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What can we do to stem the increased use of phones and laptops to cheat on exams in class? http://chronicle.com/article/Memorization-Cheating-and/233926

Brian Magi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, was the guest on the October 22, 2015 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. As an atmospheric scientist, Magi explores the relationship between fires, climate, and air quality. His long term research goal is to simulate global fires as […]

CAGIS is pleased to announce that they are receiving a new award “Healthy Wells” from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through the NC Gaston County Department of Health and Human Services. The award for the “Health Wells” project is in total $666,665 for five years (UNCC part: $294,449). This project is designed […]

The department started a newsletter in the spring. We hope this will a biannual newsletter. Click the link to download Earth Matters – Spring 2015 Newsletter

Monarchs, long missing from his Druid Hills neighborhood, are attracted to flowers planted last month as part of the Butterfly Highway, a project launched by UNC Charlotte graduate student Angelique Hjarding. The program monitors butterflies and other natural pollinators to increase biological diversity in underserved communities. http://www.thecharlottepost.com/news/2015/05/20/local/butterflies-take-flight-with-urban-reintroduction-program/

Warren Pettee, who finished his Meteorology degree in May and will be continuing at UNC Charlotte in the Earth Sciences MS program in the Fall, received full travel funding to attend the 2015 Unidata User’s Workshop (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/events/2015UsersWorkshop/) in Boulder, Colorado, in June 2015. Warren has spear-headed many efforts at UNC Charlotte related to using and […]

Following AAG, Elizabeth Delmelle was elected as the chair of the Transportation Specialty Group, and Eric Delmelle was elected vice-chair of the Health Geography Specialty Group. Congrats to both of you.

Congratulations to Dr. Jean-Claude Thill who was just selected as a recipient of the Office of Disability Services 2014-15 Accessibility Excellence Award for Outstanding Faculty/Staff. This is a student nominated award and a tremendous honor.

Elizabeth Morrell and Coline Dony, doctoral students in the Geography and Urban Regional Analysis program, were recently honored as nominees for the 2014/2015 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Here they are pictured at the Award ceremony with Associate Dean of the Graduate School Dr. Katherine Hall-Hertel and Dr. Judith Krauss, Faculty Associate for Graduate Teaching, Center […]

On April 9th 2015 students and faculty (Drs. Sara Gage and Heather Smith) participating in the department’s inaugural offering of Geography 4600: Geography Professional Seminar hosted a distinguished panel of Alumni who spoke about how their experience and training in our graduate and undergraduate geography programs and at UNC Charlotte prepared them for current careers. […]