Department of Geography Accolades

Congratulations to the students in the Department of Geography on their accomplishments throughout the 2017–18 academic year!

  • Ph.D. student Alisa Hartsell (advisor: Dr. Blue) has been selected for the 2018 Boren Fellowship. Alisa plans to use the fellowship to study in China during the 2019 calendar year.
  • Ph.D. student Upendra Bom (advisor: Dr. Tiefenbacher) was awarded the Euro-Asian Specialty Group Field Research Travel Award and the Regional Development and Planning Best Proposal Award at the AAG Meeting in New Orleans.
  • Ph.D. student Joshua Hodge (advisor: Dr. Dixon) was awarded a 2018 Summer Research Scholarship by SWAAG for the project “Geographic Patterns of the Hurricane Ike Storm Surge Sediment Deposit on Southeast Texas Gulf Coast Marshes.”
  • Ph.D. students David Mills, Guixing Wei, Niaz Morshed and Shadi Maleki were awarded a grant by Texas State University’s Environmental Services Committee (ESC) for their Bobcat Clean Air Project. Geography’s representative in ESC is Dr. Carter.
  • Ph.D. student Jennifer Villa (advisor: Dr. Butler) received a travel grant from the Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America to attend the society’s regional meeting in Flagstaff, AZ.
  • Ph.D. student Paepin Goff (advisor: Dr. Butler) was awarded a grant from the University of Wyoming - National Park Service to support her dissertation research.
  • Ph.D. student John Ponstingel (advisor: Dr. Weaver) was admitted to the 2018 George Washington University’s CIBER Summer Doctoral Institute, to be held from May 30 to July 25, 2018. Dr. Elizabeth Chacko, Professor of Geography and International Affairs at GWU, will serve as SDI faculty collaborator. Admission includes a stipend, travel expenses, and free housing in Washington, DC.
  • Dr. Jinhee Lee, a recent graduate of the Geographic Education Ph.D. program (advisor: Dr. Jo) was selected as a 2018 recipient of the Salvatore J. Natoli Dissertation Award from the National Council for Geographic Education. Jinhee will be formally recognized at the annual meeting of the NCGE at the Quebec City, Canada in August.