2023-06-29
- Congratulations to Dr. Chunyuan Diao on receiving the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Early/Mid Career Research Award, presented at the annual Symposium at Yale University in June 2023.
Dr. Diao is an outstanding early-career scholar. At UIUC, where she was hired as an assistant professor, Dr. Diao has launched a highly impactful and independent research program...
2023-06-28 - Dr. Eric Shook has been elected to a 3-year term as Director of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) during its annual symposium this month. UCGIS is a non-profit dedicated to GIS research and community engagement in higher education....
2023-05-05 - Matthew Anderson (PhD., 2012) has received the Geography & GIS Early Career Distinguished Alumnus Award. Anderson joined the Eastern Washington University faculty in 2014 and currently serves as professor and director of the department of Urban and Regional Planning. He...
2023-04-26 - Dr. Nikolai Alvarado has been awarded Campus Research Board funding to conduct field work in Costa Rica for the next year. His proposal, entitled “South-South Migrants, Social Justice, and the Shaping of Urban Democracies: Investigating Alternative Forms of Migrant Inclusion in Informal Settlements,” is being supported through UIUC's...
2023-04-12 - GGIS professor Marynia Kolak recently participated in a roundtable discussion on the importance of community engagement in data decision-making. She spoke on behalf of her US Covid Atlas project and was joined by members of the Gulf Research Program at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; the University of...- 2023-04-05 - by Dr. Marynia Kolak, assistant professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Join us on Friday, April 14th in Room 2049 NHB (or via Zoom) for presentations by 2022-23 Geography & GIS Roepke Research scholars Kei Yamato, Stefan Ilic, Amer...
2023-01-25 - PhD student Marina Moscoso Arabía (advisor: Nikolai Alvarado) was selected for the second cohort of Humanities Research Institute (HRI) Mellon Interseminars Graduate Fellows. This year's project theme is “Improvise and Intervene” - fellows and faculty conveners from the...- 2023-01-20 - 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 project.
- 2023-01-12 - 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 colleagues. From the AAG announcement: "The AAG Fellows is a recognition and service program that applauds geographers who...
2022-12-07 - 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 Wayne Koonce (BA, '71) and Dr. Michael Widener (BA, '07), an alumni Jeopardy! winner, career conversations with early-career alumni, new faculty and student profiles,...
2022-12-06 - The department gratefully acknowledges Dr. Gary (PhD, ’79) and Mary Molyneaux for establishing an endowment fund to support geography and GIS doctoral students. Molyneaux studied geography, urban planning, and landscape architecture with Professor John Jakle and went on to a distinguished career in the public and private sectors and higher education. He continues...
2022-12-06 - 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 Room. After receiving the award, Wayne shared his Illinois experience and career journey and took questions from faculty and students on topics including sustainable buildings and urban development....- 2022-11-30 - 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 other college-level award recipients at a ceremony in March.
2022-10-26 - 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 awards in the Student Paper Competition.
2022-10-26 - A team of scientists including professor Bruce Rhoads was awarded a grant from the Illinois Nutrient Research and Education Council (NREC) to quantify streambank erosion across the state and its contributions to phosphorus (P) loading of surface waters. Phosphorus (P) enrichment to streams, lakes, and estuaries is increasing throughout...