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Meredith has been named a Philanthropic Education Organization (P.E.O.) Evelyn K. Aitken Named Scholar. The P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA) were established in 1991 to provide substantial merit-based awards for women pursuing doctoral degrees in the U.S. and Canada. Of the 85 doctoral students selected as P.E.O. Scholars in 2015, the...

Emily Yeh's Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development named a Foreign Affairs best book of 2014 on Asia and the Pacific.

Ian writes about the political impacts of Chinese tourism to Taiwan and Hong Kong. BBC article in Chinese

Ian compares and contrasts spatial organization, tactics, and daily life in the Hong Kong Umbrella and Taiwan Sunflower Movements. New Bloom interview

Ian's piece discusses researcher risk and positionality in the context of his participant-observation of the Taiwan Sunflower and Hong Kong Umbrella Movements.

Western U.S. forests killed by the mountain pine beetle epidemic are no more at risk to burn than healthy Western forests, according to new findings by the University of Colorado Boulder that fly in the face of both public perception and policy. The ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder study authors looked at the three...

Julia has received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award from the National Science Foundation. This grant will support her research on "Avian Community Response to Broad-Scale Ecological Disturbances Across Spruce-Fir Forests".

Ian Rowen quoted by the BBC about the backlash against Chinese tourists Read BBC article

Bryan Hankinson, a fall 2014 ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder student who graduated magna cum laude in Geography, developed his honors thesis by investigating the relationship between an increase in spruce bark beetle population and a decrease in American red squirrel population. Read Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine article

One year after Russia's Vladimir Putin pulled Crimea back under the purview of his government, polling data shows the majority of ethnic Ukrainians and Russians living there like this turn of events. So, was it an act of repression, or a welcome succession? Listen to The Current interview