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Sarah Haas Selected as the Recipient of the 2012-2013 Lucile and Edward Giles Dissertation-Year Fellowship
Sarah Haas (Geography Ph.D. student) has been selected as the recipient of the 2012-13 Lucile and Edward Giles Dissertation-Year Fellowship at UNC Charlotte. This $21,000 award was established by Lucille Giles to allow students to focus full-time on the completion and writing of their dissertation, and to support travel associated with their research. Sarah’s dissertation […]
Seth Brazel is the 2012-13 EPIC Energy Research Assistantship Winner
As an EPIC Energy Research Assistantship recipient, Seth will be given a research assistantship worth $15,000 during the 2012-13 academic year. Additionally, his sponsoring mentor, Dr. Diemer, will receive a $5,000 research stipend to furthermore support Seth and his research.
Student Assistantships Awarded
Congratulations to Meteorology majors Daniel Cunningham and Albert Washington! They each were awarded Student Assistantships by the American Meteorological Society (details of the award at http://annual.ametsoc.org/2013/index.cfm/information-for/students/student-assistant-program/). The award provides a full week of room and board for Daniel and Albert during the AMS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas in January 2013 (http://annual.ametsoc.org/2013/). Their responsibility will […]

2012 Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference
Several of the department’s graduate students recently attended the 2012 Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Elizabeth Shockey; Claire Schuch; Paul McDaniel; Sara Gleave and Brisa Hernandez, current Ph.D. students in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis, were joined by PPOL Ph.D. student Silva Mathema and M.A. Geography graduate Ronnie Schumann as […]