An Interview with Emily Yeh

June 17, 2015

Emily T. Yeh's Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell University Press, 2013) is an award-winning critical analysis of the production and transformation of the Tibetan landscape since 1950, construing development as a "state project that is presented as a gift to the Tibetan people" especially...

Water Well Testing In The North Fork Valley

June 10, 2015

CPR interview regarding the recent groundwater sampling campaign that was incorporated into the summer 2015 Hydrologic Field Methods course taught by Geography PhD student Alice Hill. After training on the protocol and methods, the students performed the well water sampling for this baseline study. KVFN Regional Newscast June 10, 2015 minutes 3:08-5:36

Dinaburg Memorial Fellowships Awarded to 5 Grad Â鶹ÒùÔº

June 1, 2015

Congratulations to the 2015-2016 Jennifer Dinaburg Memorial Research Fellowship recipients: Katie Clifford, Lauren Gifford, Aaron Malone, Daniela Marini, and Meagan Todd.

PHOTOS: Geography Department Commencement, May 2015

May 27, 2015

Congratulations to the Class of 2015! The Geography Department commencement ceremony was held at the UMC in the Glenn Miller Ballroom in front of a packed audience of happy students, family, friends, and faculty. The event was followed by a reception on the UMC patio. Check out the photos and...

What people in southeast Ukraine really think of Novorossiya

May 25, 2015

Novorossiya is frozen. Last week Oleg Tsarev, leader of the ‘parliament’ that ostensibly united the eastern Ukraine separatist entities, the Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk Peoples Republic (LPR), announced the project was now on hold. The reason Tsarev gave was that Novorossiya was incompatible with the Minsk II...

Julia Hicks Receives Neal Kindig Fellowship

May 22, 2015

The Colorado Mountain Club Foundation awarded Julia the Neal Kindig Fellowship for 2015. She will use the fellowship to support her research examining the importance of American three-toed woodpeckers as disturbance specialists in Colorado. Julia will use a combination of GIS and field research to determine if spruce beetle outbreaks...

Kaitlin Fertaly Receives Fulbright Award

May 18, 2015

Kaitlin was awarded a 2015-2016 Fulbright U.S. Student Award. Kaitlin will use the award to support her dissertation research in Armenia. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program of the United States. Kaitlin will represent the country as a cultural ambassador while overseas, helping to enhance mutual...

Caitlin Ryan Receives Fulbright Award

May 18, 2015

Caitlin was awarded a 2015-2016 Fulbright U.S. Student Award. Caitlin will use the award to support her dissertation research in Kyrgyzstan. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program of the United States. Caitlin will represent the country as a cultural ambassador while overseas, helping to enhance mutual...

Gilbert White Fellowships Awarded to Kathryn Wright and Ian Rowen

May 15, 2015

Kathryn Wright and Ian Rowen have been selected as the 2015-2016 recipients of the Department's Gilbert White Fellowship. The fellowship provides dissertation writing support for a semester.

Taking the Long View on Recovery in Nepal

May 3, 2015

Galen Murton's guest commentary published in The Denver Post. Read commentary.

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