Department News

Mobile Vaccination Bus (photo taken by Xiaoling Chen in 2021) Xiaoling Chen , PhD candidate in Geography, was awarded a Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the academic year 2023-2024. This fellowship is intended to provide outstanding PhD candidates with financial support to assist in the process of completing their...

Diego Melo (CU Geography), Bernardino Mosquera (Río Quito, Chocó) and Juan Diego Espinosa (National University of Colombia) have been awarded one of ten Antipode Foundation “Right to the Discipline” Grants. They will develop a community-based film with Black and White-Mestizo peasant-farmer communities living along the upper Atrato River basin in...

We are very sorry to pass along the news that Mark Williams , Professor Emeritus of Geography and INSTAAR Fellow Emeritus, passed away in Boulder on June 6. Mark led Niwot LTER at CU for two program cycles, 2004-2014, and is responsible for many of the accomplishments and directions that...

Fulbright Global Scholar Awards will enable Tim Oakes of geography and Brian Valente-Quinn of French to spend up to a year in travel, study, research and teaching Tim Oakes and Brian Valente-Quinn have won Fulbright Global Scholar Awards for 2023-24, allowing them to spend up to a year abroad to...

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The 2023 Spring 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...

David Fernando Bachrach is a PhD candidate in the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Geography. He will be attending an intensive Indonesian language course for 8 weeks over the summer at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia's (UPI) Language Center in Bandung. This opportunity to study at UPI's Language Center will help...

David Fernando Bachrach is a third-year PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography. He received a 2023-2024 Fulbright Research Award to support his dissertation research project "Global China and the Techno-Politics of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway". By undertaking a long-term qualitative study of the high-speed railway, his project will provide...

Tim Oakes won a 2023-24 Fulbright Global Scholar award for his project “The hinterlands of global China: infrastructures of life beyond the urban”. This is a collaborative project with scholars in Oslo and in Singapore to develop a theoretical foundation and a new research agenda for interpreting critically China’s deepening...

Tsering Lhamo has been awarded the 2023-2024 Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship. The Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship is a joint education agreement between the governments of the United States and India and serves as a key pillar of strategic dialogue between the two governments through academic exchanges and collaborations. The fellowship is designed...