Archived News
Tue, Dec 14, 2010
¿Tacos or Tacos?
Geography Ph.D. Student Robert Lemon produces short documentary film on urban food culture in Austin.
Mon, Dec 6, 2010
Jon Gehring attending COP16
Master's Student is part of AAG Delegation to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in Cancun
Wed, Nov 17, 2010
Dr. Je-Hun Ryu visits alma mater and presents current research
His talk was entitled "Contested Identities in Postcolonial Incheon, South Korea"
Wed, Nov 10, 2010
Ingrid Haeckel receives award for Best Presentation
the Student Conference on Conservation Science in New York City
Mon, Nov 1, 2010
Troy Kimmel co-chaired session on flash-flooding during the NWA 2010
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
Troy Kimmel gives presentation to Graduate School on weather emergencies
Thu, Oct 7, 2010
Geography professor returns from Botswana with data and inspiration
Dr. Kelley Crews’ Colloquium Presentation
Mon, Oct 4, 2010
Professor Young to join others in NSF-funded research on climate change in the high Andes of Peru
Sun, Sep 19, 2010
Professor Robert Dull shows that human land use affected climate before the Industrial Revolution
"The Columbian Encounter and the Little Ice Age: Abrupt Land Use Change, Fire, and Greenhouse Forcing" is in the Annals of the AAG Special Issue on Climate Change October 2010
Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Professor Edgardo Latrubesse serves as a guest editor and contributer
This special issue is titled Hydro-geomorphology, sediment transport and human impacts in large South American rivers
Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Latino Migration, Rural Transformation & Development
Wed, Sep 1, 2010
John Henry Garza, UT guard retires
Wed, Sep 1, 2010
Spatial autocorrelation and species distribution models
Analyzing the effects of spatial structure, sampling strategy, statistical methods, and scale using simulated data
Fri, Aug 20, 2010
Register for Fall 2010 Courses
Thu, Aug 19, 2010
Welcome to the 2010 Graduate Students
Tue, Aug 17, 2010
UT research collaboration leads to new law in Austin protecting construction workers.
Mon, Aug 2, 2010
Mexico Fast Forward: Austin American-Statesman
Dr. William E. Doolittle contributes to Newspaper in the article "From the 19th to the 21st century in three decades"
Tue, Jul 20, 2010
Biogeomorphic and Ecological Influence of Stones on Haleakala Silverswords
Dr. Francisco L. Pérez Presentation on Geography YouTube Channel
Fri, Jun 11, 2010
Graduate Students Featured in Daily Texan
Lindsey Carte, Othoniel Vazquez-Dominguez, and Josh Rudow were featured in the Daily Texan about issues surrounding their summer research in Mexico.
Fri, Jun 4, 2010
Dr. Leo Zonn Awarded Fulbright to Croatia for Academic Year
Fri, Jun 4, 2010
Robert Lemon Receives Vespucci Scholarship
Tue, Jun 1, 2010
Dr. Adams awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study national and regional identity in Norway and Finland
Nordic Identity in Online Discourses
Mon, May 31, 2010
Sharon Wilcox Adams wins three awards and elected to four boards at national meeting
Thu, May 6, 2010
Matt LaFevor awarded Boren Fellowship
Sun, Apr 25, 2010
UTGS goes to San Antonio Missions
Thu, Apr 15, 2010
Graduate Students present in AAG National Meeting
2010 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
Wed, Apr 14, 2010
Robert Lemon invited to talk at Yale School of Architecture's symposium, "Positioning Global Systems."
Measuring the Social Constructs of Space: Using GIS to Quantify Boundary Perceptions of Demographically Distinct Neighborhoods in Oakland, CA
Tue, Apr 13, 2010
Joomi Lee receives the 2010 Gary Gaile Travel Award
Mon, Apr 5, 2010
Eliot Tretter given the Cesar E. Chavez "Si Se Puede" Award
Award is for work on land-use issues in east Austin
Sat, Apr 3, 2010
Sharon Wilcox Adams elected as an officer in GSAG of AAG
Sat, Apr 3, 2010
Ingrid Haeckel wins the 2010 Latin America Specialty Group Student Field Study Award
Fri, Apr 2, 2010
Joomi Lee awarded AAG Dissertation Research Grant
Fri, Apr 2, 2010
Professor Gregory Knapp presented research at University of Puerto Rico
Talk was titled "Agriculture and Culture in the Equatorial Andes"
Tue, Mar 30, 2010
2010 Departmental Student Awards
Sharon W. Adams, Lindsey Carte, Kimberly Horndeski. and Andrew McCown recognized by the Department.
Wed, Mar 10, 2010
UT students and faculty carry out a field trip to the Lower Mississippi Valley and Delta.
Large River Management in a Changing Environment
Tue, Feb 9, 2010
Professor Latrubesse is guest editor for a special issue of Geomorphology
Speical issue entitled "Short and long term processes, landforms and responses in large rivers"
Tue, Feb 9, 2010
Sharon W. Adams wins the 2010 AAG Cultural Geography Specialty Group's Terry Jordan-Bychkov Award
Award for best student paper at the PhD level with an entry entitled "Spotted in the Wilderness: Documenting the Jaguar in the Nineteenth Century."
Thu, Feb 4, 2010
Paul Hudson and Greg Knapp honored with SSD Appreciation Award
Hudson and Knapp receive award in appreciation of their efforts on behalf of those with disabilities
Mon, Feb 1, 2010
Environmental Change in the Western Amazon
Dr. Ken Young's Presentation on Geography YouTube Channel
Tue, Jan 26, 2010
Ophelia Wang co-authored a climate change publication
GIS analysis for species affected by climate change
Thu, Jan 21, 2010
Reena Patel appointed as Public Diplomacy Officer
Ph.D. alum to work with the US State Department
Wed, Jan 20, 2010
M. Anwar Sounny-Slitine featured in the Daily Texan of 1/21/2010
Article "UT students back from Copenhagen" focuses on student reactions to the Copenhagen Accords
Mon, Jan 18, 2010
Prof. Robin Doughty lectures about Bird Representation in Art to Travis Audubon Society
"What Bird is That?" explores people relationship with birds
Wed, Jan 13, 2010
Rebecca Torres featured in the Daily Texan
Professor Torres discusses immigration issues about the chaing nature of immigration
Sun, Jan 10, 2010
Benjamin Hargrove plays key role in Small Business Development Research for the City of Austin.
Through the GISc Center, Hargrove produced maps and spatial analysis for the reports and presentation.
Thu, Jan 7, 2010
Bruce Bacia works with Smithville to develop sidewalk infrastructure for school children
UT Geography Undergrad voulnteers through the GISc Center to develop GIS information for Smithville, Texas
