Department News

Xiaoling Chen 's essay titled "‘ They Want the Horse to Run but Without Providing Feed’ : Labour Exploitation of Healthcare Workers in China " was published in the journal Made In China , as part of the issue "Out of the Fog" . Completed in Spring 2023, this essay...

Watch the TED talk here . In this eye-opening TEDxBoulder talk, Jill Adler Grano delves into Boulder's rich history and the pressing issues that continue to shape the city today. Adler Grano uncovers the untold story of Boulder's past and reveals the city’s classist and racist roots. She passionately discusses...

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 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...

CU Boulder showing of film, followed by panel discussion including Chileans who grew up in the dictatorship, will address the 50-year legacy of the 1973 military coup and Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year rule Fifty years ago this month, Gen. Augusto Pinochet led a military coup to overthrow democratically elected Chilean President...

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'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...

NASA Future Investigators in Nasa Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST). I recently received a fellowship from NASA that will fund the rest of my PhD in Geography. My project is titled: "Mapping and Analyzing the Distribution and Drivers of Small Agricultural Reservoirs in Brazil". It's a fellowship which...

Katherine Clifford, a recent PhD and scientist at the Western Water Assessment, named to American Association of Geographers ‘Elevate the Discipline’ cohort Katherine (Katie) Clifford , a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder, is among 15 geographers to be designated as “public scholars” in the realm of climate and...

The numbers are staggering: As of Wednesday, Phoenix had hit 20 straight days at or above 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius); El Paso, Texas, had sweltered for 33 days above 100 F; and Las Vegas is under an excessive heat warning, expected to reach a scorching 113 F this...