Phurwa Gurung

Phurwa Gurung Wins 2022 Geoforum Student Paper Award

April 7, 2022

We are pleased to announce Phurwa Gurung 's student paper received an award for his paper published in Geoforum in 2021. Phurwa will receive a 1000 euro award, which is intended to support conference attendance or a similar professional development activity. His paper is titled, "Challenging infrastructural orthodoxies: Political and...

Sáde Cromratie Clemons

Sáde Cromratie Clemons Awarded Scholarship

April 5, 2022

The Indian Peaks Wilderness Association (IPWA) has awarded Sáde Cromratie Clemons a $2000 scholarship. Sáde studies forests' environmental and physiological responses to the 2013 babyÖ±²¥app Front Range flood and how these responses can affect carbon storage and transport within forests. IPWA requires Sáde to complete a 3-5 minute informative video...

Katie Tyler

Katie Tyler Wins GIS in the Rockies Competition

Sept. 23, 2021

Katie Tyler won a GIS in the Rockies (GISITR) competition for the most promising graduate student enrolled in a university or college in the Rocky Mountain region (Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, babyÖ±²¥app, Arizona and New Mexico) for a portion of her Masters thesis research "Systematic Criteria Selection for Suitability...

Katarena Mato

Katarena Matos Awarded ARCS Scholarship

Sept. 9, 2021

We are pleased to announce Katarena Matos has been awarded an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation, Inc scholarship. Katarena is a PhD student of Geography. ARCS Foundation, Inc. is a national organization dedicated to supporting the best and brightest United States graduate and undergraduate scholars by providing financial...

Phurwa Gurung

Phurwa Gurung Awarded 2020 Dor Bahadur Bista Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper

June 25, 2021

The Dor Bahadur Bista Prize honors the life, career, and service of Dor Bahadur Bista, Nepal’s first anthropologist and former Honorary President of the ANHS predecessor organization, the Nepal Studies Association (NSA). The purpose of the prize is to recognize outstanding scholarship by students whose research focuses on the areas...

Jessica Voveris

Jessica Voveris Wins theÌýThompson AwardÌýFirst Prize in the Graduate Memoir category

May 3, 2021

The Center of the American West hosted a Zoom event to celebrate the 22nd annual Thompson Awards on April 28th, 2021. In this intimate early evening gathering, judges from each category introduced both the winners and the honorable mentions. The ‘audience’ then listened to the authors read excerpts and show...

Xiaoling Chen

Xiaoling Chen Received SWG Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research

April 27, 2021

Xiaoling Chen was awarded a Society of Woman Geographers Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research for 2021-2022. This grant will support her dissertation fieldwork during the 2021-2022 academic year. She will conduct an ethnographic study in China on the impacts of health care reform and examine the transformation...

Shruthi Jagadeesh

Shruthi Jagadeesh Wins Graduate Part Time Instructor Appreciation Award

April 19, 2021

Shruthi Jagadeesh has been selected as a recipient of a Spring 2021 Graduate Part Time Instructor Appreciation Award. The Geography department nominated her for this award in recognition of how she has risen to the challenges presented by teaching during the pandemic. Shruthi is a PhD student of Geography. She...

Jessica DiCarlo

Jessica DiCarlo ReceivesÌý2021 Summer Graduate School Fellowship

April 2, 2021

Jessica DiCarlo was selected as a recipient of the 2021 Summer Graduate School Fellowship. The Geography department nominated her for this Fellowship to support her dissertation writing. Her project, Steel Silk Roads and the Making of the Infrastructure Frontier is an ethnographic study on the Laos-China Railroad that examines China's...

Rachel Chai

Rachel Chai Wins Part-Time Instructor Award

Nov. 3, 2020

Rachel Chai has been selected as a recipient of a Fall 2020 Graduate Part Time Instructor Appreciation Award . The Geography department nominated her for this award in recognition of how she has risen to the challenges presented by teaching during the pandemic. Rachel is a PhD student of Geography...

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