Congratulations to Jake Layburn for successfully defending his thesis, which is titled:  Health Geographic Perspective on Mpox Outbreak in the United States.

Congratulations to Quinn Molloy for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled:  Auto-dependency, Equity, and Place: A comprehensive assessment of household spending on transportation in the United States.

Congratulations to Yunhe Cui for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled:  Bike-sharing: Towards Equitable Urban Transportation.

The UConn Board of Trustees voted at its meeting on Feb. 29 to establish a new department merging the Department of Geography with Urban and Community Studies and providing an administrative home for Environmental Studies.  The new Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community and Urban Studies (GSCU) will draw on existing research and teaching strengths to […]

Congratulations to Congcong Miao for earning an AAG Travel Award from the Applied Geography Specialty Group of the AAG. Congcong’s award winning paper is titled:  Assessing network-based traffic crash risk using prospective space-time scan statistic method.

Debs Ghosh is invited as a speaker for the Great Decision Lecture Series by the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan.  Her talk is on Tuesday, May 19th. More information (including info on registering for online access to the talk) can be found here:  worldmichigan.org/event/global-health

As part of the UConn Foundation’s Impact Series, Professor Anji Seth was among four researchers who discussed their research on climate change in Connecticut — and what the state can do about its impacts. You can read the full article from UConn Today here:  https://today.uconn.edu/2024/03/uconn-experts-discuss-climate-changes-impact-on-connecticut.

Congratulations to Congcong Miao, a PhD student in Geography, who has won the 2024 GIS-T Symposium Student Paper Contest hosted by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).  She is invited to present her paper on the spatiotemporal modeling of traffic crashes at the symposium from April 2-5, 2024, in Atlanta, GA.

In October 2023, Elsevier published an update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”. Congratulations to both Dr. Peter Chen and Dr. Chris Burton who are both named in the world’s top 2% of Scientists List. More information about this metric can be found here:  https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6  

Professor Peter Chen has led a project utilizing nationwide human mobility data to study retail food environments in the U.S. The study employs large-scale GPS tracking data covering over 94 million food store visits to understand how food activities can influence dietary health outcomes. The research has been published in Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42667-8).   Find the […]