Grad-Awards

Millie Spencer awarded Fulbright Fellowship 2024-2025

Anonymous — Tue, 07 May 2024 16:48:56 +0000

Millie Spencer awarded Fulbright Fellowship 2024-2025 Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 05/07/2024 - 10:48

Millie Spencer has been awarded the 2024-2025 Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship.

She is currently doing field work in Concepción, Chile, analyzing glacier retreat and its impacts on downstream communities in south-central Chile.

The Chile Fulbright Science Initiative will enable her to expand her existing research in Chile further south to the region of Araucanía, where she plans to work with Mapuche-Pehuenche communities to document oral histories of glacier retreat and hydrological change, and illuminate how water insecurity disproportionately impacts Indigenous peoples.

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Fedor Popov Receives TA Award

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:51:40 +0000

Fedor Popov Receives TA Award Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 04/20/2024 - 11:51

Fedor Popov was named the outstanding Geography Excellence in Graduate Teaching - Teaching Assistant in 2023-2024

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Sarah Posner Receives TA Award

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:35:19 +0000

Sarah Posner Receives TA Award Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 04/20/2024 - 11:35

Sarah Posner was named the outstanding Geography Excellence in Graduate Teaching - Teaching Assistant in 2023-2024

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Phurwa Gurung Awarded National Geographic Society Grant

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 23:03:06 +0000

Phurwa Gurung Awarded National Geographic Society Grant Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/17/2023 - 17:03

Doctoral candidate Phurwa Gurung was awarded a National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration grant to work together with local Dolpopa scholars to document endangered oral literature in Dolpo, northwest Nepal.

National Geographic funds a global community of Explorers who investigate, test hypotheses, innovate, stretch their creativity, and push the boundaries of traditional thinking in ways that fundamentally change our world. They support and cultivate a portfolio of diverse, Explorer-led programs within their five focus areas to drive impact and fulfill their mission of illuminating and protecting our world. They leverage their global expertise, platforms, and unparalleled convening power to inspire educators, youth, and future Explorers and help more people learn about, care for, and protect our world. Their innovative business model allows them to invest every philanthropic dollar—100% of donations—directly to their Explorers and programs.

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Phurwa Gurung Awarded Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:32:41 +0000

Phurwa Gurung Awarded Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/11/2023 - 09:32

Phurwa Gurung was awarded a Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for his dissertation project, “Reordering highland territories: State-building, indigeneity and multispecies worldmaking in the Himalaya.” It will support his ongoing field research in Dolpo, Nepal, which uses caterpillar fungus (yartsa gunbu) as a lens onto state building processes, indigenous territoriality, the political ecology of conservation, and non-human agency.”

He got the announcement of the award at the end of September.

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Christopher Picard wins geospatial intelligence scholarship

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 04:17:02 +0000

Christopher Picard wins geospatial intelligence scholarship Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 09/15/2023 - 22:17

Christopher Picard of ��Ƶ Boulder is one of 21 students nationwide to win support from United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation

Christopher Picard, a graduate student in geography at the University of Colorado Boulder, is one of 21 students nationwide to win scholarships this year from the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), the foundation announced recently.

The USGIF’s 2023 scholarship awardees, who are studying geospatial intelligence and related fields, will receive a total of $125,000, raised from donations.

Ronda Schrenk, USGIF CEO, expressed her gratitude for the funding: “The support our community has shown for the scholarship program this year has been truly inspiring for us at the Foundation. We extend our heartfelt thanks to all the organizational and individual donors who have enabled USGIF to maintain and expand this crucial program.”

Picard, who is pursuing a master's degree in geography from ��Ƶ Boulder, is a recent graduate of Dartmouth College, where he received a BA in environmental Earth sciences.

While an undergraduate, Picard had an internship at the U.S. National Ice Center, where he was introduced to remote sensing of the cryosphere and learned about the importance of geospatial research to national security.

That experience led Picard to apply remote sensing and other computational techniques to the study of current and future changes in Earth's high-latitude regions.

Picard said he was honored to win a 2023 graduate scholarship. “I want to thank the USGIF for supporting young geospatial researchers, as this financial assistance and connection to a broader community is massively impactful for students entering the field,” he said, adding:

“Financially, this scholarship is significant to me because it will provide important funding that will help support me during my graduate studies. In addition to financial assistance, I am looking forward to engaging with this new community in graduate school and during my career.”

