CU Geography is ranked 2nd in nation

Sept. 28, 2010

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...

Ian Rowen Receives Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship

Aug. 16, 2010

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

Teresa Chapman Wins NSF Dissertation Award

June 21, 2010

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.

Geography Receives Two Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowships

June 21, 2010

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...

Cole Akeson Receives American Councils Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Fellowship

June 1, 2010

Cole Akeson Receives American Councils Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Fellowship, Ukraine, ($7,900)

Connor Sheehan Receives IBS Grant

June 1, 2010

Connor Sheehan is the recipient of a pilot project grant from the Institute of Behavioral Science to study the relationship between migration and informality in Latin America. $8100.

John Knowles Receives Gary Gaile Memorial Research Fellowship

May 3, 2010

John Knowles Receives Gary Gaile Memorial Research Fellowship from the Department of Geography.

Frank Witmer Receives the 2010 Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship

May 1, 2010

The Colwell Fellowship will support his research to develop new algorithms for radiometric normalization of night-time imagery from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). No record was made of on-board DMSP calibration adjustments over many years. This means that to detect changes over time, it is necessary to radiometrically normalize...

Tom Veblen, Andres Holz and Juan Paritsis win NSF grant

May 1, 2010

Professor Tom Veblen is PI and recent CU graduates Andres Holz and Juan Paritsis are Postdoctoral Research Associates on a new NSF award entitled 芒鈧揥ildfire Regime Shifts in Southern South America from Tree-Ring Reconstructed Fire History Networks: Climatic Controls, Land Use, and Ecological Feedbacks.芒鈧 The three-year award for $300,000 will...

Meredith Gartner wins NSF Dissertation Award

May 1, 2010

Meredith Gartner has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award for 2010-2011 from the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program of the National Science Foundation. Meredith is conducting research in the ponderosa pine zone of the Colorado Front Range on how landscape variability and fire history affect the spread and severity...

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