Dr. Lennartson is one of the feature stories on UNCG’s main webpage. If you click on the picture it takes you to UNCGnow for the story and at the bottom of that page is the full interview. The video is also on the university’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-f3EDAWWOI.
Congratulations to Tommy Patterson for his publication in Castanea . His paper, “Stand dynamics influence masting/radial growth relationships in Pinus palustris Mill.” was published in the December 2016 issue of the journal (81:314–322). Great work Tommy!
UNCG was well represented at the 2016 meeting of the Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers in Columbia, SC, November 20-21, 2016. Six faculty and sixteen graduate students attended the meeting. MA student Keith Watkins brought home the Best Paper award in the Master’s category, and Ph.D. candidate… Continue reading…
Dr. Keith Debbage recently presented at the World Bank/George Washington University Annual Entrepreneurship Conference in Washington DC. The title of his talk was “The Geographies of Entrepreneurship: Non-Farm Proprietorship Employment by MSA”
MA student Keith Watkins featured in UNCG Magazine for his work locating the oldest trees on campus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ESvlfD0uk&feature=youtu.be . See the accompanying article on p. 24 of the magazine: http://ure.uncg.edu/magazine/2016_fall/pdf/2016UNCGFallAlumniMagazine-v2.pdf
Ben Holt (MA 2013) was recently named Young Planner of the Month by the Virginia American Planning Association. Currently, Ben is a land use planner for Fauquier County in Northern Virginia. For his MA Internship, Ben completed a land use corridor study for the City of Kernersville. You can see… Continue reading…
Russell Smith (PhD, 2007) and Brad Bereitschaft (PhD, 2011) recently co-authored and published “Sustainable Urban Development? Exploring the Locational Attributes of LEED-ND Projects in the United States through a GIS Analysis of Light Intensity and Land Use” in the journal Sustainability. Talk about keeping it in the UNCG Geography family!… Continue reading…
Congratulations to Victoria Bailiff (MA 2016) who has just been hired as Planner II for the Town of Pittsboro. She had previously interned with the City of Lexington and developed a Small Area Plan for a part of the city’s downtown while also analyzing the benefits of adaptive re-use for… Continue reading…
Dr. Keith Debbage is one of three Coleman Entrepreneurship Veteran Fellows listed in the recently announced grant from the Coleman Foundation for the UNCG Coleman Entrepreneurship Fellows program for 2016-2017. As a Fellow, he will be responsible for promoting the academic entrepreneurship program at UNCG both on-campus and in the… Continue reading…
Dr. Corey Johnson’s co-edited book, Placing the Border in Everyday Life, has won the Association of Borderlands Studies Past President’s Gold Book Award. The ABS Past Presidents’ Book Award is presented to any published monographic (single or multiple authored, including edited) book in the social and natural sciences, and humanities… Continue reading…
