2017-12-22
- Our department was very visible at the 2016 AAG Annual Meeting in San Francisco. In addition to the many excellent panels, papers, and poster presentations by GGIS , the following GGIS faculty and graduate students received awards and recognition:
Dr. Julie Cidell was elected Treasurer of the American Association of Geographers.
Dr. Mei-Po Kwan received two awards:...
2017-11-29 - Geography & GIS hosted GIS Day 2017 in the Natural History Building's SESE Core on Thursday, November 16th. It was a great success, with over 20 student posters on display. Students also submitted dynamic web maps, available to view on the GIS Day website...
2017-10-11 - Geography & GIS PhD student Arrianna Planey has been selected as a Health Policy Research Scholar.- 2017-09-07 - Our department recently launched GEOG 392 - Geography & GIS Internship, an undergraduate course that awards academic credit to students who participate in off-campus internships. Steven Chang, a senior double-majoring in Geography & GIS and Geology, wrote the following report to share his experience as a...
2017-07-05 - The Department of Geography & GIScience is thrilled to announce that we have officially moved into the beautifully renovated Natural History Building (NHB)! We invite you to check out the building’s stunning new spaces: modern research laboratories for GIS, remote sensing, and fluvial geomorphology interactive teaching and learning spaces SESE student commons Our faculty and staff...
2017-05-26 - We are sad to report that Dr. John Thompson passed away on Sunday, February 19th at the age of 92. Thompson devoted his 33-year career at the University of Illinois to advancing the disciplines of geography and Latin American studies, and has left a lasting impact in both fields. He published widely during and after his academic career, and his book on dredging technology in Illinois is still the...
2017-03-02 - Professor Thomas Bassett is retiring after more than three decades of research, teaching, and service at the University of Illinois. On Friday, March 10th, the Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science, Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy, and the Center for African Studies...
2016-12-06 - Murugesu “Siva” Sivapalan, professor in the departments of Geography & GIScience and Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded the 2017 European Geosciences Union’s (EGU) Alfred Wegener Medal, which recognizes scientists who have achieved exceptional international standing in atmospheric, hydrological or ocean sciences. Sivapalan becomes the third hydrologist to receive the medal...- 2016-11-16 - GIS Day 2016 was a great opportunity for our Professional Science Master’s (PSM) students to showcase their work, and reflect on all of the new skills they have acquired since entering the program this fall. Te-Yao “Dale” Lee and Xu Li received awards for their submissions to the Student...
- 2016-10-26 - GIS Day 2016 will be held on Tuesday, November 15th at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign. It will feature practical GIS presentations, lightning talks focused on GIS implementation strategies, a map/poster competition, and a late afternoon career connection session for students and employers. The GIS Day keynote address will be...
2016-10-21 - Assistant Professor Piotr Cienciala’s Ecogeomorphology Ecohydraulics & Landscape Systems (EELS) lab is studying the network of beautiful mountain streams in northeastern Washington State, to aid in habitat restoration efforts of bull trout, a native fish now federally listed as endangered species.“Our goal is to better understand how landscape characteristics influence the quality of fish...
2016-04-15 - Mei-Po Kwan, professor of geography and geographic information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named a fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Kwan was one of 178 scholars, artists, and scientists selected to receive a 2016 Guggenheim fellowship. Guggenheim Fellows are chosen from about 3,000 highly...- 2016-03-18 - In Fall 2016, Assistant Professor Brian Jordan Jefferson will offer a new Geography & GIScience course: GEOG 484 – Cities, Crime, and Space. Dr. Jefferson researches urban policing to explore how the criminal justice system affects people and neighborhoods in US cities, with a focus on New York City and...
2016-03-01 - Dr. Alexander Sukhodolov and his research team are working on a project titled “Transport and Mixing at River Confluences”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). This work aims to improve our knowledge of mixing and transport of substances at and immediately downstream of river confluences and to provide insight into...
2016-02-09 - The Eastern Illinois Foodbank (EIF) has been distributing food to those in need for over 30 years, a mission that requires great organization, many devoted volunteers, and an excellent sense of Illinois geography. In July 2015, the Foodbank expanded its service area to include DeWitt, Livingston, and McLean counties, representing an increase of about 6,000 square miles, in which almost 30,000...