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  • Drone shot of dirt road with forest on one and clear cut tree on other side
    Joel Correia graduated with a PhD from CU Geography in August 2017. It has been a bit of a whirlwind since then. After parking his rented U-Haul truck in the dirt parking lot of a Starbucks in Santa Fe during the post-defense
  • bent over trees in arctic forest
    Permafrost degradation is an issue of international concern with major consequences that reach far beyond the Arctic Circle. These consequences are already beginning to manifest themselves. The catastrophic Norilsk fuel spill
  • Xiaoling Chen
    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
  • Mykael Pineda
    Undergraduate student, Mykael Pineda, was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Individual Grant for her 鈥淐limate Sensitive Post-Fire Management鈥 project. She will be co-mentored by Holly Barnard and GEOG Alum Teresa Chapman
  • Shruthi Jagadeesh
    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
  • Zac Clement
    Congratulations to CU Geography undergraduate Zac Clement!  He was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Individual Grant for the 21-22 academic year to work on his research project "Constructing 'Home': Undergraduate
  • Anila Narayana
    Congratulations to CU Geography undergraduate Anila Narayana!  She was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Individual Grant for the Summer 2021 term to work on the project 鈥淔ood for Thought: Examining Intersections
  • Emily Yeh
    Emily YehWe鈥檝e arrived at the end of a difficult year. As Professor Bill Travis wrote in the Spring newsletter, the campus shut down in March, causing all classes to go remote. This Fall Semester has been equally
  • Woman drilling a hole in a small tree in the mountains
    My love of travel and the environment led me to seek out opportunities to learn new skills and leverage these to travel around the world. This desire transitioned into a degree in Geography. In fact, I am one of the
  • A hand holding the GEOG logo with the words "Our future is in your hands" and "Charitable Giving"
    Thank You! The Department of Geography is grateful to its alumni and friends for their financial support over the years. Our donors have had a big impact, making a difference not only to the Department as a whole, but
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