May 22, 2013 - Tim Oakes was awarded a $230,272 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project "“Re-ordering public space, governing urban citizens:...
April 24, 2013 - A person searching through the massive expanse of data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau in search of details about a specific neighborhood may...
April 23, 2013 - Mark Williams does a radio interview for the National Science Foundation's Science360 Radio. The radio spot was part of the NSF Earth Day series....
April 16, 2013 - Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program featured in National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery article. [Read NSF...
March 01, 2013 - John O'Loughlin and his research team conduct an unprecedented study to determine if climate change plays a role in the continent's conflicts.
February 28, 2013 - Cameron has received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award from the National Science Foundation. This grant will support Cameron's...
February 18, 2013 - The National Academies Press recently released a report about the future geospatial workforce, commissioned by the National Geospatial-Intelligence...
December 07, 2012 - Gaping crevasses that penetrate upward from the bottom of the largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula make it more susceptible to...
November 05, 2012 - Results of a new study show that episodes of reduced precipitation in the Southern Rocky Mountains, especially during the 2001-2002 drought, greatly...
October 22, 2012 - While a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder shows the risk of human conflict in East Africa increases somewhat with hotter...
October 12, 2012 - Whizzing along the I-70 corridor into the Rocky Mountains, it’s hard not to notice widespread patches of dry, dead, red trees dispersed throughout...
October 03, 2012 - The National Science Foundation has awarded a $12 million grant to a CU-Boulder-led team to explore ways to maximize the benefits of natural gas...
October 02, 2012 - Where does our water come from and how does climate change affect its future availability? In the arid West, mountain snowpack holds the answers to...
September 10, 2012 - A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study that ties forest “greenness” in the western United States to fluctuating year-to-year snowpack...
August 29, 2012 - Adam Williams has won a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant from the National Science Foundation for $16,000. Adam's research project -...
August 09, 2012 - Ken Foote talks about his research with CU Connections. In Western civilization, memorials honoring soldiers and heroes have been traced to Roman...
July 07, 2012 - As a series of devastating wildfires consumed tens of thousands of acres of Colorado forest land over the last month, the media, the public and even...
October 24, 2011 - The National Science Foundation and the US Census Bureau have awarded Seth Spielman a five-year, $1.2 million grant to establish an NSF-Census...
August 22, 2011 - A study by Andrés Holz and Tom Veblen indicates a major climate oscillation in the Southern Hemisphere that is expected to intensify in the coming...
June 16, 2011 - The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Colorado Boulder a six-year, $5.9 million grant to continue intensive studies of...
April 30, 2011 - Erich Mueller and Andrew Linke have been selected as this year's recipients of the Department's Gilbert White Fellowship. The fellowship provides...
April 08, 2011 - Sarah is the recipient of a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant. National Geographic provides these grants to help cover "field project costs...
April 08, 2011 - Austin Cowley, Ian Rowen, and Amelia Schubert have been selected as this years recipients of the department's Adam Kolff Memorial Research...
April 07, 2011 - Mason Auger, Abby Hickcox, and Adam Williams have been selected as the recipients of the Geography Department's new Environment-Society Fellowship....
April 04, 2011 - Preston received this award through the Graduate School's John Marr Ecology Fund. Its purpose is to provide grants of $300 to $1000 for Ph.D....
April 04, 2011 - Sarah received this award through the Graduate School's John Marr Ecology Fund. Its purpose is to provide grants of $300 to $1000 for Ph.D....
March 25, 2011 - Lindsay is the recipient of an Eaton Graduate Student Travel Grant from the Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA). This will support travel to...
March 25, 2011 - Lindsay has won a grant from the University of Wisconsin, Madison's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program...
March 17, 2011 - Ian Rowen has won a grant from the University of Wisconsin, Madison's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program...
March 03, 2011 - Morgan is the recipient of a Young Investigator's Award to participate in the BASIN 2011 conference on the Roles of Stable Isotopes in Water Cycle...
February 17, 2011 - Michelle will receive a non-stipendiary fellowship in the Harvard Kennedy School's [Program on Science, Technology and...
January 20, 2011 - Environmental Variability, Migration, and Rural Livelihoods Funded by NIH, National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, $147,000 Lori...
January 03, 2011 - Cameron will return to Patagonia to complete his research on the physiological mechanisms of dieback in forests of *Austrocedrus chilensis* and...
January 03, 2011 - Cameron Naficy Receives the University of Montana International Fund Award ($700). Cameron will return to Patagonia to complete his research on the...
December 13, 2010 - NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden has selected Waleed Abdalati to serve as the agency's chief scientist effective Jan. 3 for a two-year...
December 01, 2010 - Cameron Naficy Receives the Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research ($700). Cameron will return to Patagonia to complete his research on the...
December 01, 2010 - Mark Williams received funding for the Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research Program 2011-2016: Tipping points in high-elevation ecosystems in...
November 11, 2010 - The CU-Boulder Outreach has awarded Professor Tom Veblen $5000 for an outreach project focusing on historical perspectives and ecological impacts of...
September 28, 2010 - The Geography Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder has been ranked 2nd in the country in the latest release of doctoral program...
September 01, 2010 - Researchers from the University of Colorado will partner with colleagues at other schools to study fire and climate change in forests in the United...
August 31, 2010 - Many consider ground zero a sacred place -- as well as the battlefield at Gettysburg, the Lincoln Memorial and the site of the Oklahoma City bombing,...
