Imelda K. Moise (MS, ’07; PhD, ’12; MPH, UIS, ’15) is associate professor and director of Global Health Studies at the University of Miami, where she also holds secondary appointments in the Departments of Public Health Sciences and...
Alumni Profiles & News
Darla Munroe (PhD, 2000) is Professor and Chair of Geography at The Ohio State University. Her research covers economic, social, and land use geography with a focus on human-environment interactions at a landscape level. While at Illinois, she was a graduate research assistant...
When William Clark (PhD, '64, geography) arrived in Florida in 1961, en route to the University of Illinois, he struck up a conversation with an African American woman at the train station. Clark, a New Zealand native, asked the woman to join him in a restaurant, but she politely...
Dr. Janey Messina (MS, 2008) is associate professor of social science research methods at the University of Oxford (UK) School of Global and Area Studies.
Robin reflects on her wide-ranging career in geography that began with an undergraduate internship. She worked at the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant for 32 years, where she designed a Lady Quagga costume and contributed to an invasive species exhibit at the Smithsonian's Museum of National History....
Illinois native Ivan Gamboa (BA, 2002) has a passion for strengthening neighborhoods. He is Senior Vice President of Tri City National Bank in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, where he focuses on business and community development. Ivan has taken on multiple roles over his 13 years with...
Alumni News
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...
The 2021-22 Geography & GIS alumni newsletter is now available on our website. This year's issue includes campus visits from distinguished alumni award recipients Wayne Koonce (BA, '71) and Dr. Michael Widener (BA, '07), an alumni...
The department gratefully acknowledges Dr. Gary (PhD, ’79) and Mary Molyneaux for establishing an endowment fund to support geography and GIS doctoral students. Molyneaux studied geography, urban planning, and landscape architecture with Professor John Jakle and...
Wayne Koonce (BA, ’71) returned to campus on Friday, November 4th to accept his 2022 GGIS Distinguished Alumni Award, at a ceremony hosted by Department Head Prof. Shaowen Wang in the Russell Seminar Room. After receiving the award, Wayne shared his Illinois experience and career journey and took...
By GGIS majors Julia Cogan, Katie Niermann, and Zimo Xiao (BS, ‘22) As members of the Epsilon chapter of the Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU) Geographical Honors Society, we had the privilege of organizing the Spring 2022 Alumni Career Conversations...
Dr. Aída Guhlincozzi (PhD, '21) was awarded the Jacques May Thesis Prize for the Best PhD Dissertation in Health & Medical Geography from the AAG Health & Medical Geography Specialty Group at the 2022 Annual Meeting.
He consistently plucked the names of countries, Greek letters and obscure adverbs from his memory banks and came out on top in his first appearance, earning $10,500.
The department was honored to welcome Professor William A.V. Clark (PhD, 1964) back to campus last week to accept his 2020-21 Distinguished Alumnus Award. Clark is professor emeritus of geography at the University...
Congratulations to all of our Fall 2020, Spring 2021, and Summer 2021 bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree earners. Several graduates will move on to other universities as graduate students and postdoctoral researchers and others are beginning their careers in the geospatial industry....
Professor Clark is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was a 1994 Guggenheim Fellow.
Two recent Geography & GIS alumni visited the department (virtually) this past spring to share their academic and early career experiences and advice with our current undergraduate majors. Samuel James (BS, ’19; ESES and geography & GIS, 2019) began his undergraduate...
Sister Stephanie Baliga runs a treadmill marathon to raise money for the poor and sets a Guinness World Record
Congratulations to all of our Fall 2019, Spring 2020, and Summer 2020 graduates! Please click to download the Spring 2020 SESE Convocation Program, which includes all graduates from departments within the School of Earth, Society, and Environment: ...
Sid Kenyon (BA ‘13; MUPP, ‘15, UIC) visited campus last week and had lunch with current GGIS majors. He shared how a geography degree helped prepare him for a career in the field of transportation planning. Kenyon currently works as a senior transportation planner for the County of DuPage in...
David Evensen, LAS News All gardens start with a vision, but even a backyard pepper patch requires a certain level of planning and grit that thwarts most from ever becoming more than a morning coffee musing. How powerful does the vision have to be, then, to design and build a full-blown...
The Fall 2019 issue of our annual alumni (print) newsletter has been published! Faculty and graduate students may find a copy in their NHB mailboxes and extra copies are available in Matt Cohn's office (2044 NHB). You can find the list of contents and read it as a PDF on our...
April Wendling (BS, 2019, Geography & GIS and ESES) is featured in the Fall 2019 issue of LAS News magazine. She and fellow students conducted a tree census last summer in nearby Trelease...- Erin DeMuynck (PhD, 2014; advisor: David Wilson) received the 2019 Faculty Mentor Award at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh's Celebration of Scholarship, which honors her dedication to supervising undergraduate research and creative...
