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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...- 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...
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...- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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...
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...
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: