CU ranks number 2 in Geosciences, including climatology and all other aspects of physical geography

Nov. 16, 2014

University of Colorado Boulder is ranked #2 among the top universities for Geosciences. US News and World Report

Ian Rowen writes commentary for the Guardian

Nov. 12, 2014

Read Ian Rowen's commentary "Hong Kong Umbrella protests are here to stay"

Ian Rowen writes article for Thinking Taiwan

Nov. 12, 2014

Ian Rowen's article is titled "In Search of Sunflower Seeds in Hong Kong"

Study ties conflict risk in sub-Saharan Africa to climate change, socioeconomics, geography

Nov. 10, 2014

A massive new University of Colorado Boulder study indicates there is a statistical link between hotter temperatures generated by climate change and the risk of armed conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. CU-Boulder Professor John O’Loughlin led a research team that assessed more than 78,000 armed conflicts between 1980 and 2012 in...

Xiwei Guo Receives OIE Global Citizen Award

Nov. 4, 2014

The Office of International Education announced that Geography undergraduate, Xiwei Guo, was selected for the Muneeb Kamal International Student of the Year 2014 award. This award is in recognition of Xiwei's outstanding contributions to promote international understanding. Congratulations Xiwei.

NASA Research Opportunities for Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) Grant Received

Oct. 20, 2014

Ph.D. candidate Mike MacFerrin, along with his adviser Dr. Waleed Abdalati and collaborators at the University of Washington, received notice of a NASA award for MacFerrin's proposal "Quantifying Firn Compaction and its Implications for Altimetry-based Mass Balance Estimates of the Greenland Ice Sheet." The project (3-years, $733,000) will complete MacFerrin's...

Joel Correia Awarded Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

Oct. 16, 2014

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship will support Joel's dissertation fieldwork in Paraguay from February 2014 to January 2015. Joel's research comprises a comparative case study of three Inter-American Court of Human Rights cases in favor of indigenous territorial claims in the Paraguayan Chaco. Using a variety of qualitative...

Galen Murton Awarded Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

Oct. 16, 2014

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship will support Galen's fieldwork in Nepal and Tibet from November 2014-July 2015. His research examines how international politics and cultural identities intersect and are mutually constituted through development. Using roads as a lens of observation, he will conduct an “ethnography of geopolitics†in...

Ian Rowen quoted in El Mundo

Oct. 11, 2014

Ian was quoted in an El Mundo article regarding Taiwanese student activism. Read article in Spanish

Adam Levy Receives Fulbright Award

Oct. 3, 2014

Adam is among four University of Colorado Boulder faculty and staff who received Fulbright Scholar grants to pursue research, teaching and training abroad during the 2014-15 academic year. Levy is teaching a number of graduate-level courses at Moldova State University and the State Institute for International Relations in the city...

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