GeoJeopardy
'Everybody Wants to Avoid Mexico': The NGO Dilemma and Geographies of Danger on the US-Mexico Border
Modeling the effects of climate change on soils in semiarid environments
Activism, Civic Engagement, and the Knowledge Politics of the Geoweb
Turning Financial Markets Inside Out: Polanyi, Performativity and Disembeddedness
The Evolution of Chute Cutoffs on Large Meandering Rivers: Lessons Learned from Mackey Bend, Wabash River
What I did last summer
Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor
We are also very pleased to announce Dr. Karl Raitz has been named the Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor. This award is highly competitive and is selected from nominations submitted by the Deans of UK's colleges. Recipients are honored for their consistently high level of achievement in their contributions to their disciplines and the university. The appointment is for three years, and brings a research fund for each of the three years.
Dimensions of Political Ecology: Conference on Nature Society Research
On February 18th and 19th the University of Kentucky Political Ecology Working Group held the first annual “Dimensions of Political Ecology: Conference on Nature Society Research.” The conference was organized by a group of graduate students in geography, anthropology, and sociology. Conference participation was interdisciplinary and international with over 125 participants serving as presenters, discussants, and field guides. Given the success of the event a follow up in 2012 is imminent. See the UKPEWG website for more details about the working group and the conference.