geography
GeoJeopardy
'Everybody Wants to Avoid Mexico': The NGO Dilemma and Geographies of Danger on the US-Mexico Border
Modeling the effects of climate change on soils in semiarid environments
Turning Financial Markets Inside Out: Polanyi, Performativity and Disembeddedness
The Evolution of Chute Cutoffs on Large Meandering Rivers: Lessons Learned from Mackey Bend, Wabash River
What I did last summer
Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor
We are also very pleased to announce Dr. Karl Raitz has been named the Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor. This award is highly competitive and is selected from nominations submitted by the Deans of UK's colleges. Recipients are honored for their consistently high level of achievement in their contributions to their disciplines and the university. The appointment is for three years, and brings a research fund for each of the three years.
UK Geography Prof. Kim receives Nystrom Award
Professor Daehyun Kim has won the Association of American Geographers J. Warren Nystrom Award for 2012.
GIS Workshop Strengthens Community Ties
Students in geography Professor Matt Wilson's GIS Workshop course spent the past semester applying the knowledge of geographic technology they gained in the classroom to assist Lexington nonprofit organizations Seedleaf and Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice.