10/11/2021 - The department was honored to welcome Professor William A.V. Clark (PhD, 1964) back to campus last week to accept his 2020-21 Distinguished Alumnus Award. Clark is...
News
09/28/2021 - Dave Evensen and National Science Foundation A new national initiative to enable geospatial data-driven scientific discovery will create a $15-million institute at the University of...
09/23/2021 - by Texas A&M University and the College of LAS at Illinois Backed by a multi-million-dollar federal grant, a research team from three major universities will soon start working on a...
08/30/2021 - Professor Chunyuan Diao has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for her project entitled “CAREER:...
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...
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
