PhD student Adam Gallaher recently received a lot of media attention in regards to a tree-trimming study he was the lead author on (see the two links below).  Great work Adam. today.uconn.edu/2021/12/study-tree-trimming-pays-dividends-for-eversource-customers   www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/routine-tree-trimming-does-help-reduce-power-outages-study  

Congratulations to Diane Benbella for successfully defending her dissertation. Her dissertation title is:  A Geospatial Analysis of Uganda’s Progress and Challenges Towards the Target of “90-90-90” for Ending the HIV Epidemic

Shamayeta Bhattacharya was recently involved in the Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research on Women and Girls of Color panel discussing her research.  You can read more about the panel here:  https://today.uconn.edu/2021/11/scholars-highlight-gaps-in-research-about-women-and-girls-of-color-in-stem-and-public-health-fields.     And a big congratulations go out to both Shamayeta and Aaron Adams who each recently published a paper in The Geographical […]

Congratulations to Professor Atkinson-Palombo for receiving the Outstanding Service Award from the UConn Provost. You can read the full story on the UConn Today site:  today.uconn.edu/2021/10/provosts-outstanding-service-award-2021  

Associate Professor Debs Ghosh will be giving two webinars during the Fall 2021 semester.  Please see links below for more info regarding specifics of each talk. October 7th , Department of Geography, Clark University.  “Towards Social Topology: Connecting people, places, things, and policies in GIS”. https://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/event/fall-2021-colloquium-speaker-series-debarchana-ghosh October 28th , UConn Center for mHealth and Social […]

Associate Professor-in-Residence Andy Jolly-Ballantine thinks everyone should check out the recent UConn Today article about the Sustainable Community Food Systems Minor. Sustainability, Community, and Food – Theory Meets Action for UConn Undergrads

Congratulations to Dr. Mary Buchanan on the release of her co-edited volume with Dr. Phoebe Godfrey, Global Im-Possibilities: Exploring the Paradoxes of Just Sustainabilities, published by Bloomsbury. The book features case studies from around the globe and explores the tensions and contradictions in a variety of attempts to enact just sustainabilities in policy, planning, and […]

Congratulations to Bo Zhang for successfully defending his dissertation. His dissertation title is:  Predictive Mapping of Spatial Categorical Variables by Markov Chain Random Fields.

Congratulations to Ashley Benitez Ou as she has been awarded this year’s  Getulio P. Carvalho Pre-doctoral Fellowship for U.S.- Brazilian Relations. This is an award made by UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for academic excellence and will help support Ashley’s dissertation research in Brazil.

Congratulations to Adam Gallaher for placing second in the UCGIS Student Paper competition.  Adam’s presentation is titled Estimating Second-Generation Biofuel Feedstock Production on Marginal Lands in Connecticut. You can see Adam’s presentation here:  https://s.uconn.edu/gallaher-ucgis2021