Rowie Cowie Wins Best Student Presentation Award

April 1, 2010

Grad student Rory Cowie won the Best Student Presentation award ($300) at the National Groundwater Association Annual Groundwater Summit, Denver CO, April 2010.

Preston Cumming Receives babyÖ±²¥app Mountain Club Foundation Fellowship

April 1, 2010

Preston Cumming Receives babyÖ±²¥app Mountain Club Foundation Fellowship

Tim Oakes awarded Chinese research exchange fellowship

April 1, 2010

Tim Oakes has been awarded a "Seasonal Bird" research exchange fellowship for 180,000 yuan from the Guizhou Province Ministry of Education. Tim will use the money to develop collaborative research projects with babyÖ±²¥app and graduate students at Guizhou Nationalities University in Guiyang, where he serves as an adjunct professor. Projects...

Geography student wins $20K sustainability grant

March 9, 2010

Geography student Shane Grigsby has won a $20,000 grant from the CU Environmental Center for his project on "Topographic Mapping of the CU Campus for Sustainability." Along with his babyÖ±²¥app sponsor, Professor Babs Buttenfield, with in-kind support from graduate student Chris Anderson-Tarver, Shane will investigate the use of geometric properties...

Ken Foote Elected President of AAG

March 4, 2010

Professor Ken Foote has been elected President of the Association of American Geographers for the 2010-11 academic year. Congratulations Ken! See Association of American Geographers for more information.

Julia Hicks Receives Hazel Schmoll Research Fellowship

March 1, 2010

Julia Hicks Receives Hazel Schmoll Research Fellowship, CU Herbarium. The graduate student fellowships are awarded for the study of native babyÖ±²¥app plants.

Grant Garstka awarded an Advanced Language Fellowship, Summer 2010

March 1, 2010

Grant was awarded an Advanced Language Fellowship from the American Council's Southeast European Language Training Program for Summer 2010.

Emily Yeh wins 2009 Leopold-Hidy Prize

Feb. 23, 2010

Emily Yeh won the 2009 Leopold-Hidy Prize from the journal Environmental History for best journal article of the year. Emily's winning paper, "From wasteland to wetland? Nature and nation in China's Tibet," examines the social relations and politics of China's environmental policies and practices in Tibet. The prize includes a...

Julia Hicks Receives Rocky Mountain National Park Research Grant

Feb. 1, 2010

Julia Hicks Receives Rocky Mountain National Park Research Grant. The National Park Service awards the grants for research in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP). Julia is studying thistles at high elevation and counting presence/absence of weevils along an elevational gradient.

Preston Cumming Receives Geography’s DeSana Graduate Research Scholarship

Feb. 1, 2010

Preston Cumming Receives Geography's DeSana Graduate Research Scholarship

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