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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