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...
2022-10-25 - 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. You might be thinking, "mud isn’t clear!" If so, you would be wrong. Most work done by researchers...
2022-10-19 - 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 Taylor Geospatial Institute brings together eight Midwestern...
2022-09-19 - 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 community on an expanded online dashboard that uses satellite data to bring disparities in tree...
2022-09-07 - Dr. Nikolai Alvarado received funding to establish the Latin American and Caribbean Cities Collective at the University of Illinois, in collaboration with Dr. Magdalena Novoa, Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and...
2022-08-08 - 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 high school that required me to stay abreast of world politics, where topics often had a...
2022-08-06 - 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 several of their field courses. I first learned about GIS on the job as a student research...
2022-07-27 - PhD student Yilun Zhao (advisor: Dr. Chunyuan Diao) has been awarded a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship for her project "Evaluating the Influence of Biocontrol...
2022-06-28 - Geography PhD student Becky Vandewalle was selected as a Frontera Computational Sciences Fellow for the 2022-23 academic year. As a fellow, Becky will have access to the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) as she gathers and analyzes data for her dissertation.
2022-06-27 - By GGIS majors Julia Cogan, Katie Niermann, and Zimo Xiao (BS, ‘22) As members of the Epsilon chapter of the Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU) Geographical Honors Society, we had the privilege of organizing the Spring 2022 Alumni Career Conversations...
2022-06-08 - GGIS major and University Laboratory High School Library graduate Zona Hrnjak is on her first ride this summer with the Illini 4000, a cycling team that raises awareness and funds for cancer research and patient services.
2022-05-18 - Art was an innovative spatial statistician; his work with Keith Ord resulted in the development of the well-known Getis-Ord statistic.
2022-04-15 - Professor Shaowen Wang was named to the 2022 Class of American Association of Geographers (AAG) Fellows, a program launched in 2018 that recognizes geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing the...
2022-03-09 - Dr. Aída Guhlincozzi (PhD, '21) was awarded the Jacques May Thesis Prize for the Best PhD Dissertation in Health & Medical Geography from the AAG Health & Medical Geography Specialty Group at the 2022 Annual Meeting.