UF Geography graduate student Audrey Smith recognized as Graduate Honorable Mention Award for her poster presentation “Maternal and child health in a changing climate: A spatio-temporal analysis of NDVI and under-five stunting in Zambia” at the Women and Gender in Development Conference 2019: Out of the Theory & Into the Field, hosted by Virginia Tech […]
Second-year PhD student Stephanie Mundis of the Quantitative Disease Ecology & Conservation Lab, advised by Dr. Sadie Ryan, was recognized for her paper and presentation at the 2018 SouthEastern Division of the American Association of Geographers. Her presentation, “Spatial analysis of pyrethroid resistance genotypes in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Florida,” focused on spatial patterns in […]
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Congratulations to Mr. Charles Wu, who has been awarded a CLAS Dissertation Fellowship in the amount of $7,000, to be used in the Spring 2019 term.
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PhD student Ryan Good has just been awarded the 2017 Graduate Assistant Teaching Award! Congratulations, Ryan!
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Congratulations to Hannah Herrero, recipient of the 2017 University Women’s Club Graduate Scholarship! Established in 1922 by President Murphree for women faculty, staff and spouses, the University Women’s Club seeks to offer social and service opportunities to its members. Today any woman interested in the University of Florida is invited to join us. Over the years […]
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Congratulations to UF‘s Dr. Ian Kracalik for winning the 2017 Peter Gould Graduate Student Paper Competition at the American Association of Geographers 2017 meeting! Go Gators!
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GAINESVILLE, FL – Geography Ph.D. student Stephanie Zick was awarded one of three $1000 scholarships for best poster at the 5th UF Water Institute Symposium, held on February 16-17, 2016, in Gainesville, FL. In her poster, she quantified the precipitation geometry in tropical cyclones and found significantly different precipitation evolution in storms that make landfall […]
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Stephanie Zick has been selected as a Society of Woman Geographers (SWG) Pruitt Dissertation Fellowship awardee for 2015-2016. As a PhD candidate under the advisement of Dr. Corene Matyas, Stephanie is studying the influence of atmospheric moisture on the structure of landfalling hurricanes, with the goal of improving precipitation forecasts in these dangerous storms. Her […]
Two alums of 2014, Jessy Van Horn and James Richardson, shared the $500 prize for the best graduate student poster at SEDAAG 2014 despite completing the research as part of their undergraduate course in Models in Hydrology. Jessy is currently a graduate student at the University of East Carolina and James is a technician with […]
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 […]