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Grad student Rory Cowie won the Best Student Presentation award ($300) at the National Groundwater Association Annual Groundwater Summit, Denver CO, April 2010.

Preston Cumming Receives Colorado Mountain Club Foundation Fellowship

Tim Oakes has been awarded a "Seasonal Bird" research exchange fellowship for 180,000 yuan from the Guizhou Province Ministry of Education. Tim will use the money to develop collaborative research projects with faculty and graduate students at

Geography student Shane Grigsby has won a $20,000 grant from the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Environmental Center for his project on "Topographic Mapping of the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Campus for Sustainability." Along with his faculty sponsor, Professor Babs Buttenfield, with in-kind support

Professor Ken Foote has been elected President of the Association of American Geographers for the 2010-11 academic year. Congratulations Ken!See Association of American Geographers for more information.

Julia Hicks Receives Hazel Schmoll Research Fellowship, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Herbarium. The graduate student fellowships are awarded for the study of native Colorado plants.

Grant was awarded an Advanced Language Fellowship from the American Council's Southeast European Language Training Program for Summer 2010.

Emily Yeh won the 2009 Leopold-Hidy Prize from the journal Environmental History for best journal article of the year. Emily's winning paper, "From wasteland to wetland? Nature and nation in China's Tibet," examines the social relations

Julia Hicks Receives Rocky Mountain National Park Research Grant. The National Park Service awards the grants for research in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP). Julia is studying thistles at high elevation and counting presence/absence of weevils

Preston Cumming Receives Geography's DeSana Graduate Research Scholarship