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Katie was awarded a 2015-16 Community Based Research Graduate Fellowship through ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Engage . This fellowship is designed for a cohort of 3-5 PhD students.The purpose is to train a generation of scholars in the practices and principles of community-based research (CBR).

Emily T. Yeh's Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell University Press, 2013) is an award-winning critical analysis of the production and transformation of the Tibetan landscape since 1950, construing development as a "state project that is presented as a gift to the Tibetan people" especially...

CPR interview regarding the recent groundwater sampling campaign that was incorporated into the summer 2015 Hydrologic Field Methods course taught by Geography PhD student Alice Hill. After training on the protocol and methods, the students performed the well water sampling for this baseline study. KVFN Regional Newscast June 10, 2015 minutes 3:08-5:36

Congratulations to the 2015-2016 Jennifer Dinaburg Memorial Research Fellowship recipients: Katie Clifford, Lauren Gifford, Aaron Malone, Daniela Marini, and Meagan Todd.

Congratulations to the Class of 2015! The Geography Department commencement ceremony was held at the UMC in the Glenn Miller Ballroom in front of a packed audience of happy students, family, friends, and faculty. The event was followed by a reception on the UMC patio. Check out the photos and...

Novorossiya is frozen. Last week Oleg Tsarev, leader of the ‘parliament’ that ostensibly united the eastern Ukraine separatist entities, the Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk Peoples Republic (LPR), announced the project was now on hold. The reason Tsarev gave was that Novorossiya was incompatible with the Minsk II...

The Colorado Mountain Club Foundation awarded Julia the Neal Kindig Fellowship for 2015. She will use the fellowship to support her research examining the importance of American three-toed woodpeckers as disturbance specialists in Colorado. Julia will use a combination of GIS and field research to determine if spruce beetle outbreaks...

Kaitlin was awarded a 2015-2016 Fulbright U.S. Student Award. Kaitlin will use the award to support her dissertation research in Armenia. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program of the United States. Kaitlin will represent the country as a cultural ambassador while overseas, helping to enhance mutual...

Caitlin was awarded a 2015-2016 Fulbright U.S. Student Award. Caitlin will use the award to support her dissertation research in Kyrgyzstan. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program of the United States. Caitlin will represent the country as a cultural ambassador while overseas, helping to enhance mutual...

Kathryn Wright and Ian Rowen have been selected as the 2015-2016 recipients of the Department's Gilbert White Fellowship. The fellowship provides dissertation writing support for a semester.