At the annual meeting 2018 Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG) meeting in Johnson City, TN, November 18-19, UNCG had a very strong showing. Nearly 20 students and faculty attended and many of those presented papers and posters. MA student Tyler Mitchell won the Best Masters Paper award… Continue reading…
Dr. Debbage was honored at the UNCG Entrepreneurship Awards Luncheon held in the Virginia Dare Room of the Alumni House in early November. He was given a plaque by Provost Dana Dunn recognizing his outstanding service to the Entrepreneurship Cross-Disciplinary Program at UNCG. Earlier, he was able to talk with… Continue reading…
Roger Bardsley (PhD candidate) has recently written a blog post on “Portland Transit” for the the American Planning Association website. His blog post can be found in this link, http://apa-nc.org/portland-transit/. Congratulations to Roger!
UNC Greensboro received the 2018 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education. The award was given in recognition of the STAMPS (Science, Technology and Math Preparation Scholarships) Program, funded in part by a $1 million NSF grant. Professor… Continue reading…
Congrats to Ph.D. student Jesse Lane who has recently published a new entry on “maritime trade” in R. F. Buschmann & L. Nolde (Eds.), The World’s Oceans: Geography, History, and Environment (pp. 297-300). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. https://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A5039C
Nastaran Pourebrahim and Hyojin Kim (co-authored with Dr. Sultana) published a paper in Sustainability 2018, 10(5), 1511 that analyzed the spatial variation of the key factors associated with HH energy expenditures at census tract level by utilizing geographically weighted regression (GWR) for the 14 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in North… Continue reading…
We are delighted to welcome two new colleagues who will start tenure-track positions as assistant professors in August 2018. Dr. Sarah Praskievicz (Ph.D., University of Oregon) joins us from the University of Alabama, where she was an assistant professor. Dr. Praskievicz’s work lies at the intersection of climatology, hydrology, and… Continue reading…
Firoozeh Karimi (with Dr. Sultana) just published a paper in “Papers in Applied Geography” that analyzed land suitability for organic crops in Duplin County, North Carolina. She hopes her method of analysis would be helpful for farmers in Duplin County, NC to find appropriate land for organic rain-fed winter wheat…. Continue reading…
Hyojin Kim (with Dr. Sultana) just published a paper in “Transport Policy” that evaluated the performance of high-speed rail stations on economic development. His research finds that station located proximity to CBD perform better than satiations that are located in urban peripheries. He hopes that KTX should give centrality an… Continue reading…
Congratulations to Nastaran Pourebrahim (PhD candidate) for recently being elected as a student board member for the Transportation Geography Specialty Group (TGSG) of the American Association of Geographers.
