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.
Dr. Corey Johnson, Associate Professor and Department Head, will assume the role of co-editor of the journal Geopolitics in August 2018. This international journal published work on a wide range of topics related to interstate relations, global institutions, regional integration, energy resources and trade routes, and state borders. Congratulations to… Continue reading…
John Nowlin has recently been hired as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Geospatial Technologies, in the Agriculture Department at Arkansas State University. He has previously taught for our Geography Department. John will be developing and teaching undergraduate and graduate, introductory through advanced courses in Geographic Information Systems, GPS for Precision… Continue reading…
Dr. Debbage will receive the John Rooney Award for Applied Research from the Association of American Geographers – Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group at the Annual Meeting in New Orleans. He becomes only the fifth geographer to receive both the Rooney Award and the Roy Wolfe Award for Theoretical… Continue reading…
On March 29th from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, students from elementary school through college are participating in the Student Climate Change Summit. The summit will include a mix of research talks, poster presentations, and artworks on display. A keynote address by Professor Anthony Oliver-Smith will close out… Continue reading…
Dr. Debbage and Shaylee Bowen’s paper at the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference in Los Angeles in early January was one of just four papers selected for the Research Track: Competitive Research Papers session on International Entrepreneurship and Ecosystems. The paper was titled “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Key… Continue reading…
Dr. Selima Sultana’s book, Minicars, Maglevs, and Mopeds: Modern Modes of Transportation around the World (2016 ABC-CLIO Press), was highlighted in the December 5th issue of UNCG’s Campus Weekly. Selima’s work, co-edited with Joe Weber of the University of Alabama, discusses over 150 transportation modes that currently are in use… Continue reading…
North Carolina’s World Geography Bowl Team took home their 2nd straight SEDAAG World Geography Bowl Championship on November 20, 2017, at the Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Starkville, Mississippi. North Carolina went a perfect 5-0 in round-robin competition, outscoring opponents by a combined total… Continue reading…
A report released this week by the Working Group on Climate, Nuclear, and Security Affairs, chaired by the Center for Climate and Security, has articulated a first-of-its kind framework for understanding and addressing the complex connections between climate change, security, and nuclear issues. Dr. Corey Johnson is a member of… Continue reading…
Two of the five papers selected for the Doctoral Honors Paper competition at this year’s annual SEDAAG meeting in Starkville, Mississippi are from UNCG. They include Makoto Ikegaya who will be presenting a paper titled “The Geography of the Creative Class in the Greater Tokyo Area” and Pankaj Bajracharya who… Continue reading…
