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  • The Geography Department is pleased to announce that Kaitlin Fertaly and Aaron Malone have received the 2017-2018 Gilbert F. White Doctoral Award. This award provides support for one semester to a graduate student who is nearing completion of the
  • Emily Yeh in foreground with Tibetan landscape and prayer flags on the ground behind her.
    Emily at Chaktsalgang, the first of four major prostration sites along the circumambulation route of Mount Kailash, Tibet, July 2016 In these unsettling times, geographical inquiry is more important than ever. Yet, in the United
  • Galen in Mustang, sitting above the upper valley and agricultural region of Nyechung, Mustang District. The northern reaches of the Annapurna-Dhaulagiri Himalaya mountains can be seen behind him.
    Galen packs his backpack in Langtang at the check-post of Langtang National Park in Rasuwa District (Nepal).In August 2017, I will join the Department of Integrated Science and Technology (ISAT) at James Madison University (JMU)
  • Congratulations to Gabriella Subia Smith! The Latin American Studies Center (LASC) has awarded Gabriella a grant in Tinker Foundation Funds in support of her research. Donna Goldestein, Director of the Latin American Studies Center wrote, "The Board
  • Congratulations to Kevin Mason! The Latin American Studies Center (LASC) has awarded Kevin a grant in Tinker Foundation Funds in support of his research. Donna Goldestein, Director of the Latin American Studies Center wrote, "The Board felt your
  • Book cover with graffiti that says "Yankee Go Home"
    The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other America-Afghan Entanglements: Intimate Development, Geopolitics and the Currency of Gender and Grief, published by University of Georgia Press in January 2017. The idea for writing this
  • Hamid photo portrait
    Hamid ZoragheinFirst, a little about myself and how I ended up in Boulder, Colorado. I am from Tehran, Iran. Like in the U.S., students typically start college at age 18. However, in my country, a student’s field of study is
  • "In these unsettling times, geographical inquiry is more important than ever" - Emily Yeh.The Department has published the Spring 2017 newsletter featuring Project Fire, the research of Hamid Zoraghein, Galen Murton, and Jennifer Fluri’s
  • "Encompassing South American wildfires, Arctic sea-ice retreat, post-Soviet politics, climate change in Tibet and GIS, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder geographers keep their fingers on the pulse of a changing world"A new article titled "This is not your junior-high
  • Aerial view of forest fire in Alberta Canada
    As part of a NASA grant awarded to Dr. Jennifer Balch and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Idaho to study climate and  land use drivers of invasive-grass fueled fires across the western U.S., Jennifer
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