Professor Debs Ghosh will be giving the Saturday Keynote Address at UConn’s 5th Annual Global Health Symposium.  The title of her talk is Health Geography = f (people, place, and health). Registration is still open for the event:  https://glohsoc.uconn.edu/register22.

Aidan Caron, a GIScience major at UConn, has earned a 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Award.  His project is titled “Improving Access to Connecticut Summer Meal Programs with Geographic Information Systems”.  Aiden plans on developing an interactive web GIS platform to improve the participation of the Connecticut Summer Meal Programs which will help stakeholders […]

Congratulations to Dr. Andy Jolly-Ballantine for receiving the AAG 2022 Harm J. de Blij Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching This annual award recognizes outstanding achievement in teaching undergraduate Geography including the use of innovative teaching methods. The recipients are instructors for whom undergraduate teaching is a primary responsibility.  This award is generously funded by […]

Congratulations to Adam Gallaher for receiving an AAG Energy and Environment Specialty Group Dissertation Data & Field Work Award for his work on estimating replacement dynamics between electric vehicles and internal combustion engine vehicles in Connecticut from 2013 – 2021.  Great job Adam.

Congratulations to Weixuan Lyu, a second-year PhD student in Geography, who has received a research grant through Africana Studies at UConn.  This grant is part of the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research on Women and Girls of Color through Africana Studies at UConn. Weixuan’s proposed project, titled “Exploring Implicit Bias on African American Women’s […]

A recent UConn Today article discussing the University’s initiatives to tackle climate change through research, policy advocacy, and more.  Featured in the first segment of the video is Anji Seth discussing the importance of UConn sending a group of undergraduates to the COP26 climate summit held in Glasgow this past fall. Check out the article […]

BOT Distinguished Professor emeritus Mark Boyer recently published an opinion piece in the Hartford Courant. The Op-Ed can be found here:  https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-nato-works-that-may-surprise-you-20220214-ntmgsngmxraydhtaz3ml7oh3qu-story.html    

Six Geography Graduate student are presenting at the upcoming AAG conference.  Click talk name for abstract.   Shamayeta Batttacharya Analyzing access to healthcare among gender diverse communities using a critical accessibility framework Feb 25 / 9:40am – 11:00am Dan Kraemer Early-stage real estate dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic: A geospatial analysis of the New York […]

Adam Gallaher recently contributed an op-ed commentary piece to the Energy News Network.   Adam writes about how a poor natural gas infrastructure and a refusal to build it out anymore leads to a reliance on liquefied natural gas imports which are more expensive.  This coupled with a push back on hydro power from Canada is […]

Two UConn Geographer’s research was recently featured in UConn Today.  Check out the work by Prof. Carol Atkinson-Palombo and Mary Buchanan (PhD, 2021) concerning elected officials’ fear of paying a political price for supporting clean energy projects.   https://today.uconn.edu/2022/02/study-more-wind-energy-infrastructure-more-votes-for-incumbents