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 […]
PhD student, Amy Panikowski, has been awarded a prestigious NSEP David L. Boren Fellowship. The fellowship will allow her to participate in intensive language training at the University of Florida for isiZulu during the summer. In the fall, she will travel to South Africa and spend ten months continuing language training, completing field work and […]
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The Dunkle Award was established to honor the long time service and devotion of professor and scholar, Dr. John R. Dunkle, to the Department of Geography at the University of Florida. This award is given annually to the most distinguished undergraduate student majoring in Geography who shows sustained academic excellence, involvement in departmental activities, leadership […]
PhD student Ryan Good has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright-Hays fellowship through the Group Projects Abroad program. The fellowship will allow him to travel to Tanzania this summer for Swahili language training followed by doctoral research. The Fulbright-Hays Program supports research and training efforts overseas, which focus on non-Western foreign languages and area studies. The […]
The paper, “Spatial modeling of road network development, population pressure and biophysical properties of upland crop and forest conversions in Lop Buri province, Thailand, 1989-2006.” by former Ph.D. student Dr. Risa Patarasuk and Dr. Tim Fik was named runner up by the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography for its best paper of 2013. Risa is […]