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The Geography Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder has been ranked 2nd in the country in the latest release of doctoral program rankings from the National Research Council (NRC). CU Geography was also the top ranked doctoral program on campus in the NRC rankings. Other Geography programs ranked...

Researchers from the University of Colorado will partner with colleagues at other schools to study fire and climate change in forests in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. A $3.85 million grant from the National Science Foundation is funding the project. CU-Boulder geography professor Thomas Veblen and his group...

Monica T. Rother begins work as a graduate student researcher for the NSF wildFIRE PIRE project

Many consider ground zero a sacred place -- as well as the battlefield at Gettysburg, the Lincoln Memorial and the site of the Oklahoma City bombing, among many others. These places often have nothing to do with religion, so it can be difficult define which uses of the spaces are...

For Professor Ken Foote, America's hallowed grounds fall into three general categories: those made sacred through the death of a martyr, like the sites of the assassinations of Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.; those made sacred through ethical heroic moments, like Gettysburg, and those made sacred through community disasters,...

Ian received the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for academic year 2010-2011.

Tim Oakes was quoted in today's Washington Post in an article about China's western development campaign. See more at The Washington Post >

Emily is quoted in the New York Times regarding her research on government subsidized new home development in Tibet. See more at The New York Times >

Teresa Chapman has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award for 2010-2011 from the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program of the National Science Foundation. Teresa is conducting research on mountain pine beetle and fire influences on the regeneration of lodgepole pine in northern Colorado.

Andres Holz and Juan Paritsis, both of whom received CU Geography Ph.D.s in 2009, have received prestigious Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowships of $25,000 each for 2010-11. The aim of the Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowship program is to identify individuals who will contribute to the educational mission of the campus, and to support...