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GSCU hiring Visiting Assistant Professor

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The Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community and Urban Studies (GCSU) at the University of Connecticut invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor position. This position will begin on August 23, 2025, and will be located at the UConn Storrs campus.

The ideal candidate will bring college-level teaching experience in a wide range of courses in environmental studies, human geography, and urban and community studies. This is a teaching-oriented position. The successful candidate will offer a range of classes, potentially including common curriculum courses in Introduction to Environmental Studies, Globalization, World Regional Geography, Economic Geography, as well as upper division classes in Global Environmental Politics and Environmental and Climate Justice.

More information (including how to apply) can be found here:  https://jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/499031/visiting-assistant-professor.

UConn geographers active at the 2025 AAG conference

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GSCU faculty and students were very active at the 2025 AAG conference in Detroit.  Below are some notable items from UConn geographers.

Awards and Competitions

  • Shahriyar Parvez received the AAG Marble Fund Award for Innovative Master’s Research in Quantitative Geography
  • Shahriyar Parvez placed 3rd for AAG Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group (CISG) Robert Raskin Student Competition
  • Ailing Jin was a finalist in the Health and Medical Geography Peter Gould student paper competition
  • Arunima DasGupta was a finalist in the Health and Medical Geography Peter Gould student paper competition
  • Yunhe Cui was a finalist for the J Warren Nystrom Dissertation Award

 

Specialty Group Election Outcomes

  • Yoo Min Park was elected to serve as an at-large board member for the Health & Medical Geography Specialty Group
  • Sabina Bhandari was elected to serve as student board member for the Health & Medical Geography Specialty Group
  • Samuel Ayivi was elected to serve as student board member for the Energy Environment Specialty Group

GSCU students receive 2025 UConn SURF Awards

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Congratulations to GIS major Katherine Patrick and UCS minor Rafe Kimball for each receiving a 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Award.

Katherine will work with faculty mentor Dr. Dan Wanyama on a project titled:  Proposing Spatially Explicit Land Suitability Models for Orphan Crops to Support Food Security Initiatives in East Africa.

Rafe Kimball will work with faculty mentor Dr. Phil Birge-Liberman on a project titled:  Examining The Perceived Nutritional Environment in the North End of Hartford.

The SURF program is jointly sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research, the Provost’s Office, the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Honors Program, donors to the university, and the Deans of the Schools and Colleges.

UConn Students Compete in Sustainability Challenge

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UConn and Fort Hays State University competed in Werth Innovation for Sustainability Challenge. Two teams of students, one from UConn and one from Fort Hays State University, pitched their sustainability-focused start-up business plans to address food waste in the second Werth Innovation for Sustainability Challenge held on Nov. 2 at UConn. 

Continue reading on UConn Today.

Weixuan Lyu Wins AAG Peter Gould Award

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Congratulations to Weixuan Lyu, a Ph.D. candidate in Geography, for winning the Peter Gould Award from the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) at the 2024 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. This highly competitive award is meant to promote written scholarship by students across the health and medical geography field. Weixuan’s awarded paper is entitled: Beyond Spatial Proximity: Conceptualizing the Perceived Food Activity Space.

Weixuan has also been awarded the Student Travel Award from AAG Environmental Perception and Behavior Geography (EPBG).