Professor Thomas Cooke has accepted the Editorship of Urban Geography effective January 1, 2015. Read more…
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Professor Ghosh receives NIH Career Development Award
Assistant Professor Debs Ghosh has received an NIH-K01 Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award for her project ‘Connecting People, Places, and Barriers: The effect of these connections on adherence and retention in care for HIV positive drug users’. Read more…
UConn Geographers meet up at ESRI User Conference
UConn geographers from past and present met up at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego (July 14-18). It was great to see old friends and catch up with what people are up to these days. Read more…
Geography professor Atkinson-Palombo studies impact of wind turbines on real estate prices
Associate Professor Carol Atkinson-Palombo was the lead author on a report that evaluated the impact of wind turbines on property prices in Massachusetts. Read more…
Graduate Students win awards at AAG
The Geography Department would like to congratulate Kate Johnson and Mengyao Zhang for receiving student awards at the 2014 AAG conference. Read more…
Jeff Osleeb awarded the 2014 Anderson Medal
Congratulations to Professor and Department Head (emeritus) Jeffrey Osleeb, who has been awarded the 2014 Anderson medal at this years AAG conference. The James R. Anderson Medal is the highest honor bestowed by the Applied Geography Specialty Group. Read more…
Debs Ghosh receives AAUP Teaching Excellence Award
Assistant Professor Debarchana (Debs) Ghosh has been awarded the AAUP award for Teaching Innovation. Congratulations to Dr. Ghosh for her outstanding work in the classroom. Read more…
Prof. Cooke selected as a Fulbright Scholar
Prof. Cooke has been selected as a Fulbright US Scholar to work in the Department of Demography at the University of Groningen during his sabbatical in Fall 2015. Read more…
“Lost” New England Revealed by High-Tech Archaeology
Kate Johnson appeared on NPR’s Where We Live to discuss her recent research on how LiDAR and GIS have been used to help uncover New England’s history. She was also interviewed by National Geographic and her interview along some new graphics were posted on their Daily News page. Read more…
Assistant Professor Will Ouimet receives NSF RAPID grant to study the 2013 Colorado floods
Dr. Will Ouimet is the principal investigator on a NSF RAPID grant titled “RAPID: Characterizing Sediment Mobilization and Landscape Response to the Combined Effects of Wildfire and Extreme Flooding along Fourmile Canyon, Front Range Colorado”. Read more…