Babs Buttenfield

Congratulations Graduates!

The 2023 Fall Newsletter has been published and is available for viewing! If you would like to contribute to the next newsletter, please contact the department . If you are an alum, please fill out the Alumni Update form . The newsletter contains department news, alumni updates, and articles by...

This fall, we welcomed Jessica Finlay to the Department. Dr. Finlay, featured in this newsletter, is an Assistant Professor examining health geographies, neighborhoods, aging, and well-being. We also welcomed Sean Dunn as the Department’s new program administrator. Sean has quickly become an integral and valuable member of the Geography Department...

The fragmented water supply in Shimla, India. Photo Credit: Naomi Hazarika Assistant Professor Yaffa Truelove and Professor Jennifer Fluri have been awarded a Government of India SPARC grant in collaboration with Dr. Anu Sabhlok and Dr. Ritajyoti Bandopadhyay at the Indian Institute of Science, Education, and Research (IISER) Mohali. This...

On August 2, 2023, CIRES Director and Geography professor, Waleed Abdalati , hosted a discussion at the International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) with Dr. Susan Margules, Head of the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Directorate. The session was entitled “Advancing Space-Based Scientific Knowledge Through Fundamental Research,” and it...

Sarah Schlosser's OER Grant for GEOG 3053 GIS: Mapping at CU Boulder The University of Colorado System is embarking on a multi-campus Open educational resources (OER) initiative. Open CU 's goal is to have a positive impact on thousands of students in financial savings and will increase the quality of...

By Keith Musselman The Arctic and rivers located in the Arctic and subarctic are warming due to climate change. To understand the impacts this warming will have on people, partnering with impacted Indigenous communities in the region is important. It is also important that these partnerships are ethical and equitable...

New Assistant Professor, Dr. Jessica Finlay was part of an "Aging in Place with Dementia" workshop hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She presented her Cognability research to investigate how neighborhood built and social environments impact brain-healthy activities and risk for Alzheimer's disease in later life...

Jessica is a health geographer who uses mixed methods to investigate how built, social, and natural environments impact health and wellbeing across the life course. She has developed a new concept, Cognability, to capture how neighborhoods may support brain health through opportunities to exercise, socialize, and think/learn in later life...

Last August I started a PhD residency at X, the moonshot factory . X is a research and development branch of Google (or more precisely Alphabet). X is a diverse group of inventors and entrepreneurs who build and launch technologies that aim to improve the lives of millions, even billions,...