The Graduate School has developed the Network for Enriched Mentorship (NEM) program to provide individualized mentorship for graduate students. GSCU faculty member Dr. Peter Chen is now directing the program. The story is featured on UConn Today.
Thanks to the GSCU graduate student Elaina Hancock for writing the story.
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.
Congratulations to the UConn GeoBowl Team! With the help of GeoBowl advisor, Dr. Nat Trumbull, Hunter Jacobson and Jack Dennison emerged as champions at the 2024 NESTVAL meeting. The regional AAG meeting took place October 25 & 26 at Westfield State University.
Congratulations to Aaron Adams for successfully defending his dissertation, which is titled: Spatial Perspectives on COVID-19: Lessons for Future Pandemic Preparedness.
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).
Congratulations to Jake Layburn for successfully defending his thesis, which is titled: Health Geographic Perspective on Mpox Outbreak in the United States.
Congratulations to Quinn Molloy for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled: Auto-dependency, Equity, and Place: A comprehensive assessment of household spending on transportation in the United States.
Congratulations to Yunhe Cui for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled: Bike-sharing: Towards Equitable Urban Transportation.
The UConn Board of Trustees voted at its meeting on Feb. 29 to establish a new department merging the Department of Geography with Urban and Community Studies and providing an administrative home for Environmental Studies.
The new Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community and Urban Studies (GSCU) will draw on existing research and teaching strengths to address interdisciplinary issues in geography, environment, and sustainability.
The other new department is the Department of Social and Critical Inquiry, which will join four units: American Studies Program, Asian and Asian American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.
Both new departments will be effective as of July 1, and they are set to launch at the beginning of the fall semester.
Congratulations to Congcong Miao for earning an AAG Travel Award from the Applied Geography Specialty Group of the AAG. Explore Congcong’s winning paper, Assessing Network-Based Traffic Crash Risk using Prospective Space-Time Scan Statistic Method.