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 […]
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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Dr. Jason K. Blackburn, director of the Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Lab, and Assistant Professor of Geography and a team of scientists have published a new paper in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases on the confirmation of anthrax infection in bison from testing the remains of wolf kills in southwestern Montana. Dr. Blackburn has […]
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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The report, “Age-Friendly Communities: Are We Expecting Too Much?” was prepared in early February (2014) for the Institute for Research for Public Policy, a Montreal think tank. It is available in .pdf format at: www.irpp.org/en/research/faces-of-aging/age-friendly/
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During the week of February 2, Dr. Matyas travelled to Atlanta, GA for the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. She spoke with current AAG president and fellow climatologist Dr. Julie Winkler inside the exhibition hall at the AAG booth (pictured above). Accompanying Dr. Matyas were five PhD students and three undergraduate students […]
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