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Check out our Spring 2018 Newsletter!

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Interview with Tom Veblen, Distinguished Professor

Tom (center) in New Zealand, 1979 I recently interviewed Tom Veblen to discuss being given the University’s highest faculty honor, Distinguished Professor , and learn more about Tom’s exceptional career. I came away with a strong appreciation for his life's work in forest ecology and environmental science. Our Fall 2017...

Department News

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Shae Frydenlund Awarded NSF DDRI Grant

Shae Frydenlund was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) grant to support her dissertation research project titled "Rohingya Refugees, Translocality, and the Gendered Labor Geography of Urban Revitalization". This doctoral dissertation project examines the role of refugee women in the revitalization of American cities. It offers a new...

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Dorje Tashi Awarded NSF DDRI Grant

Dorje Tashi ( Duojie Zhaxi ) was awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) grant. The award will support his dissertation research project titled "Tibetan Farmers in Transition: Urbanization, Development, and Labor Migration in Amdo." His doctoral dissertation research project will investigate how social-cultural and political-economic processes intersect to...

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Monica Rother Accepts Assistant Professorship at UNCW

Monica Rother (PhD 2015) is accepting a tenure-track assistant professor position in Environmental Sciences at the University of North Carolina Wilmington . Monica is a forest ecologist with expertise in biogeography, disturbance ecology, global change ecology, and fire history. Her dissertation work addressed spatial and temporal patterns of post-fire conifer...

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CAS Wins Major Grant from Henry Luce Foundation

Center for Asian Studies wins three-year grant from Henry Luce Foundation to conduct trans-Pacific studies in ‘lively research field’ (article by Clint Talbot) As the United States steps back from international development, China is launching huge infrastructure projects as a way to broaden its global influence. For scholars at the...

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Mehran Ghandehari awarded the 2017-2018 ASPRS Rocky Mountain Region Scholarship

Doctoral student Mehran Ghandehari won the 2017-2018 ASPRS Rocky Mountain Region Scholarship. This award is granted by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing to support doctoral research on “Cross-Scale Analysis of Surface-Adjusted Measurements in Spatial Analysis”. His research incorporates terrain, slope, and curvature into GIS modeling computations, monitoring...

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New Geography Club Website Launched

The Geography Club website recently launched. If you are interested in joining in on the fun, please check it out. From the website: The -Boulder Geography Club provides a place for undergraduate and graduate students to connect by fostering interest, discussion, and increased knowledge about the world around them. We...