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The Department of Geography received an Assett (Arts and Sciences Support of Education Through Technology) award relating to the use of technology primarily for teaching and learning. The funding will be used to implement the use of mobile web and applications into many of the Geography course labs and recitations...

Fellowship is conferred on less than 0.1% of the 60,000 AGU members from 148 countries in any given year and recognizes scientists who have attained acknowledged eminence in the Earth and space sciences. The primary criteria for evaluation are major breakthroughs or discoveries and paradigm shifts. Williams was elected "for...

Meagan was awarded a 2012-2013 American Councils Advanced Research Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State, Title VIII Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Independent States of the Former Soviet Union). Megan will use the fellowship to fund her research on mosque construction in Moscow.

Ian was awarded a $500 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) grant to support his continuing Indonesian language study. The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State sponsors the Critical Language Scholarship Program.

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 Research Node at the University of Colorado. The node's research will focus on using new forms of spatial micro-data to improve our understanding of the geographic micro-structure of...

CU Boulder's team (Ted Holland, Alana Wilson, Ian Rowen, Sam Smith, Mark Stover, and Preston Cumming) WON the Regional Geography Bowl at this years Great Plains Rocky Mountain Regional AAG meeting on Friday. There were six teams present, including perennial favorite Kansas State. CU Geography won by a whopping 59...

Chris was awarded a $750 scholarship from the Rocky Mountain Geospatial Information and Technology Association. The academic scholarship is designed for students exhibiting academic excellence in the geospatial technologies fields. See GITA Website for more information.

A study by Andres Holz and Tom Veblen indicates a major climate oscillation in the Southern Hemisphere that is expected to intensify in the coming decades will likely cause increased wildfire activity in much of the southern half of South America. See more at CU-Boulder News Center >

John was awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant.

The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Colorado Boulder a six-year, $5.9 million grant to continue intensive studies of long-term ecological changes in Colorado's high mountains, both natural and human-caused, over decades and centuries. See Daily Camera article > See Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research for more information.