2021-03-12
- Illinois Online is excited to announce a new Graduate Certificate in CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science.
This online certificate program...
2021-03-04 - Two recent Geography & GIS alumni visited the department (virtually) this past spring to share their academic and early career experiences and advice with our current undergraduate majors. Samuel James (BS, ’19; ESES and geography & GIS, 2019) began his undergraduate studies in the architecture program but transferred to the earth,society, and environmental...
2021-02-10 - 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).
2021-02-04 - His project will focus on the social, psychic, and economic impacts of a third wave gentrification on Chicago's South Side.
2021-01-27 - 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 information to help stem the transmission of COVID-19 in their communities. Such sharing includes giving public health authorities access to their geographic information via data gathered from phone...
2021-01-26 - 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.
2021-01-08 - Sister Stephanie Baliga runs a treadmill marathon to raise money for the poor and sets a Guinness World Record
2020-11-20 - The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected vulnerable communities that lack the proper healthcare resources to aid in combating the disease. A recent study published at the University of Illinois is helping policymakers better identify Illinois communities that are in need.
2020-10-28 - Junghwan Kim (advisor: Mei-Po Kwan) earned First Prize in the Race, Ethnicity, and Place 2020 Conference Student Research Presentation Competition. His doctoral dissertation paper entitled "How Neighborhood Effect Averaging Might Affect Assessment of...
2020-10-20 - Led by the Committee on Executive Leadership, the Academic Leadership Program aims to identify faculty who have demonstrated exceptional ability and administrative promise and to prepare participants for future leadership roles through a program including seminars and individual campus activities.- 2020-08-26 - Geography & Geographic Information Science is thrilled to welcome new faculty members to the department this fall! We have asked them to provide a brief self-introduction and please visit their individual profile pages linked at the bottom of this page to learn more and get in touch. Nikolai Alvarado, Assistant Professor I started as a Marine Biology major...
2020-08-20 - How did you decide to become a geographer? While getting my degree in Development Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, I took an elective during my 4th year of study called “Geography of Development” with Professor Sophie Oldfield. That class introduced me to geography’s relational approach to the political, social, economic, spatial, and...
2020-08-20 - How did you decide to become a geographer? I am a human geographer. Part of why I became one had to do unquestionably with my personal experience. I grew up in Ecuador and Costa Rica before moving to the US, thus I have always been a migrant and an outsider everywhere I lived. I also have had the opportunity (privilege?) to travel extensively in Latin America, where I...
2020-06-26 - Honoring Geoff's lifelong contributions to the discipline of regional science and to the association itself.- 2020-06-26 - A new paper by Professors Jim Best and Stephen Darby takes a big-picture approach to review the health and resiliency of the world’s large river systems.