01/25/2023 - PhD student Marina Moscoso Arabía (advisor: Nikolai Alvarado) was selected for the second cohort of Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Mellon...
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01/20/2023 - Dr. Marynia Kolak's Healthy Regions & Policies Lab was recently awarded a 2-year, $1.4 million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant for a new social determinant of health (SDOH) data discovery...
01/12/2023 - 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...
12/07/2022 - 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...
12/06/2022 - The department gratefully acknowledges Dr. Gary (PhD, ’79) and Mary Molyneaux for establishing an endowment fund to support geography and GIS doctoral students....
12/06/2022 - 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...
11/30/2022 - Geography & GIS office administrator Matt Cohn (BA, creative writing and psychology, '03) has received a College of Liberal Arts & Sciences 2022-23 Staff Award and will be honored with six...
10/26/2022 - 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...
10/26/2022 - A team of scientists including professor Bruce Rhoads was awarded a grant from the Illinois Nutrient Research and Education Council (NREC)...
10/25/2022 - By Amber Rose, Grainger College of Engineering University of Illinois researchers Leonardo Chamorro and Jim Best used clear mud in order to study the structure of turbulence in water flows...
10/19/2022 - A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will create the Taylor Geospatial Institute Regional AI Learning System. Launched in April 2022 and led by Saint Louis University, the...
09/19/2022 - A research team led by DePaul University geography faculty, in collaboration with the UIUC Department of Geography & GIS, was recently awarded a $250,000 NASA grant to collaborate with a Chicago...
09/07/2022 - Dr. Nikolai Alvarado received funding to establish the Latin American and Caribbean Cities Collective at the University of Illinois, in collaboration with...
08/08/2022 - How did you decide to become a geographer? Two early factors influenced my choice to become a geographer. First, I competed in extemporaneous speaking competitions during...
08/06/2022 - How did you decide to become a geographer? I began my undergraduate studies here at UIUC with an interest in environmental sciences but switched to geology after taking...
