Student News Spring 2021
Mykael Pineda Awarded UROP Grant
Mykael will be using GIS mapping technology to determine the accessibility of seedling planting sites by foot and reports she is "grateful for the opportunity and optimistic about what the future holds!"
Anila Narayana Awarded UROP Grant
The aim of this research project is to determine how participation in urban gardens impacts food insecurity and mental health in underserved Denver communities, as well as to understand spatial patterns between food deserts and mental health services in the area.
Zac Clement Awarded UROP Grant
The project aims to get a better grasp on how undergraduate students have experienced housing insecurity throughout the past year, which he'll be using to write his Geography honor's thesis.
Jessica Voveris Wins the Thompson Award First Prize in the Graduate Memoir category
Jessica's essay, "Into the Lab but Born Out of the Frontier: A Scientist's Journey Growing Up in the American West," can be read in its entirety in the News & Events section of the Geography website. It was awarded first prize in the Graduate Memoir category.
Xiaoling Chen received an SWG Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research
Xiaoling is a PhD student in Geography. She is advised by Dr. Tim Oakes. She also received generous support for her field research from the Geography Department through the Jennifer Dinaburg Memorial Research Award and the Solstice Graduate Research Award, and from CU Boulder through the Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant award and the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS).
Shruthi Jagadeesh Wins Graduate Part Time Instructor Appreciation Award
A PhD student of Geography, Shruthi received an MA from the 鶹Ƶ in 2020. Her interests include Political Ecology, development, indigenous communities, and conservation. She is advised by Mara Goldman.
Jessica DiCarlo Receives 2021 Summer Graduate School Fellowship
Jessica is a PhD candidate in Geography. She received her Master's degree from the University of California Berkeley in 2016. Her interests span critical development studies, political ecology, and infrastructure studies. She is advised by Dr. Emily Yeh, Professor and Chair of the Geography Department.
With the generous support of donors and the CU Boulder community, the Graduate School offers awards, grants, and fellowships that support the outstanding research, creative work, and teaching of our graduate students.
Phurwa Dhondup Published in Geoforum Journal
Based on research in Humla district in northwest Nepal, the article challenges the “infrastructural orthodoxy” that posits the region’s food insecurity to be the direct result of geographical remoteness and the lack of a motorable road. Instead, it analyzes how road building can increase vulnerability rather than resolving food insecurity, leading to the proletarianization of wage workers and increased dependence on distant markets for the reproduction of local social lives.