Ailing Jin, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at the University of Connecticut, won first place in the Lightning Talk Competition at the UCGIS 2023 Symposium. The event, which took place from June 6 to June 9, was held at Yale University this year. The UCGIS is recognized as one of the largest […]
Wind Project awarded Provost Research Excellence Award
Congratulations to Nat Trumbull (Geography), Carol Atkinson-Palombo (Geography), Syma Ebben (Agricultural and Resource Economics), Oksan Bayulgen (Political Science), and Lyle Scruggs (Political Science) on being awarded a Provost Research Excellence Award for their project titled: Offshore wind blows ashore: Investigating the social impacts and perceptions of offshore wind projects in New England. This work is […]
Dr. Ghosh Receives Grant to Study Cancer Disparities Among U.S. African Americans
Dr. Debs Ghosh, associate professor in the Department of Geography in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) and principal investigator at UConn’s Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP), received a grant through the American Cancer Society to study multi-level drivers of cancer disparities impacting African Americans. This study will build […]
Lauren Perez Bonilla receives Wood/Raith Gender Identity Living Trust Fellowship
Congratulations to Lauren Perez Bonilla on receiving a Wood/Raith Gender Identity Living Trust Summer Fellowship. The Wood/Raith Living Trust is named for Audrey Wood (UCONN class of ‘47) and Edeltraut Raith. Both Wood and Raith earned their Masters in Library Science from the University of Southern California and spent their careers as librarians with […]
Dr. Anji Seth on Women and the Climate Crisis panel
Anji Seth will be one of the four participants on the GENERATIONS: A Conversations Between Women and the Climate Crisis panel. In this event, four generations of women will discuss how the climate crisis affects us all. The panel will explore how each generational viewpoint informs our overall understanding of this important issue and how […]
GIS Undergrad featured in UConn Today story
Congratulations to Audrey Berry and all the GIS Diversity grant awardees. The program, funded by a CLAS diversity initiative, was highlighted in a recent issue of UConn Today. Read the story here: https://today.uconn.edu/2023/04/research-ready-preparing-students-for-life-after-uconn
Adam Gallaher successfully defends his dissertation
Congratulations to Adam Gallaher for successfully defending his dissertation, which is titled: Sustainable Energy Transitions: Exploring Low Carbon Solutions for Transportation and Electricity Production.
UConn Geographers head to Denver for annual AAG conference
A group of geographers from UConn participated in the American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2023 Annual Meeting held in Denver, CO from March 23-27. During the conference, the AAG honored geographers who received awards over the last several years. UConn Geographers receiving awards include: Sabina Bhandari (current PhD student) received Travel Awards from the Spatial […]
Quinn Molloy receives Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
It is with great pleasure that we announce that Quinn Molloy received an University Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. This honor is bestowed on a very small number of graduate students and Quinn is joining a selective club of distinguished educators recognized and respected for teaching excellence. […]
Dr. Atkinson-Palombo to moderate Virtual Green Days Panel
Virtual Green Days Panel, University of Iceland, Wednesday, March 1st, 12:30-1:30. https://meet.google.com/pwp-jmdb-psr This panel will showcase work being done in US cities by three graduates of UConn’s Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the intellectual frontier of Sustainable Transportation. Featured speakers are Anaka Maher, Solutions Engineer at Optibus; Steven Luglio, Transportation Engineer at Sam […]