Department News

Ian received the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for academic year 2010-2011.

Tim Oakes was quoted in today's Washington Post in an article about China's western development campaign. See more at The Washington Post >

Emily is quoted in the New York Times regarding her research on government subsidized new home development in Tibet. See more at The New York Times >

Teresa Chapman has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award for 2010-2011 from the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program of the National Science Foundation. Teresa is conducting research on mountain pine beetle and fire influences on the regeneration of lodgepole pine in northern Colorado.

Andres Holz and Juan Paritsis, both of whom received CU Geography Ph.D.s in 2009, have received prestigious Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowships of $25,000 each for 2010-11. The aim of the Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowship program is to identify individuals who will contribute to the educational mission of the campus, and to support...

The CU-Boulder Outreach Committee has awarded Professor Mark Williams $5,000 for an outreach project focusing on Colorado's water resources. Professor Williams, along with Mountain Studies Institute Executive Director Dr. Koren Nydick and Geography graduate student Adrianne Kroepsch, propose to connect research on water resources currently being conducted in southwest Colorado...

Cole Akeson Receives American Councils Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Fellowship, Ukraine, ($7,900)

Connor Sheehan is the recipient of a pilot project grant from the Institute of Behavioral Science to study the relationship between migration and informality in Latin America. $8100.

John Knowles Receives Gary Gaile Memorial Research Fellowship from the Department of Geography.

The Colwell Fellowship will support his research to develop new algorithms for radiometric normalization of night-time imagery from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). No record was made of on-board DMSP calibration adjustments over many years. This means that to detect changes over time, it is necessary to radiometrically normalize...