News
- The American Council of Learned Societies' New Faculty Fellows program allows recent doctorates in the humanities to take up two-year positions at universities and colleges across the United States where their particular research and teaching
- Tim Oakes will serve a four-year appointment as Director of the Center for Asian Studies beginning July, 2012. CAS was founded in 1998, and brings together faculty, students, and community members to encourage and support scholarship about Asia
- She will use this award to support her dissertation research on sacred landscapes and global discourses in Khumbu, Nepal.
- With great sadness, the Department of Geography announces that doctoral student Jennifer Sarah Dinaburg passed away on April 26, 2012 at the age of 31, after living for the past year and a half with the effects of adrenal cortical cancer. Jenn was
- Gilbert F. White Doctoral Fellowships in Geography have been awarded to Meredith Gartner and Travis Klingberg.
- Adam Kolff Memorial Research Fellowships have been awarded to Claudio Alvarez, Chris Jochem, and Alana Wilson
- Galen is the recipient of the Department of Geography Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award - TA.
- Preston was awarded the Department of Geography Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award - GPTI.
- James A. and Jeanne B. DeSana Graduate Research Scholarships have been awarded to Lauren Gifford, Kathryn Hamm, and Caitlin Ryan.
- Preston received the Top TA/GPTI award for 2012 from the United Government of Graduate Students.