2023-11-17
- A yearlong investigation reveals the air quality in Cicero is “much worse” than in surrounding Cook County neighborhoods. The project involves sensors installed and monitored by the Cicero Independiente and MuckRock providing data to back up what many community members were already feeling.
“It’s very common in Cicero to hear complaints of people that say that the air feels weird,” said Irene...
- 2023-11-16 - It's a busy day anywhere in the world. You roll out of bed and grab your smartphone. You check a news website or a weather app or look up directions to an appointment. Most people don't think about it much, but those modern-day conveniences depend on spatial data — on maps that connect and overlay information about different aspects of the world.
- 2023-11-15 - Drs. Nikolai Alvarado, Julie Cidell, and David Wilson presented their research this fall on the U of I campus and across the globe.
2023-09-08 - Geography & GIS is pleased to announce this year's Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient: Dr. Peter Wilcock. He will visit the department in Spring 2024 to receive the award and present at Colloquium.
2023-08-30 - PhD student Gyudae "GD" Kim was granted the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Scholarship for students with spinal cord injuries at the University of Illinois. This highly selective, prestigious scholarship is designed to cover supplemental support costs throughout a 4-year projected enrollment, with the aim of facilitating...
2023-08-23 - How did you decide to become a geographer? I am a physical geographer interested in the hydrosphere and its interactions with human societies. Like many others, my academic trajectory was non-linear. The path to becoming a geographer involved years of multidisciplinary training, introspection, and exploration with a core passion for understanding diverse natural...- 2023-08-22 - Dr. Julie Cidell and PhD candidate José Acosta-Cordóva have recently been awarded a $990,000 grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency's Drivers and Environmental Impacts of Energy Transitions in Underserved Communities program. Their project, in...
2023-08-18 - The department is seeking applicants for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in Human Geography with research and teaching experience in Climate Justice and/or Environmental Justice to join a transdisciplinary cluster of new professors focused on Climate Impacts, Risk, and Inequality. This cluster will include Fall 2024 faculty hires in the following departments along with Geography...
2023-07-28 - Dr. Charles Fogelman, Teaching Assistant Professor in the LAS Global Studies Program, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad grant to spend six months conducting qualitative research in Lesotho, from June until December 2023. Dr. Fogelman's...
2023-07-26 - Shaowen Wang will step into the role of Associate Dean for Life and Physical Sciences. In his new role, Shaowen will serve as a liaison between the college and our diverse academic units in the life and physical sciences.
2023-06-29 - Congratulations to Dr. Chunyuan Diao on receiving the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Early/Mid Career Research Award, presented at the annual Symposium at Yale University in June 2023. Dr. Diao is an outstanding early-career scholar. At UIUC, where she was hired as an assistant professor, Dr. Diao has launched a highly impactful and independent research program...
2023-06-28 - Dr. Eric Shook has been elected to a 3-year term as Director of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) during its annual symposium this month. UCGIS is a non-profit dedicated to GIS research and community engagement in higher education....
2023-05-05 - 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 Regional Planning. He...
2023-04-26 - 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 Informal Settlements,” is being supported through UIUC's...
2023-04-12 - 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 Program at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; the University of...