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.
2019-03-04 - Professor Julie Cidell has received a seed grant from iSEE, the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment. Part of iSEE's Campus as a Living Laboratory program, the project will look at how domestic and international students learn to be independently mobile on and around campus, contributing to campus initiatives on reducing carbon...
2019-02-25 - Dr. Chunyuan Diao has recently received an NSF grant as the Principal Investigator of the project titled “Real-time Computational Modeling of Crop Phenological Progress towards Scalable Satellite Precision Farming”.
2019-02-05 - The departments of Geography & GIS and Computer Science are thrilled to announce CS+Geography & GIS, a new interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science Degree offered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (...
2019-02-04 - Shakil Bin Kashem was interviewed by WNIJ (an NPR member station in Northern Illinois) to talk about the intersections of extreme cold and social vulnerability:
2019-01-28 - Congratulations to Arrianna Planey (advisor: Prof. Sara McLafferty) on the publication of Chapter 1 of her dissertation: Planey, A. (2019). Hearing Healthcare Availability and Access in the United States: A Multi-Scale Spatial and Political Economic Analysis. Social Science and Medicine. 222. 216-224. DOI:...
2018-11-26 - Prof. Shaowen Wang gave a keynote speech at the inaugural United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) held in Deqing, Zhejiang Province, China from 19 - 21 November 2018. He also promoted GGIS academic and research programs at the booth of Zhejiang University that is the partner of our 3+2 program.
2018-11-05 - By Professor Emeritus Tom Bassett On July 26, 2018, Chancellor Robert Jones of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign made Native land history a campus-wide topic. His office issued a Land Acknowledgement Statement, which formally recognizes Native Americans as the historical custodians of the land on...
2018-10-04 - From Mountains to the Sea: Watershed Science and Management in the Coastal Pacific Northwest, our department’s first field course in many years, provided students with a unique opportunity to explore stunning geomorphological landscapes, learn state-of-the-art field techniques, and consider the applications of these techniques to hazard assessment, landscape management, and...