Recent doctoral graduate Erin Bunting has just taken up a position with the USGS in collaboration with the National Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management. She will be using her skills as a remote sensing ecologist to develop a drought vulnerability assessment for the National Parks of the southwest; a study area that covers […]
Dr. Greg Glass has joined the Geography Department in a joint position with the Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI), as a full Professor. Dr. Glass joins us form Johns Hopkins University. His research addresses the maintenance and transmision dynamics of infectious agents, especially zoonotic agents. His work includes both laboratory and field research of animal reservoir […]
Dr. Bob Walker has joined the Department in a joint position with the Center for Latin American Studies, and was previously a Professor at Michigan State University. Dr. Walker is a Human Geographer, with a PhD in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania, which places him on the quantitative side of the field, with […]
Dr. Simmons has joined the department as an Associate Professor and was previously at Michigan State University. Dr. Simmons is a human geographer whose research program addresses the interaction of economic development and environmental policy in Less Developed Countries (LDCs). She is especially interested in the social consequences of these interactions, and much of her […]
Gloria Tsai (Ph.D. 2012) will be taking up a post-doctoral position at the Center for Environmental Restoration and Disaster Reduction (CERDR) at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan on January 1st, 2015. The mission of CERDR is to integrate resources from different research groups at National Chung Hsing University, to foster relationship between NCHU and nearby […]
On September 8 Andy Noss began to serve as coordinator for the Master of Sustainable Development Practice (MDP) program, which is run jointly by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for African Studies at UF. email: anoss@ufl.edu Office: 470 Grinter Hall Tel: 352-392-3293 MDP website: http://mdp.africa.ufl.edu/ MDP blog: http://mdpprogram.wordpress.com/ MDP facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MDP.Program […]
Dr. Natalia Hoyos (Ph.D., 2004) has just been appointed to the Faculty of the Department of History and Social Sciences at Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. Natalia is getting back into academia after she and her husband Jaime (Ph.D., Geology, 2005) had two children and spent time at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute on Barra […]
Cori Matyas has been named the Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor for the academic year 2014-2015. This is a signal honor for our superb faculty members. As the introduction on the CLAS web site states: “Since 1995, CLAS Term Professorships have been awarded to outstanding faculty who excel in both scholarship […]
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Bethany Laufer is now working as a Meteorological Content Producer at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia. She will be producing for a live show featuring on-air meteorologists such as Stephanie Abrams who also received her Bachelor’s Degree in Geography from UF. Bethany received her BA in Geography along with the Certificate in Meteorology and […]
Several PhD students ended the spring semester by obtaining notable grants and fellowships from outside the department. Tim Fullman was awarded a prestigious Dissertation Award from the UF Graduate School to support the completion of his dissertation. Amy Panikowski has been awarded a NSEP David L. Boren Fellowship. The fellowship will allow her to participate […]