Megan McCusker Hill and Kate Johnson are on the organizing committee this year for the AAG Symposium on Physical Geography titled “Challenges of the ‘Anthropocene’”. It’s one of 3 featured themes for the upcoming AAG meeting in San Francisco. See information below if you are interested in submitting a poster abstract for the symposium. […]
#UConnCOP21: Paris or bust!
UConn will send* a select group of students (and faculty) to Paris this December for what is shaping up to be a historic event for people and the planet. The UN Climate Negotiations (under the UNFCCC) to be held in Paris, France is the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21). COP21 will […]
Professor Cooke to give NILS Research Forum Seminar
Dr. Thomas Cooke has been invited to give a seminar to the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study Research Unit on September 10, 2015. The title of his talk will be “Migration and Union Dissolution“. More information can be found at the following link: http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/NILSResearchSupportUnit/News/#d.en.522236
Dr. Atkinson-Palombo to lead panel on wind turbine impacts on property values
Dr. Carol Atkinson-Palombo will lead a panel on Wind Turbines and their Impact on Residential Property Values by the Massachusetts Board of Real Estate Assessors in Boston on Aug 21. Here is the link to the event: http://www.mbrea.org/calendar_day.asp?date=8/21/2015&event=173
Two Geography graduate students earn fellowships
Congratulations to Menyao Zhang and Joe Danko for receiving the following awards. Mengyao received the Dean Ross MacKinnon Fellowship award from the UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Joe received two awards: First, he earned the Dean’s Graduate Fellowship in the Social Sciences, awarded from the UConn College of Liberal […]
Geography undergrad Colby McCabe featured among CLAS Graduating Senior stories
Colby was recently featured among 11 other seniors of the CLAS Class of 2015. clas.uconn.edu/class-of-2015/#mccabe
Three UConn Geography graduate students earn AAG awards.
The Geography Department would like to congratulate Shaolu Yu, Mengyao Zhang, and Megan McCusker Hill for receiving student awards at the 2015 AAG conference. Shaolu earned several awards: Economic Geography Specialty Group – Best student paper award (paper titled: “I’m like a deaf, dumb and blind person: the immobility of Chinese in Flushing New […]
Professor Foote to give keynote address at Oklahoma City bombing symposium.
Professor Ken Foote will give a keynote address in April at the University of Oklahoma for “Terror, Trauma, Memory: Symposium Dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing.” Read more…
Professor Trumbull to give talk at U.S.-Russia Forum
Dr. Nat Trumbull will be giving a talk at the 35th Annual US-Russia Forum in Washington DC on March 25. His talk is about the educational project “Best Practices of Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants in the U.S. and Russia”. See http://www.russiahouse.org/wrf.php for more information.
Geography MA student earns Fulbright U.S. Student research grant.
Congratulations to Geography MA student Timothy Ravis, who has been selected for a 2015-16 Fulbright U.S. Student research grant for his project Local Action, Global Policy: Metropolitan Planning in Decentralized Indonesia.
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