Ph.D. student Sachin Dubey and their research at the Providence Preservation Society was featured in the Providence Post. This summer, Sachin researched privately-owned public spaces in the City of Providence, Rhode Island.
Check out the full interview titled “What are privately owned public spaces? 5-ish questions with B.L. Jordan and Sachin Dubey.”
Congratulations to Weixuan Lyu for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled: Redefining Food Spaces: Environments, Perceptions, and Lived Experiences.
Congratulations to Sabina Bhandari for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled: Housing as a Structural Determinant of Health: Unpacking the Black Box between Historical Housing Policy and Present-Day Health through Long-Term Neighborhood Segregation and Disinvestment in Connecticut.
Congratulations to Yan Chen for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled: Climatic Drivers of Gross Primary Productivity Variability: Insights from Observations and Earth System Models.
Congcong Miao (PhD ’26) and her research featured on the UConn Today website.
Check out the full article, titled UConn Ph.D. Uses High-Tech Tools to Help Urban Planners Make Cities Safer.
today.uconn.edu/2026/04/meet-the-graduate-congcong-miao-ph-d
Congratulations to Congcong Miao for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled: Towards Explainable GeoAI: Modeling Spatial Patterns, Perceptions, and Dependencies in Urban Systems.
| Congratulations go out to Ludwig Chen, Youshuang Hu, and Ailing Jin who each received a 2026 AAG International Geographic Funds Award.
The IGIF funds are designed to support university student career development in the academic areas of applied spatial analysis or geographic information science or systems (SA/GISS).
Awardees will be celebrated during the upcoming AAG Annual Meeting in San Francisco as a part of the AAG Awards Ceremony, which they are encouraged to attend.
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Congratulations to Daniel Kraemer for successfully defending his dissertation, which is titled: Context is Everything: Advancing Earthquake Social Vulnerability Models Through Identifying Local and Hazard-Specific Drivers
Congratulations to Sydney Clements for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled: Distributing Equity: An Analysis of Existing Food Hub Distribution Models in Connecticut.
Sydney Clements ’16 (CLAS), a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies, was named a Fellow of the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation for applied science, academic research, policy, and environmental activism.
Clements’ research is focused on the intersection of food access, farmer viability, and environmental sustainability. She is currently studying best practices for network food hubs to build a more sustainable and fair local food system in Connecticut.
The Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation is a national network that identifies and nurtures environmental leaders to create positive environmental change. This year, Clements is one of 24 Switzer Fellows to join the network of over 750 environmental leaders across the United States.