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Rupak Shrestha's dissertation shortlisted for ICAS prize

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 04:02:06 +0000

Rupak Shrestha's dissertation shortlisted for ICAS prize Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 09/15/2023 - 22:02

Rupak Shrestha's dissertation, The Border Came Between Us: Securing Development, Surveillance and Securitization, and Refugee Memory and Placemaking in Nepal, has been shortlisted for an ICAS prize.

The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is a global space in which Asia scholars and social and cultural actors from all over the world can engage in dialogues on Asia that transcend boundaries between academic disciplines and geographic regions.

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Kylen Solvik Awarded Fellowship from NASA

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 23:41:35 +0000

Kylen Solvik Awarded Fellowship from NASA Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/08/2023 - 17:41

NASA Future Investigators in Nasa Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST).

I recently received a fellowship from NASA that will fund the rest of my PhD in Geography. My project is titled: "Mapping and Analyzing the Distribution and Drivers of Small Agricultural Reservoirs in Brazil".

It's a fellowship which funds graduate students for 1-3 years. It will fund the last 2 years of my PhD studying the drivers and distribution of small agricultural dams in Brazil. There are hundreds of thousands of these small reservoirs (< 1km in length) used for agriculture. I'm using NASA/USGS Landsat satellite data with AI computer vision methods to map the reservoirs over Brazil and distinguish them from natural water bodies. I'll also model how their distribution has changed over time in relation to changing patterns of agricultural land-use. Finally, I'm conducting qualitative interviews with farmers and ranchers in the Araguaia River Basin about water use and management, particularly in response to climate change. Due to climate change, the rainy season that Brazil's agriculture relies on is becoming shorter and less reliable, which will likely drive farmers to rely more on reservoirs to store and access water. The potential impacts of this shift are not well understood. Overall, the goal is to better understand the past, present, and future impacts of agriculture on surface water in Brazil.

More info from NASA >>

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Xiaoling Chen Awarded the Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 19:22:32 +0000

Xiaoling Chen Awarded the Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/17/2023 - 13:22

Mobile Vaccination Bus (photo taken by Xiaoling Chen in 2021)

Xiaoling Chen, PhD candidate in Geography, was awarded a Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the academic year 2023-2024. This fellowship is intended to provide outstanding PhD candidates with financial support to assist in the process of completing their doctoral dissertations. Xiaoling’s dissertation, tentatively entitled “For the People’s Health”: Governing Public Health, Contesting Spaces, and Recasting Expertise During the Covid-19 Containment, examines health politics, digital surveillance, and civic engagement in China. With the support of the Geography Gilbert White Fellowship in Spring 2023, Xiaoling published two papers on digital surveillance for contact tracing, the Time-Space Companions and the Venue Code, in response to Covid-19 outbreaks. These two papers will comprise parts of her dissertation.

Xiaoling is also active in organizing academic exchange. In Spring 2023, Xiaoling organized two panels with the support of four travel grants: Mabel Duncan Award and Janes A and Jeanne B DeSana Graduate Travel Award from the Department of Geography, the Eaton Graduate Student Research Award from the Center for Humanities & the Arts, and the travel grant from the Graduate and Professional Student Government. She organized and chaired a roundtable panel entitled “Civic Engagement: Public Health Responses, Material and Digital Spaces, and Politics During the Covid-19 Pandemic in China” for the 2023 Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies (AAS), with the participation of both senior and emerging China scholars. She also organized a presentation panel titled “Conceiving Social Media as Spaces” for the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Geographers conducting research in China, Ghana, Iran, and the United States presented their papers. These two panels provided insights to improve Xiaoling’s manuscript about civic engagement on Chinese social media platforms (currently under peer review).

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David Fernando Bachrach Awarded FLAS Summer Fellowship

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:50:34 +0000

David Fernando Bachrach Awarded FLAS Summer Fellowship Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 04/27/2023 - 10:50

David Fernando Bachrach is a PhD candidate in the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Geography. He will be attending an intensive Indonesian language course for 8 weeks over the summer at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia's (UPI) Language Center in Bandung. This opportunity to study at UPI's Language Center will help David to achieve his research goals for his dissertation, which includes long-term qualitative research on the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway in Indonesia

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