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��Ƶ Geography is ranked 2nd in nation

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:32:22 +0000

��Ƶ Geography is ranked 2nd in nation Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 09/28/2010 - 10:32

The Geography Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder has been ranked 2nd in the country in the latest release of doctoral program rankings from the National Research Council (NRC). ��Ƶ Geography was also the top ranked doctoral program on campus in the NRC rankings. Other Geography programs ranked at this level include those at UCLA, UC-Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

See more at ��Ƶ-Boulder News Center >

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��Ƶ Boulder summary statement on NRC rankings
National Research Council doctoral program rankings
Chronicle of Higher Education's interactive analysis of NRC rankings

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Geography Receives Two Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowships

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:20:40 +0000

Geography Receives Two Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowships Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 06/21/2010 - 10:20

Andres Holz and Juan Paritsis, both of whom received ��Ƶ Geography Ph.D.s in 2009, have received prestigious Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowships of $25,000 each for 2010-11. The aim of the Chancellors Postdoctoral Fellowship program is to identify individuals who will contribute to the educational mission of the campus, and to support their professional development as future faculty members. The Fellowship program provides partial support with the remaining support coming from external research grants, in this case an NSF Award with Tom Veblen to conduct research on wildfire activity in Patagonia.

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Geography student wins $20K sustainability grant

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Geography student wins $20K sustainability grant Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 03/09/2010 - 20:05

Geography student Shane Grigsby has won a $20,000 grant from the ��Ƶ Environmental Center for his project on "Topographic Mapping of the ��Ƶ Campus for Sustainability." Along with his faculty sponsor, Professor Babs Buttenfield, with in-kind support from graduate student Chris Anderson-Tarver, Shane will investigate the use of geometric properties to extract and classify building features on the ��Ƶ campus. Measuring building heights and roof slopes, Shane will evaluate the potential solar capacity of campus buildings, resulting in a spatial assessment of the feasibility of solar development across campus.
See ��Ƶ Environmental Center for more information.

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Early Career Workshop for new faculty and advanced doctoral students, 13-19 June 2010, Boulder CO

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:38:16 +0000

Early Career Workshop for new faculty and advanced doctoral students, 13-19 June 2010, Boulder CO Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/01/2010 - 19:38

Registration has begun for the 2010 Workshop of the Geography Faculty Development Alliance (GFDA). It will be held 13-19 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Registration is available through the website of the Association of American Geographers. A minimum of 25 participants are needed to meet the costs of the workshop. If fewer are enrolled as of May 2, the workshop may be cancelled and all funds returned to participants.

This workshop is for advanced graduate students and faculty who are just beginning their careers in higher education. The one-week program focuses on topics which are frequently the source of the greatest stress in the first years of a college or university appointment, including:

Career planning
Time management
Getting the most out of meeting participation
Ethics in research and teaching
Nuts-and-bolts issues about writing and publishing
Preparing a CV, personal web site, job search and interviewing
Collegiality and service
Thinking ahead to prepare for the tenure process
Balancing personal and professional life

The workshop touches on issues of teaching and learning, particularly those revolving around designing effective courses, issues of diversity and inclusion, and active pedagogy. The goal of the workshop is to help participants balance the many responsibilities of academic life and to understand how their teaching, research, service, outreach, and personal lives intersect and interconnect.

The Geography Faculty Development Alliance is a long-term, broad-based project to improve the learning and teaching of geography in higher education. The aim is to provide early career faculty and advanced doctoral students with the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to excel in the lecture hall, seminar room, and laboratory. Key objectives of the project are to foster a culture of support and success for early career faculty, to help them understand the fundamental interconnections between their teaching and research, and to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning across the entire discipline.

This project involves several components: summer workshops, follow-up seminars, panel discussions, and paper sessions at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers and the National Council for Geographic Education. There is also a longitudinal evaluation and research component to consider the value of the training to early career faculty during the tenure review process. A final component involves publishing the workshop materials as a stand-alone course for use in graduate geography programs.

The Alliance is based in the Geography Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Its Directors are Kenneth E. Foote and J.W. Harrington, Jr.

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Michelle Stewart receives IIE Fulbright Award

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:12:14 +0000

Michelle Stewart receives IIE Fulbright Award Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/01/2009 - 10:12

Michelle Stewart receives IIE Fulbright Award: â€œAssessing the sustainability of Tibetan harvesting of rare endemic fungus Cordyceps sinensisâ€ (PI) USD $18,200

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