Anila Narayana

Anila Narayana Awarded UROP Grant

April 12, 2021

Congratulations to CU Geography undergraduate Anila Narayana! She was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Individual Grant for the Summer 2021 term to work on the project 鈥淔ood for Thought: Examining Intersections between Urban Gardening, Mental Health, and Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic鈥 under the mentorship of Azita...

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Team Awarded CU Outreach Award

April 7, 2021

Professor Katherine Lininger was part of a team given a CU Outreach Award for the outreach proposal, 鈥淐U Restoration Ecology Experimental Learning Program鈥, by the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 Outreach Awards Committee. The effort was led by Tim Seastedt, professor emeritus of INSTAAR and EBIO, and included Professor Sharon Collinge from the...

Police cars in front of King Soopers grocery store

Mara Goldman: Op-Ed on Gun Violence in Daily Camera

April 6, 2021

Gun violence: Squarely hitting home When the regularity of gun violence in American comes to our own neighborhood, or to that of someone we know, we all say that it is getting 鈥渢oo close to home.鈥 So, when the latest 鈥渕ass shooting鈥 happened at the King Soopers food store just...

Jessica DiCarlo

Jessica DiCarlo Receives听2021 Summer Graduate School Fellowship

April 2, 2021

Jessica DiCarlo was selected as a recipient of the 2021 Summer Graduate School Fellowship. The Geography department nominated her for this Fellowship to support her dissertation writing. Her project, Steel Silk Roads and the Making of the Infrastructure Frontier is an ethnographic study on the Laos-China Railroad that examines China's...

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PhD Student Ben Barron Op-Ed: Race Is A Thread That Connects Mass Shootings

April 1, 2021

When a gunman opened fire in the Table Mesa King Soopers on Monday, March 22, prematurely ending the lives of 10 people, his bullets also ripped a wound in my homeplace. Boulder is the only home I鈥檝e ever known. I was born here. I grew up here. After moving away...

Morteza Karimzadeh

Morteza Karimzadeh awarded RIO Seed Grant

March 29, 2021

Morteza Karimzadeh Morteza Karimzadeh and Terra McKinnish were awarded the CU RIO Seed Grant for the project entitled 鈥淩ecovering from a Pandemic: Unraveling Neighborhood Geographic Disparities in Consumer and Business Behavior in 2021鈥. They will use foot-traffic data to identify business patrons鈥 residence neighborhoods and the level of recovery in...

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Summer 2021 Course Announcements

March 19, 2021

Geography course enrollment is now open for Summer 2021! Exciting Geography courses are available to you: Environmental Systems: Climate and Vegetation, Mountain Geography Introduction to Global Public Health Migration, Immigrant Adaptation, and Development GIS Mapping and GIS in the Social and Natural Sciences Review the course posters to get a...

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MeatOut Day: Heide Bruckner Interviewed on Colorado Public Radio

March 12, 2021

Steak will be on the menu in conservative strongholds across Colorado on March 20, thanks to a proclamation from the governor鈥檚 office urging just the opposite. Late last month, word started to get out that Gov. Jared Polis has proclaimed the 20th as MeatOut Day. The day, which was started...

Adriana Bailey

Geography Alum: Three degrees of inspiration

March 3, 2021

Alumni are making a difference across the globe; meet a trio of them It鈥檚 no secret that the spectacular beauty and endless recreational opportunities of the Rocky Mountains lure herds of students to the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录. But it doesn鈥檛 take long for most to recognize that 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录...

Burned Trees from the West Fork Complex Fire in 2013.

Subsequent years of beetle kill and wildfire slow regeneration of Colorado forests

Feb. 22, 2021

Conifer trees 鈥 spruce, Douglas fir, and pine trees 鈥 make up many of Colorado鈥檚 subalpine forests, essential habitats for many of the state鈥檚 birds and small mammals. These historically dense forests are also essential for sequestering and storing carbon, and hold snowpack during the winter, making them necessary in...

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