Congratulations to Sydney Clements for successfully defending her dissertation, which is titled: Distributing Equity: An Analysis of Existing Food Hub Distribution Models in Connecticut.

Prof. Debs Ghosh is invited to give a colloquium talk at the Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, UMass Amherst, on Friday, Sept 19^th.

The title of her talk is “Listening to Communities, Measuring Inequities: A New Index of Structural Racism and Discrimination”

Congratulations to Peter Chen for receiving the UConn College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) 2025 Climate, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategic Goals Award.  Peter’s work leading DEI programs funded by CLAS have been examples for efforts he is now leading at the Graduate School.

This award is well deserved.  We thank you for your leadership.

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 3^rd 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

Congratulations to Shahriyar Parvez for earning a 2025 AAG Marble Fund Award for Innovative Master’s Research in Quantitative Geography.

This award recognizes excellence in academic performance for the best research in quantitative geography leading to the Master’s degree.

Read more about the Marble Fund Award on the AAG website.