Dr. Atkinson-Palombo has received funding from UConn’s Scholarship Facilitation Fund to travel to Arizona in spring 2019 during her sabbatical leave to undertake research into the public’s perceptions of Autonomous Vehicles.  Her study will focus on Waymo, a subsidiary of Google, which has been testing self-driving vehicles in Chandler, Arizona, since April 2017.  During this […]

Congratulation to Ruiting Zhai for the publication of her article in Landscape Ecology, which is titled as “The transiogram as a graphic metric for characterizing the spatial patterns of landscapes“.  Landscape Ecology is the flagship journal in ecological understanding of spatial heterogeneity.  Ruiting’s progress is important, similar to the significant progress made by Weixing Zhang in detecting horizontal […]

Professor Cooke was recently quoted in a Hartford Courant Op-Ed piece. https://www.courant.com/opinion/editorials/hc-ed-migration-census-2017-story.html

Diane BenBella received the 2nd place award for the Student Paper Competition at the 2018 Applied Geography Conference in Kent, Ohio! Her paper was titled ‘Access to HIV Care and Addiction Treatment among Stigmatized Population of Opioid-Dependent People Living with HIV’. Congratulations Diane

Assistant Professor Debanuj DasGupta was selected to be a member of the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum. This comes with a scholarship from the German Federal Foreign Office in order to present his research and help form a transgender policy Taskforce for the South Asian region. More information on the Salzburg Global LGBT Forum can be […]

Professor Anji Seth was quoted in a recent article appearing in The Nation titled The Climate Won’t Stop Changing In 2100. Here is a link to the digital version of the:  https://www.thenation.com/article/the-climate-wont-stop-changing-in-2100    

The CLAS New Heads Series are talks with incoming heads and directors of departments, centers, and institutes in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  This fall Professor Cindy Zhang was interviewed as she began her tenure as head of the Department of Geography in August 2018. Here is a link to the interview:  https://clas.uconn.edu/2018/09/26/clas-new-heads-series-cindy-zhang

Professor Scott Stephenson was recently interviewed about his research regarding global climate change and the effects on shipping routes in the Arctic. The UConn Today post can be found here:  https://today.uconn.edu/2018/09/ships-clouds-mean-cooling-arctic

Professor Debs Ghosh is an invited speakers at the  2018 New York State Geospatial Summit (https://nysgis.net/geosummit2018) , to be held on September 26, 2018, at the Welch Allyn Lodge in Skaneateles, New York. Her talk is titled: “Connecting People, Things, and Places in GIS”.  Dr. Ghosh will share thoughts, lessons learned, and examples from her […]

Prof. Debanuj DasGupta wins Social Science Research Council Fellowship in TransRegional Studies-Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections.   Link: https://www.ssrc.org/fellows