded by National Science Foundation. The grant will fund Rowen's summer research on ecotourism in northwestern Yunnan. See "UW Madison's IGERT China...

Ian Rowen has won a scholarship to study Indonesian during Summer of 2011 at Universitas Negeri Malang in Malang, Indonesia through the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program at the US Department of State. Indonesian will help Rowen continue his research on the political and sociocultural impacts of tourism in Asia...

Amelia Schubert has won a Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship from the Center for Asian Studies for the 2011-12 academic year. The fellowship will allow Schubert to study advanced Chinese language in preparation for her dissertation research on the Chinese sending communities of Korean-Chinese migrants to South Korea. See...

Amanda was awarded a travel grant from the United Government of Graduate Students (UGGS). The award will be used for travel to the Association of American Geographers annual conference in Seattle, April 12-16, 2011 ($300). UGGS is the primary advocacy group for graduate and professional students on the CU-Boulder campus...

Adam was awarded a Graduate School fellowship for travel to annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Seattle, April 12-16, 2011 ($300).

Adam was awarded a travel grant from the United Government of Graduate Students (UGGS). The award will be used for travel to the Association of American Geographers annual conference in Seattle, April 12-16, 2011 ($300). UGGS is the primary advocacy group for graduate and professional students on the CU-Boulder campus...

Morgan is the recipient of a Young Investigator's Award to participate in the BASIN 2011 conference on the Roles of Stable Isotopes in Water Cycle Research, Keystone, Colorado, March 29-31.

Mark Williams' “Water Resources in the 4 Corners” outreach project will be featured at the CU Regents meeting 22 February in Boulder. Linda Molner Kelley, Ph.D, Director for University Outreach at Continuing Education & Professional Studies will share the new outreach and engagement website with the Regents. They have chosen...

Michelle will receive a non-stipendiary fellowship in the Harvard Kennedy School's Program on Science, Technology and Society (STS) for academic year 2011-2012. While there, Michele will continue her work on how "expertise" and "sustainability" take form in the local context of harvesters' daily interactions and livelihoods in Northest Yunnan, China...