2026-09-29 - Kaiyu Guan, the Levenick Professor of Sustainability, and affiliate professor of geography & geographic information science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Illinois alumus...
2026-09-24 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has named several accomplished faculty members to endowed chair and professorship positions. The positions are some of the highest honors that can be granted by the college. The recipients will be awarded discretionary funding to carry out research...
2026-08-27 - Researchers, city leaders, and community organizations have worked together to build one of the nation's largest urban air quality monitoring networks across Chicago. Now, a new public-facing...
2026-08-26 - Our department is excited to be hosting this year's meeting of the West Lakes Division, American Association of Geographers (AAG). This annual event will include a keynote address on Friday; and paper/poster sessions, Geography Bowl, and awards dinner Saturday.Keynote: Friday, October 16th 5:...
2026-08-04 - Master's and PhD applications are due December 15th.
2026-06-15 - Scientists have long understood that rivers and lakes influence one another, but actually observing where one system gradually transitions into the other has remained a challenge — until now.A new study led by...
2026-06-02 - New York City, NY — The American Geographical Society (AGS) announced the recipients of the 2026 AGS Council Fellowships to support master’s and doctoral research. Among the recipients is Matthew Hiett, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Masters and doctoral...
2026-05-28 - PhD student, Gyudae "GD" Kim, was recently named a Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Fellow by The Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security...
2026-05-26 - A resident installs an air-quality sensor outside their home, hoping to contribute to a growing network of citizen-collected environmental data. But before making the information public, they drag the sensor’s location pin on the digital map slightly down the street.That small act of digital self-...
2026-05-07 - The Illinois Global Institute has selected two graduate students from the Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science to receive research awards and language fellowships.Graduate Summer...
2026-04-30 - What happens at the end of science? Philosophy?It is the kind of question that can pause a conversation. Not because science fails, and not because philosophy is waiting at the edge of the laboratory to correct it, but because every discipline, if you follow it far enough, begins to run into its...
2026-03-30 - Some Arctic regions regain their “greenness” within a decade of a sudden permafrost collapse, while others can take a century or more to recover, researchers report in a new study. The difference is directly related to each site’s gross primary productivity, a measure of its photosynthetic capacity...
2026-03-23 - Jordan McAlister is a human geographer with interests in the built environment, historical geography, and historic preservation. A native of Texas, he has long taken an interest in the cultural and regional geographies of...
2026-03-11 - A new study using multidecade satellite imagery and face-to-face human interviews tracked the environmental and societal impacts of gravel mining in the Lubha River, Northeast Bangladesh. The researchers found that the river had recovered its natural shape within just four years after gravel mining...
2026-02-17 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — City development is increasingly associated with creating “smart cities” that use technology for managing city services, home construction and attracting resources. But those strategies come with negative consequences to a city’s poor residents, said...