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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. […]
The Graduate Research Symposium (GRS) took place this Saturday April 11th. The GRS featured 48 presentations and 23 posters in categories such as Computer Science, Mathematics & Engineering Health & Social Sciences Physical & Natural Sciences Humanities & Education Posters Congratulations to Coline Dony who won the “Health and Social Sciences” category, for her paper: […]
Coline Dony is the recipient of the 2015-16 Joanna R. Baker Memorial Graduate Fellowship. The Joanna R. Baker Memorial Graduate Fellowship was established in 2000, by friends and colleagues of Dr. Baker to recognize her extraordinary vision of interdisciplinary research and application of information technology to problem solving in the public sector. The fellowship will […]
An article by Martha-Cary Eppes, Andrew Willis, Jamie Molaro, Stephen Abernathy & Beibei Zhou Click Here to read
A research paper, Immigrant Businesses, Place-Making, and Community Development: A Case from an Emerging Immigrant Gateway, written by Claire Schuch (PhD Candidate in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis) and Dr. Qingfang Wang recently published in the Journal of Cultural Geography has been profiled on the American Immigration Council’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation website. http://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/
Dr. Heather Smith will be spending the 2015-2016 Academic year in London, England serving as UNC Charlotte’s Faculty Resident Director for our student exchange program with Kingston University. For students participating in this program, its exchange nature means that “tuition and fees are payable to UNC Charlotte at regular in-state or out-of-state rates according to […]
Geography PhD students Brisa Hernandez and Claire Schuch, and Professor Heather Smith, were recently interviewed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation about the work of MAPPR (http://www.mapprnc.org/) and their nationally recognized Photovoice project which partnered local Latino Youth and UNC Charlotte Community Planning Students (led by Dr. Janni Sorensen) to conduct research on the social […]
The Charlotte area’s first winter storm of the season brought with it freezing rain, multiple days of school closings and an added stint of cold weather. Thomas Winesett, 23, is a graduate student at UNC Charlotte’s Earth Science department who focuses on meteorology and shares his forecasts via Twitter @twineset. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2015/02/20/5524968/unc-charlotte-students-discuss.html#.VOdmmcY-KJa
In a video to promote the upcoming Charlotte Weather Fest (Saturday March 21, 1-5pm), many Meteorology majors from our department put together a super-catchy dance and music video letting everyone know how excited they are about the event. The video is at YouTube http://youtu.be/NHFLTkkn6sc and was directed by Meteorology major Heleena Tapp and filmed by […]
UNC Charlotte Meterology student Ricky Matthews use social media to catch wind of weather. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2015/02/07/5496296/students-use-social-media-to-catch.html#.VNkEXMY-KJZ
UNC Charlotte Meteorology senior Ricky Matthews and Earth Sciences Masters student Thomas Winesett were featured in a CLAS Exchange story about storm chasing in North Carolina last April. Read the whole article and see some pictures at https://exchange.uncc.edu/meterorology-student-seeks-to-improve-systems-to-save-lives/
About 10 undergraduate and graduate students, as well as Professors Davenport and Magi, will be at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in Phoenix, Arizona from 3-8 January. Our Meteorology students will all be attending the AMS Student Conference and many will attend the full conference as well. Presenters include senior Warren […]
Holiday Season Kudos to the Geography and Earth Sciences Graduate Student Organization (GESGO) for their successful launch and completion of Operation Sandwich. On December 5th, students, staff and faculty of the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences gathered to make sandwiches for distribution to the Urban Ministry Center, an organization “dedicated to bringing the community […]
Carolynne Hultquist, a newly graduated Geography BS student, published her research as lead author in a high-profile international journal Remote Sensing Letters. The research was completed while Carolynne worked in Professor Gang Chen’s lab. In the study, high spectral resolution remote sensing, geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA), and machine learning were applied to assess burn […]
Christopher Godwin, a newly graduated Geography BS student, published his research as lead author in a high-profile international journal Landscape & Urban Planning. The research was completed while Chris worked in Professor Gang Chen’s lab. It synergies remote sensing LiDAR (light detection and ranging) and aerial photography to efficiently model landscape-level forest carbon storage in […]
Congratulations to PhD in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis students Claire Schuch and Brisa Urquieta-Hernandez lead authors on a research paper selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) as one of the four “most influential“ articles in 2014 in the area of identification and elimination of disparities in health care. The paper, Por Nuestros […]