Category: Awards
Naughton receives 2016 Education Innovation Grant
Prof. Lisa Naughton has received a UW–Madison 2016 Education Innovation Grant to create an international experience for students, specifically for Geog/Envir St 339: Environmental Conservation, through…
Gibbs receives Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award
Congratulations to Geography and Nelson Institute professor, Holly Gibbs, for being selected for a 2016 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. The Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award is given annually to six…
Erika Marin-Spiotta receives Vilas Associate Award
Congratulations to Prof. Erika Marín-Spiotta who has been awarded a Vilas Associate Award. The Vilas Award is a campus-wide competition that recognizes new and ongoing research of the…
Becca Summer receives Innovation in Teaching award
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Becca Summer for winning a campus-wide ‘Innovation in Teaching’ award for her TA work in Introduction to Human Geography (G101) and…
Naughton receives Vilas Research Investigator Award
Professor Lisa Naughton has been selected to receive a UW–Madison Vilas Research Investigator Award. The award provides $30,000 of funding for research assistants or project assistants for the 2015-2016 academic year. Naughton’s…
Faculty awarded NSF grant to study transboundary hazardous waste trade
Faculty members Sarah A. Moore, Robert Roth and Morgan Robertson were awarded $400,000 by the National Science Foundation’s Geography and Spatial Sciences program to study…
Nathan Green wins Buchanan Prize
PhD student Nathan Green has been selected as the recipient of the MCAA Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize for the best paper in the Southeast Asia category…
LifeMapping wins Burrill Business Plan Awards
GIS Certificate student, Dean Olsen, won two awards at the Steve Burrill Business Plan Competition hosted by the UW Madison Business School this spring. With…
Kimambo receives grant for endangered primate research in Tanzania
The Chicago Zoological Society awarded Niwaeli Kimambo a Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) Endangered Species Fund grant to conduct field research this summer on improving forest connectivity for…
Green receives Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award
Ph.D. student Nathan Green was awarded the Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for Outstanding Research in Social Studies for his paper, “The History and Economy of Anti-Malarial…
