The double life: GGIS undergraduate Jess Johnson double majors with history

jess Johnson in front of some ruins.
What happens at the end of science? Philosophy?It is the kind of question that can pause a conversation. Not because science fails, and not because philosophy is waiting at the edge of the laboratory to correct it, but because every discipline, if you follow it far enough, begins to run into its...

GGIS faculty awards and honors, 2024-25

Nikolai Alvarado Nikolai Alvarado presented a paper entitled Urban Informality, Migration, and Waste: Spatio-Corporeal Cartographies of Environmental Oppression at the second annual UIC Encounter on Migration and Indigenous People last fall. He was also awarded a Humanities Research...

Roepke Research Scholar, Rachel Loftus, talks about her studies

Map of train routes in the United States.
 As a Roepke Research Scholar last fall, I helped Dr. Julie Cidell investigate railyard redevelopment in Chicago. Starting from a 1915 Chicago Association of Commerce report, I used Google Maps and basic georeferencing strategies to locate and gather modern-day imagery of railyards detailed in...

Aisling Reynolds-Feighan (PhD ’89) receives distinguished alumni award

Geoff Hewlings, Aisling Reynolds-Feighan and Bruce Rhoads.
Aisling Reynolds-Feighan graduated from University College, Dublin (UCD) with a BA in economics and geography in 1985. She earned an MA in economics the following year and then joined our PhD program in Fall 1987. As part of her doctoral research, I traveled to Houston with Aisling to interview...

Team tracks vegetation recovery from sudden permafrost collapse

Mark Lara and Zhuoxuan Xia standing in front of a digital display.
Some Arctic regions regain their “greenness” within a decade of a sudden permafrost collapse, while others can take a century or more to recover, researchers report in a new study. The difference is directly related to each site’s gross primary productivity, a measure of its photosynthetic capacity...
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