Geography & GIS assistant professors Marynia Kolak and Mark Lara are among seventeen faculty members recognized this year for contributions in research and education at Illinois. The LEAP award...

Congratulations to Professor David Wilson, who has been selected as a 2023 AAG Fellow in recognition of his distinguished scholarship, teaching, and mentoring of geography students and junior faculty...

A group of GGIS faculty and graduate students attended the West Lakes Regional Division AAG Annual Meeting at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville this past weekend and all three students won...

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...

Congratulations to several master's and doctoral students for winning prestigious awards and scholarships at the 2022 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting!

PhD student Chelsy Salas is gaining recognition for her work in our River, Watershed, and Landscape Dynamics graduate concentration with advisor Dr. Bruce Rhoads.

Shaowen Wang, a 2022 recipient of the AAG’s Distinguished Scholarship Honors, has played a leading role in the development of cyber-based geographic information science (cyberGIS) as...

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 Chunyuan Diao has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for her project entitled “CAREER:...

Congratulations to PhD student Anurag Mazumdar (advisor: Prof. Brian Jefferson) on receiving two awards to support his dissertation research travel and fieldwork...