August 18, 2010 - For Professor Ken Foote, America’s hallowed grounds fall into three general categories: those made sacred through the death of a martyr, like the...
August 16, 2010 - Ian received the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for academic year 2010-2011.
July 24, 2010 - Emily is quoted in the New York Times regarding her research on government subsidized new home development in Tibet.
June 29, 2010 - Tim Oakes was quoted in today's *Washington Post* in an article about China's western development campaign.
June 21, 2010 - Teresa Chapman has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award for 2010-2011 from the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program of the...
June 21, 2010 - Andres Holz and Juan Paritsis, both of whom received CU Geography Ph.D.s in 2009, have received prestigious Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowships...
June 08, 2010 - The CU-Boulder Outreach Committee has awarded Professor Mark Williams $5,000 for an outreach project focusing on Colorado's water resources....
June 01, 2010 - Connor Sheehan is the recipient of a pilot project grant from the Institute of Behavioral Science to study the relationship between migration and...
May 01, 2010 - Professor Tom Veblen is PI and recent CU graduates Andres Holz and Juan Paritsis are Postdoctoral Research Associates on a new NSF award entitled...
May 01, 2010 - Meredith Gartner has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award for 2010-2011 from the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program of the...
April 28, 2010 - Travis Klingberg has been awarded a US Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship for 2010-2011....
April 28, 2010 - Jenn Dinaburg has been awarded a US Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship for...
April 27, 2010 - Emily Yeh's NSF CAREER project on environmentalism in China and Tibet is featured as a "research story" on CU's ARRA (American Recovery and...
April 15, 2010 - Ted Holland won the Russian, Central Eurasian and East European Specialty Group's Dissertation Enhancement Award at the annual AAG meetings in...
April 15, 2010 - Natalie Koch and Grant Garstka swept the Russian, Central Eurasian and East European Specialty Group's Best Student Paper Award at the annual AAG...
April 14, 2010 - Professor John O'Loughlin has spent years studying the aftermath of two war-torn regions: Bosnia and the North Caucasus. He finds geographically...
April 13, 2010 - Elisabeth Root has been awarded an Innovative Seed Grant for her project "Children on the move? Childhood residential mobility and the effects of...
April 12, 2010 - Waleed Abdalati was selected for funding under NASA’s Interdisciplinary Science solicitatation. Dr. Abdalati and colleagues from NASA Goddard...
April 02, 2010 - Adam Williams has been awarded Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships from the Center for Asian Studies for Summer 2010 and for the 2010-11...
April 02, 2010 - Amelia Schubert has been awarded a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship from the Center for Asian Studies for Summer 2010. She'll be studying...
April 01, 2010 - Julia Hicks Receives Adam Kolff Memorial Fellowship, CU Geography
April 01, 2010 - Jeremy Smith has been awarded a 2010-2011 Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the University of Colorado. Jeremy's research...
April 01, 2010 - Grad student Jennifer Petrzelka was one of two winners of the 2010 student prize for best presentation at the Hydrologic Sciences Symposium hosted by...
April 01, 2010 - Grad student Rory Cowie won the Best Student Presentation award ($300) at the National Groundwater Association Annual Groundwater Summit, Denver CO,...
April 01, 2010 - Tim Oakes has been awarded a "Seasonal Bird" research exchange fellowship for 180,000 yuan from the Guizhou Province Ministry of Education. Tim will...
March 09, 2010 - Geography student Shane Grigsby has won a $20,000 grant from the CU Environmental Center for his project on "Topographic Mapping of the CU Campus for...
March 01, 2010 - Julia Hicks Receives Hazel Schmoll Research Fellowship, CU Herbarium. The graduate student fellowships are awarded for the study of native Colorado...
February 23, 2010 - Emily Yeh won the 2009 Leopold-Hidy Prize from the journal *Environmental History* for best journal article of the year. Emily's winning paper,...
February 23, 2010 - Elizabeth Dunn, CU-Boulder associate professor of geography and international affairs, put her Fulbright grant to a surprising, study-altering use....
February 15, 2010 - Professor Babs Buttenfield and Assistant Professor Stefan Leyk are PI's on a $440,000 NSF grant titled "Putting People in Their Place: Constructing a...
February 01, 2010 - Julia Hicks Receives Rocky Mountain National Park Research Grant. The National Park Service awards the grants for research in Rocky Mountain...
February 01, 2010 - Andrew Linke was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award for 2010-2011 from the Geography and Regional Science program of the...
January 01, 2010 - Mark Williams receives National Science Foundation GEO grant: Developing a Methodology to Estimate Snow Depth from GPS Data; $380,051; 1/1/10-...
January 01, 2010 - Michelle Stewart receives Research Associate Award University of Wisconsin-Madison NSF IGERT Training Program on Biodiversity Conservation and...
November 30, 2009 - A contingent from the University of Colorado at Boulder will be attending the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen December 7 to...
October 06, 2009 - Despite a slight recovery in summer Arctic sea ice in 2009 from record-setting low years in 2007 and 2008, the sea ice extent remains significantly...
September 01, 2009 - Mark Williams receives National Science Foundation CMG Grant: "Multiscale nonlinear domain decomposition method for modeling the impact of climate...
September 01, 2008 - Michelle Stewart receives Research Associate Award University of Wisconsin-Madison NSF IGERT Training Program on Biodiversity Conservation and...
September 15, 2007 - Mark Williams receives NSF GEO: Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory: Weathered Profile Development in a Rocky Environment and Its Influence on...
