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Those of us who knew Al Stuart are saddened by his passing on Nov. 1. Dr. Alfred Stuart, professor emeritus of geography and earth sciences, had a long and distinguished career at UNC Charlotte. I had the good fortune to work with him for more than 40 years, and I believe we should take a […]
GSA field trip to Great Falls on Halloween 2015. Halloween trip so Dr. Eppes is dressed as a Stream Pirate
Longtime UNC Charlotte colleague and Professor Emeritus Alfred (Al) Wright Stuart passed away on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 after a brief illness. He was a retired member of the faculty of the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences. Stuart was a native of Roanoke, Virginia who was instrumental in shaping and leading the Department of […]
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. […]
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 […]