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.

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 鈥渆thnography of geopolitics鈥 in...

John Knowles Receives UGGS Travel Grant

Sept. 30, 2014

John was awarded a travel grant from United Government of Graduate Students.

Seth Spielman receives Michael Breheny Prize

Sept. 29, 2014

Seth received the Michael Breheny Prize for the Best Paper in Environment and Planning. The paper, with Enki Yoo and Crystal Linkletter is called "Neighborhood contexts, health, and behavior: understanding the role of scale and residential sorting.鈥 The Breheny Prize is awarded annually by the editors for the most innovative...

Amy Schubert offered Fulbright-Hays DDRA award

Sept. 18, 2014

Amy was selected for a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowship by the U.S. Department of Education.

Joel Correia Receives The Best Should Teach Silver Award 2014

Aug. 15, 2014

The Best Should Teach Initiative strives to acknowledge excellence in teaching and academic leadership. See more at Best Should Teach Initiative (link no longer available)

Dominik Schneider Receives NASA Fellowship

May 28, 2014

Congratulations to Dominik for winning a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship which will provide him with full support for three years. His project will use satellite observations, models, and ground measurements to estimate snow water equivalent in the Colorado River Basin. The data sets will provide water managers throughout...

O鈥橪oughlin awarded grant for research on attitudes & beliefs in Russian-supported 鈥榙e facto鈥 states

May 19, 2014

A new research grant from the National Science Foundation for Attitudes and beliefs in Russian-supported 'de facto' states and Eastern Ukraine in the wake of the Crimean annexation was awarded to John O'Loughlin. Funding from May 2014 to April 2015 of $156,633. The project is designed to scientifically study public...

Joel Correia Receives Latin American Studies Center Grants

May 1, 2014

Joel has been awarded travel and research grants from the Latin American Studies Center 兔子先生传媒文化作品.

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