2020-06-25
- The CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies at U of I has teamed with the state of Illinois to produce a system of interactive maps, charts, and animations to better help understand and prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Called WhereCOVID-19, the project aims to support decision-...
2020-06-17 - Congratulations to Professor Julie Cidell on receiving the 2020 Edward L. Ullman Award from the Transportation Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. Among transport geographers, Cidell has led efforts to link transport geography with mobilities and urban studies. She co-edited the book ...
2020-05-14 - Congratulations to all of our Fall 2019, Spring 2020, and Summer 2020 graduates! Please click to download the Spring 2020 SESE Convocation Program, which includes all graduates from departments within the School of Earth, Society, and Environment: Atmospheric Sciences...
2020-04-20 - for her paper 'Debtor Spaces: Austerity, Space and Dispossession.'
2020-04-16 - We are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of our distinguished colleague and friend Professor Emeritus Ezekiel Kalipeni, who died in Malawi on Saturday, April 11th from heart-related problems less than a year after his retirement from the University of Illinois. Dr. Kalipeni joined the department in 1994 as assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 2008. He served as Interim...
2020-03-20 - The Carolyn Merry Mentoring Award was established by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) in 2015 to recognize an individual who demonstrates exceptional mentoring abilities and practices. Professor McLafferty will be honored during the UCGIS Summer 2020 Symposium. The positive reactions to her...
2020-03-11 - Sid Kenyon (BA ‘13; MUPP, ‘15, UIC) visited campus last week and had lunch with current GGIS majors. He shared how a geography degree helped prepare him for a career in the field of transportation planning. Kenyon currently works as a senior transportation planner for the County of DuPage in Illinois, where he focuses on infrastructure development and manages the county’s network of bicycle and...
2020-01-27 - PhD candidate Arrianna M. Planey has accepted a a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Health Policy and Management within the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
2020-01-27 - PhD candidate Melissa Heil (Advisor: David Wilson) has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Geography, Geology, and the Environment at Illinois State University. At ISU, Melissa will be developing a new urban studies curriculum and continue her research on urban water systems.
2020-01-27 - Dr. Julie Cidell was named a Center for Advanced Study (CAS) 2020-21 Associate. During this appointment, she will work on a new book project: an historical geography that examines the Des Plaines-Kankakee confluence in northeastern Illinois as a local space of distribution with global significance. By expanding the geographic...
2019-11-26 - David Evensen, LAS News All gardens start with a vision, but even a backyard pepper patch requires a certain level of planning and grit that thwarts most from ever becoming more than a morning coffee musing. How powerful does the vision have to be, then, to design and build a full-blown Japanese garden in east-central Illinois? For James Bier (MS, ’57, ...
2019-11-20 - Dong Liu (advisor: Mei-Po Kwan) has been selected as a finalist for the 2020 Honors Competition for Student Papers on Geographic Information Science at the 2020 AAG Annual Meeting in April, for his paper "Identification of Refueling Activities Using Space-...
2019-11-19 - The annual salute to geographic information science and technologies highlighted the broad and transformative impacts from the past year. This year celebrated the diversity of GIS applications and the capability of geospatial technologies to bring synergies in research and education across campus. The focus is on the contribution of our students to geospatial data science, geovisualization, and...
2019-11-18 - Lirong Kou (advisor: Mei-Po Kwan) and Fik Winata (advisor: Sara McLafferty) have been selected as Finalists for the 2020 Peter Gould Student Paper Award, presented by the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) of AAG. Lirong's paper: "How Individual Noise Exposure Influences Psychological Stress: A...
2019-11-11 - Congratulations to our 2019-2020 GGIS Fellows! Niyi Adeleye Julia Cogan Anthony Haloulos Benjamin Keats Sarah Lee Yuchieh Lou Samah Quadri Jackie Shon Yiheng Zou...