Afton Clarke-Sather wins a Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Scholarship

April 2, 2009

Only fifty years ago, the geopolitical landscape shifted with the emergence of independent nations and the bipolar struggle for influence in world regions. U.S. leaders were increasingly confronted with the need to understand the Soviet Union, its allies, and the countries of the world in which the Cold War was...

Michelle Olsgard awarded a 2009 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

April 2, 2009

Michelle Olsgard and Natalie Koch, both graduate students in the CU-Boulder Geography department, received an award despite there being only five such fellowships awarded in all of Geography in the US. The National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of...

Natalie Koch has been awarded a 2009 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

April 2, 2009

Natalie Koch and Michelle Olsgard, both graduate students in the CU-Boulder Geography department, received an award despite there being only five such fellowships awarded in all of Geography in the US. The National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of...

Adam Williams awarded a CARTSS Graduate Fellowship

April 2, 2009

The Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) supports social science research and teaching initiatives on the CU campus. CARTSS has funded research and teaching in every social science department on campus. See examples of projects receiving CARTSS support at http://cartss.colorado.edu/ssawardees.html The CARTSS Graduate Student Fellows...

Ted Holland awarded a CARTSS Graduate Fellowship

April 2, 2009

The Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) supports social science research and teaching initiatives on the CU campus. CARTSS has funded research and teaching in every social science department on campus. See examples of projects receiving CARTSS support at http://cartss.colorado.edu/ssawardees.html The CARTSS Graduate Student Fellows...

Jennifer Dinaburg wins an NSF IGERT Award and a Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship

April 2, 2009

See U.S. Dept of Education FLAS Fellowship Program for more information.

Afton Clarke-Sather wins Dissertation enhancement Award from the AAG Political Geography Group

April 1, 2009

The PGSG Dissertation Enhancement Award of $800.00 is to be granted annually to a PGSG student member. Interested students should prepare a mini-dissertation proposal for submission to the Dissertation Awards Committee.

Adam Williams Awarded an Adam Kolff Fellowship for Field Research

April 1, 2009

During Summer 2009, I began my pilot field research in Shanghai by exploring potential field sites and visiting departments of geography, sociology, anthropology and civil engineering at Shanghai's Tongi University, Jiaotong University and Shanghai Daxue. I visited scrap yards in Shanghai's Luwan, Jing'an, Hongkou and Xuhui districts, and collected a...

Adina Racoviteanu awarded a CIRES Graduate Student Fellowship for 2009-2010

March 29, 2009

Seven Ph.D. students at CU-Boulder will have the unique opportunity to tackle exciting science questions with top researchers in their fields as part of the CIRES Graduate Student Research Fellowship program. The students will explore a variety of creative geoscience topics, from modeling the influence of melt water on the...

Roger Barry wins an Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis award

March 15, 2009

Roger Barry was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for Geophysics for 2009-10 and will spend mid-May - early November at the Glaciology Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich, Germany.

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