2019-10-28
- The Fall 2019 issue of our annual alumni (print) newsletter has been published! Faculty and graduate students may find a copy in their NHB mailboxes and extra copies are available in Matt Cohn's office (2044 NHB). You can find the list of contents and read it as a PDF on our newsletters page.
2019-10-21 - PhD student Aida Guhlincozzi (advisor: Sara McLafferty) and Geology PhD student Julia Cisneros (Advisor: Jim Best) attended the University of Iowa's Latinx Educational Excellence in the Midwest Conference on October 12th. They presented “Geoscience Camp!: Methods for Introducing Geosciences to Middle School...
2019-10-14 - Prof. Jim Best published an opinion piece in Geographical, the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society: The dangerous state of the world’s large river basins
2019-10-07 - Congratulations to PhD student Lirong Kou (advisor: Prof. Mei-Po Kwan) on winning the 2019 Robert Ferber Dissertation Award! The $2,500 prize, presented by the Graduate College and the Survey Research Laboratory (SRL) recognizes excellence in research survey design. From the award letter: "The selection committee was greatly impressed...
2019-09-30 - Professor Julie Cidell traveled to Montréal on September 25-27 for the Regional Studies Association's North America Conference, where she presented her current work on transportation infrastructure titled "Not Regional Enough: The Illiana Expressway and the...
2019-09-16 - Professor Emeritus Tom Bassett presented an invited paper on cartography and colonialism in 19th century West Africa at the Frontier Forum on Cartographic History, organized by Chinese colleagues at Yunnan University. During a side trip, Tom and his wife Carol Spindel visited the spectacular irrigated rice terraces at Bada in Yuànyàng County.
2019-09-06 - Dave Evensen, LAS News Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of LAS News magazine. Mei-Po Kwan had spent years using research methods that some believed to be incompatible before she stood on a sidewalk in Humboldt Park, Illinois, arming people with daily activity diaries, sound level...
2019-09-02 - April Wendling (BS, 2019, Geography & GIS and ESES) is featured in the Fall 2019 issue of LAS News magazine. She and fellow students conducted a tree census last summer in nearby Trelease Woods.
2019-08-29 - When Aida Guhlincozzi and Julia Cisneros were younger, they each attended science camps that helped spark their interest in the geosciences. As they moved up the academic ladder, however, and each finished their undergraduate degrees at Texas A&M before coming to graduate school at Illinois, they noticed there were fewer and fewer women—especially women of color. Guhlincozzi, a PhD...
2019-08-29 - by Gavin Good, LAS News Date Sand is an important natural resource that is being critically mismanaged, according to a piece featured in Nature magazine this month by Jim Best, the Jack and Richard Threet Professor of Sedimentary Geology and professor of geography and geographic information science, and his colleagues. The article, titled ...- 2019-04-29 - Erin DeMuynck (PhD, 2014; advisor: David Wilson) received the 2019 Faculty Mentor Award at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh's Celebration of Scholarship, which honors her dedication to supervising undergraduate research and creative activities.
2019-04-29 - Fikriyah Winata (advisor: Sara McLafferty) attended this week's GeoHealth Network Conference at the University of Toronto, where she moderated an Environmental Health panel and presented her research: Community Health Center: A Place Where Poor People Can Access Health Care. Fik enjoyed the opportunity to network with Canadian...- 2019-04-22 - Lirong Kou (advisor: Mei-Po Kwan) has received a Graduate College Dissertation Research Travel Grant to support her dissertation research this summer in Chicago and Guangzhou, China. Her dissertation project is entitled: Listening to Urban Sounds: a Comparative Study between the U.S. and China on Geographic Contexts and Residents'...
- 2019-03-25 - Congratulations to PhD student Fikriyah Winata (Advisor: Sara McLafferty) who was awarded a Spring 2019 Graduate College Conference Travel Grant to attend the 2019 Geohealth Network Conference.
- 2019-03-25 - Congratulations to PhD student Junghwan Kim (advisor: Mei-Po Kwan) who was awarded a Spring 2019 Graduate College Conference Travel Grant to attend the 2020 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.