2025-09-10
- Gyudae “GD” Kim never planned on becoming a geographer. Nearly 20 years ago, he was serving his mandatory military service in South Korea when a sudden injury left him paralyzed. At the time, he wasn’t considering graduate school, let alone an academic career. He was just trying to figure out how to move forward.That turning...
2025-08-27 - How did you decide to become a geographer?I started off as an environmental science major at Wuhan University in China. During my first year, I took electives in programming and discovered how much I enjoyed it. GIS was our sister program at the time and I learned that many GIS faculty members were using programming in their work, and applying it to study critical social and...
2025-08-13 - Master's and PhD applications are due December 15th.
2025-07-23 - Geography and geographic information science professor Marynia Kolak and psychology professor Eleanor Seaton have helped raise public awareness of the Restrictive Covenant Project while also planning to study and research discriminatory covenants and related topics.Kolak will study how these covenants and...
2025-05-28 - How can AI and data science help solve some of the world’s most complex environmental and societal challenges? In this Q&A, professor of geography and geographic information science and associate dean for life and physical sciences in the College of LAS, Shaowen Wang discusses his groundbreaking work in cyberGIS, the formation of a national research...-
2025-05-09 - Shaowen Wang issues this straightforward invitation: Your perspective is needed now more than ever.He’s encouraging you to attend the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress (SRI2025) June 16-19 in Chicago. The cyberGIS and geospatial science expert also welcomes students, researchers, community leaders, and more to...
2025-04-30 - Marynia Kolak is a professor of geography and geographic information science and principal investigator for the Health Regions & Policies Lab. As a health geographer and spatial data scientist, Kolak is committed to understanding how where we live and work shapes our health outcomes—a pursuit that has...
2025-04-14 - Scientific collaboration often begins with a simple conversation, an exchange of ideas that transcends borders. For Bruce Rhoads, a professor of geography and geographic information science and river dynamics expert, and Alexander Sukhodolov, a research group leader at Germany’s Leibniz Institute Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, that first conversation came in the form of an email...
2025-04-11 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Before President Donald Trump abruptly changed course on tariffs, the 12th smallest African nation, Lesotho, was near the top of the list of countries whose products would be taxed at the U.S. border. Charles Fogelman, a professor in the Global Studies...
2025-02-12 - PhD student Gyudae "GD" Kim has received the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Excellence Award in Undergraduate Teaching for a Graduate Teaching Assistant and the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
2025-01-08 - The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has granted accreditation to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the fully-online graduate certificate and master’s degree programs in CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science. A total of 23 colleges and universities (including Illinois) offer USGIF-accredited programs and over 1,600 students...
2024-10-02 - Dr. Marynia Kolak was a co-author on a study published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Assocation (JAMA): Factors Associated With the...
2024-09-11 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The word “atlas,” may conjure images of giant books chock full of maps and a dizzying array of facts and figures. However, the new book “The World Atlas of Rivers, Estuaries, and Deltas...
2024-08-05 - Chunyuan Diao is among 15 professors within the College of LAS to receive a named scholar and professorship position for the upcoming academic year, in recognition of outstanding contributions to research and education at the University of Illinois. Diao has been named the I.C. Gunsalus Scholar, which...- 2024-06-18 - 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 is presented to early-career faculty in recognition of their scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their departments and the College of LAS. These scholars hold the...