honors and awards

Hayes Hart-Thompson received a PACES Tier 2 Grant

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:49:30 +0000

Hayes Hart-Thompson received a PACES Tier 2 Grant Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/07/2024 - 13:49

Hayes Hart-Thompson received the ��Ƶ Boulder Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) Tier 2 Grant, for their proposal titled, Geo-Justice: Human-Centered Design for K-12 Geography Design-a-thon.

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Sara Fleming received a PACES Tier 2 Grant

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:44:43 +0000

Sara Fleming received a PACES Tier 2 Grant Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/07/2024 - 13:44

Sara Fleming received the ��Ƶ Boulder Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) Tier 2 Grant. The proposal is titled, Colorado Mobile Home Park Preservation & Community Ownership Website.

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Kate Carlson has been awarded the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium’s Emerging Professional Award for 2024

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:34:19 +0000

Kate Carlson has been awarded the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium’s Emerging Professional Award for 2024 Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 10/04/2024 - 07:34

Kate Carlson has been awarded the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium’s Emerging Professional Award in 2024, for accomplishments while at the State of Minnesota (MNIT DNR). The award is given by her peers in the Minnesota geospatial community. The Emerging Professional Award is meant to recognize individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary application(s) of GIS and/or made a significant contribution to the GIS community at an early stage in their career. Kate is the Southern Region GIS Support Specialist for the state, doing analysis, training and problem solving for the MNIT/DNR. She will receive the aware at this years GIS/LIS conference ceremony on Friday 4 Oct in Minnesota.

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Isaac Rivera receives the AAG Digital Geographies Outstanding Dissertation Award

Anonymous — Fri, 17 May 2024 18:00:58 +0000

Isaac Rivera receives the AAG Digital Geographies Outstanding Dissertation Award Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 05/17/2024 - 12:00

Incoming Geography faculty member, Isaac Rivera has received the Outstanding Dissertation award from the Digital Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. His dissertation is entitled: "Mapping the Terms of Freedom & the Ongoing Refusal of Settler Imaginaries".

Abstract: Originating in Denver, Colorado in 1907 and exported as a national holiday in 1934, Columbus Day enacts the logic and institutionalization of conquest. Yet despite the seemingly totalizing imaginary of ongoing settler colonialism, Indigenous peoples continue to resist erasure. Mapping the Terms of Freedom & The Ongoing Refusal of Settler Imaginaries, traces the making and unmaking of settler imaginaries in Denver and the ways in which the city’s Indigenous communities choose to represent their stories of resistance to the world. I connect the way institutions of knowledge maintain settler imaginaries in place through the entanglement of visual and digital knowledge practices in settler colonialism. Using ethnographic, archival, and participatory research methods, I trace self-determined Indigenous representations of strength through the community curated (Re)Mapping Native Denver art exhibit that maps Indigenous geographies and dismantles the logics implicated in the settler imaginary. Held at Denver University (DU) in 2021, the (Re)Mapping Native Art Exhibit stood as a site of public facing education, demonstrating the liberatory power of retelling geo-history on the terms of Indigenous peoples.

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Jessica Finlay Receives Emerging Scholar Award in Health and Medical Geography

Anonymous — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:18:23 +0000

Jessica Finlay Receives Emerging Scholar Award in Health and Medical Geography Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 05/01/2024 - 08:18

During the 2024 Association of American Geographers (AAG) meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, Dr. Jessica Finlay was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award in Health and Medical Geography. This is a highly competitive award. According to the AAG website, this award "seeks to recognize early career scholars who show significant potential for distinguished scholarship in health and/or medical geography." Dr. Finlay will be invited to give a special symposium talk on her research during the 2025 AAG conference in Detroit, Michigan.

We look forward to her symposium talk!

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Emily Yeh Named College Professor of Distinction

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:42:11 +0000

Emily Yeh Named College Professor of Distinction Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/01/2024 - 09:42

Emily Yeh has been named Professor of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences in recognition of her exceptional service, teaching and research. This revered title is reserved for scholars and artists of national and international acclaim who college peers also recognize as exceptionally talented teachers and colleagues. Honorees of this award hold this title for the remainder of their careers in the College of Arts and Sciences at ��Ƶ Boulder.

Dr. Yeh will be honored on Friday, April 26th, 2024 in the annual Arts and Sciences Recognition Reception.

In addition to this prestigious award, Dr. Yeh has received the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar award in 2023-2024, as well as other awards and honors in recent years such as the Campus sustainability award (2023) and the AAG-Kaufmann award for best paper for Geography and Entrepreneurship (2022). Dr. Yeh has served as the Vice President (2020-2021) and President (2021-2022) of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). We cannot wait to see what she will do next!

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