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Health Geographies of the Overlooked: Race, Data, and Disability

Oct. 29, 2024

Dr. Aída Guhlincozzi Assistant Professor of Geography University of Missouri Abstract: This presentation covers the recent work in health geography focused on vulnerable populations by Dr. Aída Guhlincozzi and colleagues. Specifically, this will cover the ongoing movement of the field in a direction of better encapsulating the needs of communities...

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Before You Are Here, and other critical cartographic interventions

Oct. 21, 2024

Dr. Clancy Wilcott Assistant Professor University of California, Berkeley Abstract: This talk discusses a series of critical cartographic interventions undertaken in collaboration between local Indigenous, activist and community groups, and studio.geo?, a cartographic research and teaching studio based at UC Berkeley. It centers on Before You Are Here , one...

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Geography's Social Media Reel Competition

Oct. 15, 2024

In preparation for November's Geography Awareness Month, the Department of Geography is hosting its first ever Social Media Reel Competition! Reels with the most likes will win a $100 gift card. To Enter: Record a 90 second or less reel/video about CU Geography. Make sure to use portrait mode. Upload...

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Indigenous geographies, law, and the Piikani Water rights case

Oct. 14, 2024

Dr. Michael Fabris Blackfoot Scholar Assistant Professor University of British Columbia Abstract: In this presentation, I analyze the Piikani Nation’s attempts to halt the construction of the Oldman River Dam, as this struggle highlights the challenges Indigenous communities can face in attempting to assert our own forms of jurisdiction within...

Hayes Hart Thompson

Hayes Hart-Thompson received a PACES Tier 2 Grant

Oct. 7, 2024

Hayes Hart-Thompson received the CU Boulder Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) Tier 2 Grant, for their proposal titled, Geo-Justice: Human-Centered Design for K-12 Geography Design-a-thon.

Sara Fleming

Sara Fleming received a PACES Tier 2 Grant

Oct. 7, 2024

Sara Fleming received the CU Boulder Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) Tier 2 Grant. The proposal is titled, Colorado Mobile Home Park Preservation & Community Ownership Website.

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Kate Carlson has been awarded the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium’s Emerging Professional Award for 2024

Oct. 4, 2024

Kate Carlson has been awarded the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium’s Emerging Professional Award in 2024, for accomplishments while at the State of Minnesota (MNIT DNR). The award is given by her peers in the Minnesota geospatial community. The Emerging Professional Award is meant to recognize individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary application(s)...

Jack D Ives

In Memorium, Jack D. Ives

Oct. 2, 2024

Jack D. Ives passed away on September 15, 2024. He was a Canadian montologist, an honorary adjunct research professor of geography and environmental studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, an author, and a prominent advocate of mountain issues at the global level. From 1967 to 1979 Ives served...

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John O'Loughlin awarded NSF grant for the study on the relationship between climate change and support for violence in Kenya

Sept. 18, 2024

Professors John O’Loughlin (Professor of Geography and Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Science), Terry McCabe (Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Science and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology) and Andrew Linke (Associate Professor of Geography at University of Utah and former PhD student in Geography) have been awarded $804,990 from the National Science Foundation...

Roll-call of the dead: a tribute to some of the casualties of the 30-month conflict in Ukraine. AP Photo/Tony Hicks

John O'Loughlin: Growing number of war-weary Ukrainians would reluctantly give up territory to save lives, suggests recent survey

Sept. 18, 2024

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