Congratulations to Congcong Miao for earning an AAG Travel Award from the Applied Geography Specialty Group of the AAG. Congcong’s award winning paper is titled:  Assessing network-based traffic crash risk using prospective space-time scan statistic method.

Debs Ghosh is invited as a speaker for the Great Decision Lecture Series by the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan.  Her talk is on Tuesday, May 19th. More information (including info on registering for online access to the talk) can be found here:  worldmichigan.org/event/global-health

As part of the UConn Foundation’s Impact Series, Professor Anji Seth was among four researchers who discussed their research on climate change in Connecticut — and what the state can do about its impacts. You can read the full article from UConn Today here:  https://today.uconn.edu/2024/03/uconn-experts-discuss-climate-changes-impact-on-connecticut.

Congratulations to Congcong Miao, a PhD student in Geography, who has won the 2024 GIS-T Symposium Student Paper Contest hosted by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).  She is invited to present her paper on the spatiotemporal modeling of traffic crashes at the symposium from April 2-5, 2024, in Atlanta, GA.

In October 2023, Elsevier published an update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”. Congratulations to both Dr. Peter Chen and Dr. Chris Burton who are both named in the world’s top 2% of Scientists List. More information about this metric can be found here:  https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6  

Professor Peter Chen has led a project utilizing nationwide human mobility data to study retail food environments in the U.S. The study employs large-scale GPS tracking data covering over 94 million food store visits to understand how food activities can influence dietary health outcomes. The research has been published in Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42667-8).   Find the […]

Prof. Debs Ghosh received a New 5-Year NIH Grant to study the impact of Structural Racism on Health Disparity. She is also hiring PhD students (Spring 2024 and Fall 2024) and undergraduate students (asap)! Find out more about the study HERE and about the student positions HERE.  

https://today.uconn.edu/2023/08/creating-a-more-just-and-equitable-future-together

Congratulations to Junya Wu for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled:  Using Excess Heat Factor (EHF) to deepen understanding of heatwaves in the U.S.

Congratulations to Moataz Kilany for successfully defending his dissertation, which is titled:  Land Use / Land Cover Classification Optimization Using Swarm Algorithms.