Babs

Babs Buttenfield received the National Research Award by the UCGIS

Aug. 21, 2024

Babs Buttenfield received the national research award by the UCGIS (University Consortium for Geographic Information Science), for significant contributions to geospatial data generalization and modeling, multi-scale mapping and geodatabase design, most notably through her continuing Research Faculty affiliation with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information...

City of Imola by Da Vinci, 1502

Stefan Leyk awarded NSF grant for the Imola project

July 23, 2024

Professor Stefan Leyk received a $499,999 grant for the Imola project from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the titled project, "Collaborat ive Research: HNDS-I: Building Long-term, National-scale Spatiotemporal Data Collections from Historical Map Archives" . Collaborators on the project include Associate Professor Yao-Yi Chiang from the University of Minnesota...

Isaac

Isaac Rivera receives the AAG Digital Geographies Outstanding Dissertation Award

May 17, 2024

Incoming Geography faculty member, Isaac Rivera has received the Outstanding Dissertation award from the Digital Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. His dissertation is entitled: "Mapping the Terms of Freedom & the Ongoing Refusal of Settler Imaginaries". Abstract: Originating in Denver, Colorado in 1907 and exported as...

Millie Spencer in Chile

Millie Spencer awarded Fulbright Fellowship 2024-2025

May 7, 2024

Millie Spencer has been awarded the 2024-2025 Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship . She is currently doing field work in Concepción, Chile, analyzing glacier retreat and its impacts on downstream communities in south-central Chile. The Chile Fulbright Science Initiative will enable her to expand her existing research in Chile further south to...

Jessica Finlay

Jessica Finlay Receives Emerging Scholar Award in Health and Medical Geography

May 1, 2024

During the 2024 Association of American Geographers (AAG) meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, Dr. Jessica Finlay was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award in Health and Medical Geography. This is a highly competitive award. According to the AAG website , this award "seeks to recognize early career scholars who show significant potential...

Emily Yeh

Emily Yeh Named College Professor of Distinction

April 1, 2024

Emily Yeh has been named Professor of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences in recognition of her exceptional service, teaching and research. This revered title is reserved for scholars and artists of national and international acclaim who college peers also recognize as exceptionally talented teachers and colleagues. Honorees...

Phurwa Gurung

Phurwa Gurung Awarded National Geographic Society Grant

Oct. 17, 2023

Doctoral candidate Phurwa Gurung was awarded a National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration grant to work together with local Dolpopa scholars to document endangered oral literature in Dolpo, northwest Nepal. National Geographic funds a global community of Explorers who investigate, test hypotheses, innovate, stretch their creativity, and push...

Phurwa Gurung

Phurwa Gurung Awarded Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Oct. 11, 2023

Phurwa Gurung was awarded a Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for his dissertation project, “Reordering highland territories: State-building, indigeneity and multispecies worldmaking in the Himalaya.” It will support his ongoing field research in Dolpo, Nepal, which uses caterpillar fungus (yartsa gunbu) as a lens onto state building processes, indigenous...

Christopher Picard

Christopher Picard wins geospatial intelligence scholarship

Sept. 15, 2023

Christopher Picard of CU Boulder is one of 21 students nationwide to win support from United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Christopher Picard, a graduate student in geography at the University of Colorado Boulder, is one of 21 students nationwide to win scholarships this year from the United States Geospatial Intelligence...

Rupak Shrestha

Rupak Shrestha's dissertation shortlisted for ICAS prize

Sept. 15, 2023

Rupak Shrestha's dissertation, The Border Came Between Us: Securing Development, Surveillance and Securitization, and Refugee Memory and Placemaking in Nepal , has been shortlisted for an ICAS prize. The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is a global space in which Asia scholars and social and cultural actors from all...

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