Congratulations to Fabian Terbeck (2020 Ph.D.) for being one of 3 finalists for the AAG’s J. Warren Nystrom Award (http://www.aag.org/nystrom) for his paper “The Suburbanization of Poverty and Minorities: Two Parallel or Interrelated Processes? (abstract below).  This is the top national award in American geography for dissertation research across all subfields of the discipline. The […]

Two UConn Geography graduates were recently recognized at the recent (virtual) GIS Day events.  Congratulations to Adam Gallaher and Ji Won Suh for being selected by the GIS Day committee and attendees as having outstanding posters.  Their topics were: Adam Gallaher:  “Cases of COVID-19 Reported in Connecticut by Town- ArcGIS Dashboard” Ji Won Suh:  “Connecticut […]

Professor Mark Boyer was recently on a USC podcast discussing the key foreign policy issues on the ballot for the 2020 U.S. presidential elections. You can listen to the podcast here:  http://www.armoudian.com/scholars-circle-journalist-and-media-role-in-us-elections-us-foreign-policy-at-stake-in-2020-presidential-election-october-25-2020  

Congratulations to Shamayeta Bhattacharya who recently received the student research presentation award at 2020 Race, Place Ethnicity conference for her paper titled ““What Happened Afterwards?” Transgender Community’s Successes and Challenges in Substantively Accessing their Human Rights in India”.

Professor Mark Boyer has  an Op-Ed piece in the Hartford Courant titled:  With everything else going wrong, the climate crisis is being downplayed. But it’s the most important thing. Read Professor Boyer’s Op=Ed here:  https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-boyer-climate-voting-0927-20200927-stjj5mqzyfbprnliq5vahgainq-story.html

Professor Anji Seth was recently interviewed for an article appearing on the InsideClimateNews site. The article, titled Fading Winters, Hotter Summers Make the Northeast America’s Fastest Warming Region, can be read here:  https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26062020/hotter-summers-northeast-united-states-warming.

Congratulations to Fabian Terbeck for successfully defending his dissertation. His dissertation title is:  Rising Poverty and Diversity in Suburbs: A Decomposition Analysis of Poverty Trends in the Chicago-Joliet-Naperville Metropolitan Area in the 2000s.

Congratulations to Antonio Barocci for successfully defending his dissertation. His dissertation title is:  A Geography of Repression. The Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the First Years of the Fascist Special Tribunal 1926-1928.

Congratulations to Awanti Acharya for successfully defending her dissertation. Her topic was:  A Spatial Hedonic Regression and Difference-in-Differences Based Study on the Impact of Curb Appeal, Cell Tower, and Flipping on House Prices.  

Professor Anji Seth and the UConn Atmospheric Sciences Group (ASG) Climate Assessment for Connecticut is featured  with video in UConn Today. Check out the story and video here:  https://today.uconn.edu/2020/04/whats-ahead-connecticuts-climate