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Debangana Bose wins 2016 Ohio State Environmental Policy Initiative Grant Competition
Meet the Winners of the 2016 Ohio State Environmental Policy Initiative Grant Competition, our own Debangana Bose joins 2 other PhD students to share this Grant.
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Congratulations Rachel Mauk-Johnson
Please join us in congratulating Ms. Rachel Mauk-Johnson who successfully defended her dissertation this afternoon. The title of Rachel’s dissertation is “Prediction of Intensity Change…

Congratulations to Shaun Fontanella.
Please join us in congratulating Shaun Fontanella, who successfully passed the Final Oral Exam of his PhD dissertation “Ground Truthing the Socio-Technical Model of Energy Transitions at Building…

Congratulations to Hyeyoung Kim
Please join us in congratulating Hyeyoung Kim, who successfully passed her Ph.D. dissertation defense this morning. The title of Hyeyoung’s dissertation is “The Role of Pastoralist Mobility in…

Alumni Update on Nurcan Atalan Helicke and Kejing Peng.
Here is an update on our recent graduate: Nurcan Atalan Helicke is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at Skidmore. She received her Ph.D. here in 2010 with her advisor…

Bryan Mark Presents at WMO meeting.
Here are some further details on the recent trips by Bryan Mark who gave an invited talk at the Snow Watch Meeting a couple of weeks ago. This invitation only meeting is organized by a working…

Columbus awarded $50 million in Smart City grants
A big shout out to all who were involved in the Columbus Winning Smart City Proposal! Harvey Miller worked as part of the great team on this.
Here is the Columbus Dispatch article about the…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
Lot's of news this week:
As of July 1 Kendra McSweeney is the incoming President of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG). It is independent from the AAG, and has about 300…

Congratulations to Yuxi Zhao
Please join us in congratulating Yuxi Zhao, who successfully passed her dissertation defense this morning. Her project is titled, "Entrepreneurship and commodified nature: amenity-led transitions…