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Anya Byers, first-year Geography PhD student, won the US-IALE travel award. This nationally competitive $500 scholarship will allow Anya to present her research “Analyzing emerging infectious forest disease as a coupled human and natural system” at the 2013 U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology in Austin, Texas.

Congratulations to Paul McDaniel (PhD Geography and Urban Regional Analysis, May 2013) who has accepted a research fellowship position with the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) at the American Immigration Council in Washington, DC. The fellowship focuses on the intersections among immigration, entrepreneurship, urban/suburban revitalization, and community building. Additionally, Paul contributes to other aspects of IPC’s […]

Dr. Thomas Ludden, GIS Research Associate with UNC Charlotte’s Metropolitan Studies and Extended Academic Programs (MSEAP) has accepted a position as Senior Market Planning Analyst with the Real Estate Strategy & Portfolio unit of Starbucks in Seattle. Over the past 13 years, Tom has been leading the GIS and spatial analytical modeling efforts for MSEAP’s […]

Geography PhD student, Whalen Dillon, received great news this week! His first dissertation chapter “Range-wide threats to a foundation tree species from disturbance interactions” was accepted for publication in the botanical science journal Madroño. Whalen’s geographical research was requested to be part of a special issue “Tanoak History, Values, and Ecology” organized by public policy […]

Paul McDaniel successfully defended his dissertation for the PhD in Geography on January 30. Dr. Heather Smith is his advisor

Several members of the department will be attending and presenting at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting from Jan 5-10 in Austin, TX. The AMS meeting attracts over 6000 representatives of the atmospheric sciences community. Undergraduate meteorology majors Brandy Stimac, Reid Strickler, Philip Ware, Gonzalo Agudelo, Daniel Cunningham, David Goldmintz, and Albert Washington will be […]

Kory Jeter, a URBS minor who will study at East China Normal University in spring 2013 has been awarded a Gilman Scholarship of $4,500.00. You can learn more about the Gilman scholarship at http://www.iie.org/en/Programs/Gilman-Scholarship-Program. We are very pleased Kory has won this award and that he will represent the UNC Charlotte and the College of […]

Whalen Dillon (Geography PhD student) won the John Fraser Hart PhD Paper Competition at the 2012 annual SEDAAG conference. Whalen’s written paper and presentation was entitled “RANGE-WIDE RISKS TO A FOUNDATION TREE SPECIES FROM DISTURBANCE INTERACTIONS”. This is the fourth year in a row that UNC Charlotte has won this prestigious $1000 award in honor […]

Kunwar Singh (Geography PhD student) won the PhD Poster Competition ($500 prize) for his research entitled “DETECTING AND MAPPING SUB-CANOPY INVASIVE PLANTS IN URBAN FORESTS USING LIDAR-DERIVED METRICS”.

Dr. Jean-Claude Thill was awarded the Hirotada Kohno Award of the Regional Science Association International (http://www.regionalscience.org/Competitions-and-Awards/The-Hirotada-Kohn…). Professor Thill currently serves as the vice president for RSAI and will begin his term of president of the organization next year. From the RSAI webpage: “The Award honours and thanks a member of the RSAI who has provided […]