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Each year we honor those students that have gone above and beyond everyday course work. Due to COVID-19, we were unable to have our annual awards dinner in the spring of 2020. Because of COVID-19 we had to find ways to do many of the things we take for granted each and every day. Here […]

As communities relax COVID-19 restrictions, a recent study by UNC Charlotte geographer Eric Delmelle and two of his former doctoral students could provide decision-makers with timely data about spikes in COVID-19 cases to help guide their decisions. The research, published in the journal Applied Geography this spring, tracks clusters of COVID-19 down to the county […]

Since 2012, the somewhat unusual research pairing of a geologist and mechanical engineer at UNC Charlotte has led to some important scientific results, and has recently earned recognition of their work with a top award for interdisciplinary research and publication. Dr. Martha Cary (Missy) Eppes, professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Geography and […]

Colleen Hammelman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Grant to study population change and gentrification in urban foodscapes. Over the next five years, this research will investigate the impact of changing urban economies on landscapes created and utilized […]

The department created a short video to congratulate the class of 2020.

Eleven outstanding students were recently honored at the annual University Honor and Awards Ceremony, held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. Connor Wood, a Geography major with a minor in Economics, is graduate of Leadership Fellows. He served as a STAR mentor and program coordinator. This past year, he was Royal Court chair for the […]

PhD Candidate Paul Jung received the 3rd Prize of the John Odland Award at the 2020 AAG. The John Odland Award is given to winners of the student paper competition of the Spatial Analysis & Modeling Specialty Group of AAG. The award was for Paul Jung’s paper co-authored with Dr. Jun Song: “Multivariate Neighborhood Trajectory […]

Caroline Brinegar, MA, Geography, recently designated as one of UNC Charlotte’s most Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistants (TA). Caroline Brinegar is a first generation, non-traditional master’s student in the Geography program. She has worked as a teaching assistant as both an undergraduate and graduate student. Read the full article here: https://graduateschool.uncc.edu/news/biology-geography-graduate-students-honored-top-teaching-assistants

Toward the end of our conversation, as she nurses the last of her sour IPA at Divine Barrel Brewing in NoDa, one of the nation’s foremost researchers of craft breweries and their effects on urban economies gestures toward the beer menu scrawled, as in most taprooms, on a chalkboard that hangs behind the bar. “Most […]

In mid January, students and faculty from Geography and Earth Sciences will be representing UNC Charlotte at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting https://annual.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/2020/ in Boston. The conference hosts over 4,000 attendees with applied and theoretical research related to atmospheric sciences, and includes both a Student Conference and the Full Conference. Many students from […]