Geography

PhD student Dawn Nekorchuk was accepted with scholarship into the 2014 Network Modeling for Epidemics workshop at the University of Washington. The workshop will be offered June 16-21 on the Seattle campus of UW. The hands-on course will cover classical descriptive network analysis and the new statistical methods of Exponential family Random Graph Models (ERGMs). […]

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At the close of the 2014 meeting of the Association of American Geographers, PhD Student Ryan Good completed his term as Student Director of the Africa Specialty Group (ASG). Ryan served a three year term after being elected to the ASG’s executive board in 2011. The ASG’s mission is to enhance geographic research and scholarship […]

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Dr. Wu will address drinking water challenges in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh. The community-based childhood diarrhea data, tubewell information, arsenic concentrations in groundwater and climate data are collected and integrated in a geographic information system (GIS) database. The spatial relationship between childhood diarrhea and tubewell water access, groundwater arsenic levels, as well as […]

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The Department of Geography will award two Graduate Student Fellowships to PhD applicants who are admitted to the Fall 2014 term. These awards will cover four years of full tuition, stipend, and health insurance. Other funding will also be available. To qualify, be sure to submit all application materials by the January 31, 2014 deadline. […]

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Joel Hartter has been appointed Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder beginning in spring 2014. At CU, Joel will continue his work focusing on human-environment interactions, primarily in the American West and Sub-Saharan Africa where he directs two ongoing projects funded by the USDA and NSF. Joel has also […]

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Working with partners from Italy, Kazakhstan, and the US (Louisiana State University), Drs. Jocelyn Mullins and Jason Blackburn developed ecological niche models of Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, to predict the geographic distribution of the disease across the landscape of each country. The work was published in PLOS ONE (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0072451). Previous studies have […]

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Recently Professor Eric Keys was interviewed by the prestigious British newspaper, The Guardian, for his opinion as to how world markets could best help the poor. Eric’s suggestions were among 18 derived from a panel of experts. Eric notes: Information is key to M4P: Where I work in southeastern Mexico, the biggest impediment to agricultural […]

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