News Archive
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 - 9:47pm
Congratulations to our recent MA graduate - Yiyi Zhange (class of 2019) - for her thesis work which has been selected to receive the First Place of the Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award at the University of Northern Iowa. Titled “Evaluating Livelihood Vulnerability of Farming Communities to Winter...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - 4:20pm
Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Larsen for receiving the 2020 National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) Higher Education Distinguished Teaching Award that recognizes excellence in higher education geography teaching. Check his video of acceptance speech for the NCGE virtual conference: https...
Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 6:09pm
From Fall 2020, the University of Northern Iowa’s Lisa Millsaps and Thomas Larsen started the “Panther Placemakers Podcast” dedicated to all things in geography with topics ranging from local to global issues, as well as happenings around the Geography Department. Episodes can be accessed through...
Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 5:01pm
Bingqing Liang along with professors and experts from several universities and companies were interviewed by Zippia, the Career Expert to provide opinions on where the job market for recent graduates is heading, and how young graduates entering the industry can be adequately prepared. See here for...
Thursday, May 28, 2020 - 11:22am
The below excerpt highlights recent geographic information science graduate Maritza Salinas. For the full story, visit insideuni.uni.edu/three-journeys-uni-graduate-school.
As the daughter of two immigrants who strove to build their family a foothold in the US, Maritza Salinas grew up knowing...
Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 4:29pm
ARTICenter in the Department of Geography received nearly 1 million dollars research grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct a transdisciplinary research project aimed at understanding the adaptation of Arctic communities to sea-ice variability in the Bering Sea coast of Alaska and...
Friday, February 7, 2020 - 3:17pm
Friday, Jan. 31 marked the inaugural “Arctic Day” on UNI’s campus as declared by the UNI ARCTICenter.
In honor of the inauguration of Arctic Day, as well as the launch of University of the Arctic (UArctic) on campus, the ARCTICenter held a launch and information session in Rod Library at 11 a.m.,...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 - 9:43am
Congratulations to Wyatt Cheney (GIS, BS) and Ty Kral (History, BA) for receiving the 2019 Donald and Gudrun Fruehling Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, with each will be awarded a stipend of $1,500. Wyatt will be working on flood simulations along the Missouri River in the IA/NE region...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - 2:29pm
Drs. Bingqing Liang, Andrey Petrov, James Dietrich, Maureen Clayton (Biology) and Mark Sherrard (Biology) received a $77,601 Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to purchase a portable Hyperspectral Imaging (HI) instrument for both laboratory- and...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 12:08pm
UNI Geography and Aerial Services, Inc. have formalized a paid, credit-applicable internship for geography students. Applications for the 2018 and 2019 Fall internship are accepted anytime but those for the 2019 Summer internship should be submitted by April 20. Please download this form for more...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - 10:23pm
Congratulations to Dr. Alex Oberle to be recently selected as one of only five individuals, and the only individual from a higher education institution, to receive a National Geographic Education Fellow from the National Geographic Society for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 - 9:43pm
Four geography MA students recently attended the 2017 West Lakes American Association of Geographers (AAG) being held at Missouri State University - West Plains, West Plains, MO on Oct 19-21. Among them, Dane Atkins (paper titled "GIS Procedure for Demarcating Sites for Analysis of Traffic Safety...
Friday, April 14, 2017 - 2:11pm
The Department of Geography hosted the 2017 Iowa Geographic Bee. The state competition is organized by National Geographic and the Geographic Alliance of Iowa, and the winner earns a spot in the National Geographic Bee competition held by National Geographic. The 103 student participants with...
Thursday, December 15, 2016 - 5:26pm
Geography students Dane Atkins, Athila Gevaerd Montibeller, Dylan Nielsen, and Peterson Wambuu won awards at the Masters Graduate competition at the 2016 West Lakes AAG Conference being held at Marquette, MI on Oct 13-15.
Among them, Peterson Wambuu won the Second place at the "Graduate Paper"...
Monday, September 12, 2016 - 2:30pm
Dr. Bingqing Liang and Dr. Andrey Petrov receive a $408,587 grant from the National Science Foundation to support for the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. Titled “The Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Hyperspectral Imagine (IDREHSI)”, this project seeks to introduce...
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 4:07pm
Geography graduate students Emily Francis, Athila Gevaerd Montibeller, and Arif Masrur won the First, Second, and Third Places at the "Graduate Poster" competition at the 2015 West Lake AAG Conference, respectively. The titles for their posters are: "Analyzing winter activities of wild Taimyr...
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 4:07pm
The newly restructured BA in Geography is now enrolling. The BA includes concentrations that include "Planning and Development", "Environmental Systems and Sustainability", and "Globalization and Regional Geography". Please click here for more information.
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 4:07pm
Dr. Andrey Petrov received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for arctic research. Titled "Arctic-FROST: Arctic Frontiers of Sustainability: Resources, Societies, Environments and Development in the Changing North", this project seeks to improve life in Arctic communities. More...
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 4:07pm
During the 2014 Arctic-FROST Annual Meeting that was held in Anchorage, Alaska on Sept 18-20, Dr. Petrov (the lead investigator and director of ARc-FROST) was interviewed by the Alaska Public Radio for sustainability issues in the arctic region. Click here to listen to the interview. [People in the...
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 4:07pm
The Geography Department welcomes the new Chinese visiting scholar – Dr. Wenjie (Wendy) Zhao who just arrived at the UNI campus. Dr. Zhao is a full professor of Environmental Sciences at the Northeast Normal University in China. She earned her B.S. in Environmental Sciences and a M.S. in Ecology...