Awards from AAG Population Speciality Group

The Population Specialty Group of the AAG awarded Professor Emeritus Bill Clark a Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to Population Geography in terms of teaching, research, and service.

Graduate students Chuncui Velma Fan and Dylan Connor placed first and second, respectively, in the Population Geography Student Paper Competition of the AAG. (Fan: Wage Inequality among Immigrant Workers in the U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Spatial-temporal Patterns and Implication for Rising Overall Wage Inequality. Connor: Child Mortality and Urban Space: A multilevel analysis of 21,563 mothers in Dublin City, 1911)

New Trans-Arctic shipping routes navigable by midcentury

Research by graduate student Scott Stephenson and Professor Larry Smith suggests that Trans-Arctic shipping routes may significantly expand in feasibility by mid-century.

Reference: PNAS

Additional media coverage: Reuters | USA Today | LA Times | Washington Post | NPR

Professor Cindy Fan receives Distinguished Teaching Award

Professor Cindy Fan receives the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.

Professor Carney will receive AAG Award

Professor Judy Carney will receive the Association of American Geographer’s (AAG) Distinguished Scholarship Honors.

Professor Carey in NY Times

Professor Judith Carney on African plants raised in gardens in New York in the New York Times.