Holly Smith wins awards
Geography Ph.D. student receives awards for dissertation research
Leah Moore named Hollings Scholar
Geography undergrad one of five winners at USC for 2018
Sam Nielson earns the Puchala fellowship
Geography grad student to continue his work on immigrant integration in Belgium
Geography grad students win awards at AAG
Papers by Huang and Jiang honored at national geography conference
Huixuan Li receives Vernberg Fellowship
Award to support research at the Baruch Marine Field Lab
Yuqin Jiang receives AAG award
Geography graduate student Jiang announced as winner of the 2018 Outstanding Master's Thesis Award from AAG Transportation Geography Specialty Group
USC geographers in the news
Local media seeks out geographers to comment on current events
International Center of Excellence (ICoE) on Big Earth Data for Coastal Zone and Disasters to be established
Professors Cuizhen Wang and Susan Cutter of the Department of Geography to head new center
Huan Ning wins the USGIF/NVIDIA GPU essay challenge
Geography graduate student Huan Ning will receive two NVIDIA Titan XP GPUs
Holly Smith awarded Bilinksi Fellowship
Ph.D. student in geography awarded grant from the Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship Program to support her research
Dr. April Hiscox awarded NSF/NCAR grant
A new experiment to study Earth's stable boundary layers
USC geographers in the news
Local and national media turn to USC faculty members for analysis of the August 2017 solar eclipse and recent weather events
Geography faculty and research staff receive ASPIRE grants for 2017-2018
The Office of the Vice President for Research announced funding decisions for the 2017 ASPIRE I, II and III internal research competitions, and USC Geographers were prominent among the winners
Geography undergraduates recognized at USC Awards Day program
As the 2016-2017 academic year winds down, a number of Geography undergraduates were recognized at the university's Awards Day program on April 20, 2017
Graduate student Ellie Davis receives prestigious fellowship
The award supports research on agricultural soil salinization on the North Carolina coast
Dr. Jessica Barnes wins Howard Foundation fellowship
The fellowship provides Dr. Barnes with the opportunity to develop her book project on wheat and bread in Egypt
Graduate student Alice Arnold wins award at AAG
The 2017 Student Field Research Award will support fieldwork on mobility in Palestine
Smith and Lu named recipients of SPARC Graduate Research Grants
Two USC Geography Ph.D students recognized with grants from the Office of the Vice-President for Research
Alysha Baratta awarded the 2016 Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Justice Award
Graduate student Alysha Baratta awarded prestigious university-wide social justice award for her work on the Refugee Garden on the University of South Carolina campus.
Dow Wins Prestigious AAAS Fellowship
Dr. Kirstin Dow, Professor of Geography, has been named an inaugural fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Leshner Leadership Institute.
Three geography graduate students awarded SPARC grants
Geography graduate students Alexandria McCombs, Jenny Hung, and Beth Nelson awarded funding from the USC Office of the Vice President for Research to support their dissertation research.
Kevin Remington to participate in workshop on GIS and the spatial humanities
Campus GIS Coordinator Kevin Remington will team up with the Center for Digital Humanities to offer a workshop on using GIS.
Graduate student Angie Seidler wins prestigious Critical Language Scholarship
The scholarship, funded by the US Department of State, funds intensive language study.
PhD student Beth Nelson wins Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
Graduate student Beth Nelson has been awarded the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award by the Fellowships and Scholarships Committee of the Graduate Council of the University of South Carolina.
USC Geography end of the year awards round-up
As the academic year wraps up, both faculty and students in the Department of Geography have won numerous awards, grants, and fellowships.