05/21/2021 - 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...
News
04/29/2021 - by Kimberly Belser, College of LAS News Two Geography & GIS professors have received a $500,000 grant to bring more “big data” to the complicated process of crop yield forecasting. The...
04/28/2021 - Congratulations to PhD student Anurag Mazumdar (advisor: Prof. Brian Jefferson) on receiving two awards to support his dissertation research travel and fieldwork...
04/26/2021 - Attempts at restricting people’s mobility to control the spread of COVID-19 may be effective only for a short period, researchers said....
03/31/2021 - Professor Clark is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was a 1994 Guggenheim Fellow.
03/12/2021 - Illinois Online is...
02/10/2021 - Professor Chunyuan Diao has received the 2020 Early Career Scholars in Remote Sensing Award from the Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG), American Association of Geographers (AAG).
02/04/2021 - His project will focus on the social, psychic, and economic impacts of a third wave gentrification on Chicago's South Side.
01/27/2021 - A new study by PhD candidate Junghwan Kim and adjunct professor Mei-Po Kwan finds that culture, civic-mindedness and privacy concerns influence how willing people are to share personal location...
01/26/2021 - Satellite imagery of Earth has been available for years, but it keeps getting better and better. Illinois researchers can now have access to free high-res satellite data collected by Planet Labs.
01/08/2021 - Sister Stephanie Baliga runs a treadmill marathon to raise money for the poor and sets a Guinness World Record
11/20/2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected vulnerable communities that lack the proper healthcare resources to aid in combating the disease. A recent study published at the University of Illinois is...
10/28/2020 - Junghwan Kim (advisor: Mei-Po Kwan) earned First Prize in the ...
10/20/2020 - Led by the Committee on Executive Leadership, the Academic Leadership Program aims to identify faculty who have demonstrated exceptional ability and administrative promise and to prepare participants...
08/26/2020 - Geography & Geographic Information Science is thrilled to welcome five new faculty members to the department this fall! We have asked them to provide a brief self-introduction and please visit...
