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    Dr. Matthew Anderson (PhD, 2012) Receives GGIS Early Career Distinguished Alumni Award

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  • Healthy Regions & Policies Lab Receives Grant to Support Data Discovery and Empower Community Practice

    Dr. Marynia Kolak's Healthy Regions & Policies Lab was recently awarded a 2-year, $1.4 million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant for a new social determinant of health (SDOH) data discovery project.
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    Undergraduate Spotlight: Kiara Balleza, Class of 2023

    I always wanted to have a career where I could help others and be on my feet all the time, and I would like to travel and use GIS for humanitarian efforts coinciding with global health.
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  • Matthew Anderson (PhD, 2012) Receives Early Career Distinguished Alumni Award
    Matthew Anderson (PhD., 2012) has received the Geography & GIS Early Career Distinguished Alumnus Award. Anderson joined the Eastern Washington University faculty in 2014 and currently serves as professor and director of the department of Urban and...
  • Dr. Nikolai Alvarado receives UIUC grant funds for Costa Rica migration research
    Dr. Nikolai Alvarado has been awarded Campus Research Board funding to conduct field work in Costa Rica for the next year. His proposal, entitled “South-South Migrants, Social Justice, and the Shaping of Urban Democracies: Investigating Alternative Forms of Migrant Inclusion in...
  • Prof. Kolak Participates in Data Decision-Making Roundtable
    GGIS professor Marynia Kolak recently participated in a roundtable discussion on the importance of community engagement in data decision-making. She spoke on behalf of her US Covid Atlas project and was joined by members of the Gulf Research...
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