Honors & Awards
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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, CU Herbarium. The graduate student fellowships are awarded for the study of native babyÖ±²¥app plants.
- Grant was awarded an Advanced Language Fellowship from the American Council's Southeast European Language Training Program for Summer 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
- 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
- Preston Cumming Receives Geography's DeSana Graduate Research Scholarship