The Blue Heritage Trail, a collaborative initiative developed by UConn Maritime Studies and Geography faculty and students with guidance and support from the Blue Heritage Trail Advisory Committee, has launched with the installation of eight informational signs at key sites in southeastern Connecticut. You can read more about the project here:  https://seagrant.uconn.edu/2022/06/13/ct-blue-heritage-trail-launched-with-installation-of-8-signs

Congratulations to Zhijie “JJ” Zhang for successfully defending his dissertation. His dissertation title is:  Efficient Recognition of Potential Landslides using Open Access Multi-Source Remotely Sensed Images with Deep Learning Approaches

Congratulations to Shamayeta Bhattacharya for successfully defending her dissertation. Her dissertation title is:  SHAKTHI: Studying Healthcare Accessibility among Kothi, Transgender and Hijra Individuals

Congratulations to the COVID mapping team lead by Dr. Debs Ghosh as they have been awarded the 2022 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Community Engaged Scholarship (Student Team category) for their work on the Covid-19 Mapping project. This award is given by the UConn Office of the Provost in recognition of the exemplary work in […]

Congratulations to Dr. Andy Jolly-Ballantine for his recent promotion to Professor-in-Residence The evaluation process for promotion apply the highest standards of professional achievement in scholarship, teaching, and service.  All applications for promotion are reviewed at the department level, school or college level, and finally at the Office of the Provost before recommendations are forwarded to […]

Professor Debs Ghosh will be giving the Saturday Keynote Address at UConn’s 5th Annual Global Health Symposium.  The title of her talk is Health Geography = f (people, place, and health). Registration is still open for the event:  https://glohsoc.uconn.edu/register22.

Aidan Caron, a GIScience major at UConn, has earned a 2022 Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Award.  His project is titled “Improving Access to Connecticut Summer Meal Programs with Geographic Information Systems”.  Aiden plans on developing an interactive web GIS platform to improve the participation of the Connecticut Summer Meal Programs which will help stakeholders […]

Congratulations to Dr. Andy Jolly-Ballantine for receiving the AAG 2022 Harm J. de Blij Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching This annual award recognizes outstanding achievement in teaching undergraduate Geography including the use of innovative teaching methods. The recipients are instructors for whom undergraduate teaching is a primary responsibility.  This award is generously funded by […]

Congratulations to Adam Gallaher for receiving an AAG Energy and Environment Specialty Group Dissertation Data & Field Work Award for his work on estimating replacement dynamics between electric vehicles and internal combustion engine vehicles in Connecticut from 2013 – 2021.  Great job Adam.

Congratulations to Weixuan Lyu, a second-year PhD student in Geography, who has received a research grant through Africana Studies at UConn.  This grant is part of the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research on Women and Girls of Color through Africana Studies at UConn. Weixuan’s proposed project, titled “Exploring Implicit Bias on African American Women’s […]