The School of Geography & Development at the University of Arizona seeks to fill a tenured Associate or Full Professor position in the area of integrated land use or human-environment systems. We seek a senior physical or human-environmental scholar with a very strong track record of grants and publications who can contribute to interdisciplinary environmental research at the University of Arizona. We are especially interested in scholars whose research combines (a) the collection, use,... Read more

Congratulations to Christina Greene who has received a grant from USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) for her work on drought in the San Joaquin Valley.  It provides a stipend for 2 years plus fieldwork travel. 

Kudos to Kara Tanoue who has been awarded the SBSRI Pre-doctoral Grant Award for a SNAP retailer access study in rural communities. Here are some of the reviewers’ comments “Truly outstanding. The research has good theoretical foundations. I could absolutely see this research affecting government policy and the policy of NGOs and food sellers”.

Way to go, Kara.

The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide written by Eric Magrane and Christopher Cokinos was just selected as a Southwest Book of the Year.  Here's the article from the Daily Star:

http://tucson.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/pima-county-public-library-presents-southwest-books-of-the-year/... Read more

Congratulations to Arica Crootof and Tom Stieve who recently passed their oral exams!

Congratulations to Jared Powell who successfully defended his dissertation recently the title of which is: “Spacing Education Reform”.  

The Institute of the Environment website recently had a lead item featuring the work of many geographers—a special issue on the METRICS OF WATER SECURITY AND ADAPTIVE CAPACITY.  The result of the two-year project is a special issue on Metrics, guest edited by Gregg Garfin, Margaret Wilder, and Robert Merideth, and published online in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, comprised of 14 articles by 37 authors in 12 countries.

CONGRATULATIONS to all the faculty and... Read more

Congratulations to Audra El Vilaly White who learned recently that she has been awarded the Marshall Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.  Well done, Audra!!