2021-08-30 - Professor Chunyuan Diao has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for her project entitled “CAREER: Scalable Remote Sensing Computational Framework for Near-real-time Crop Characterization.” The...
2021-05-21 - 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 postdoctoral researchers and others are beginning their careers in the geospatial industry....
2021-04-29 - 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 grant from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s...
2021-04-28 - Congratulations to PhD student Anurag Mazumdar (advisor: Prof. Brian Jefferson) on receiving two awards to support his dissertation research travel and fieldwork! International Journal of...
2021-04-26 - Attempts at restricting people’s mobility to control the spread of COVID-19 may be effective only for a short period, researchers said. A new study examines people’s mobility for seven months during the pandemic in...
2021-03-31 - Professor Clark is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was a 1994 Guggenheim Fellow.
2021-03-12 - Illinois Online is excited to announce a new ...
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...
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...
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...