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Sarah Haas (Geography Ph.D. student) has been selected as the recipient of the 2012-13 Lucile and Edward Giles Dissertation-Year Fellowship at UNC Charlotte. This $21,000 award was established by Lucille Giles to allow students to focus full-time on the completion and writing of their dissertation, and to support travel associated with their research. Sarah’s dissertation […]

The work of two of our graduate students was selected for presentation at the GIScience 2012 conference in Columbus, OH. All submissions went through a rigorous peer review process. The presentations were “SASEIC: A GKB-Supported Space-Aware Search Engine in Chinese,” Min Chen, Yi Zhang and Xingguang Wang and “A Comprehensive Framework for Spatial Association Rule […]

Congratulations to Meteorology majors Daniel Cunningham and Albert Washington! They each were awarded Student Assistantships by the American Meteorological Society (details of the award at http://annual.ametsoc.org/2013/index.cfm/information-for/students/student-assistant-program/). The award provides a full week of room and board for Daniel and Albert during the AMS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas in January 2013 (http://annual.ametsoc.org/2013/). Their responsibility will […]

Several of the department’s graduate students recently attended the 2012 Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Elizabeth Shockey; Claire Schuch; Paul McDaniel; Sara Gleave and Brisa Hernandez, current Ph.D. students in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis, were joined by PPOL Ph.D. student Silva Mathema and M.A. Geography graduate Ronnie Schumann as […]