Geography and Planning News
Professor Lapenas' interview with National Public Radio
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a new report that dives into land use and how it relates to climate change.
UAlbany's Geography and Planning to offer digital tours through Albany Rural Cemetery
It's GPS — but for a cemetery.
A group of faculty and students at the University at Albany Department of Geography and Planning unveiled the Albany Rural Cemetery Explorer program Saturday, which will allow visitors to take a digital tour through the iconic, 178-year-old cemetery.
ARCE currently has mapped out dozens of gravesites of notable people buried at the cemetery, like former Albany mayor Erastus Corning 2nd or Chester Arthur, the 21st president of the United States. It also features the locations of people who participated in the Revolutionary War.
Kate Coddington wins Stanley D. Brunn Junior Scholar Award
Congratulations to Kate Coddington, the Department's newest faculty member, for receiving the 2018 Stanley D. Brunn Junior Scholar Award, presented at the Spring 2018 American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting.
The Stanley D. Brunn Junior Scholar Award is given to an untenured scholar who has received her/his Ph.D. within the past ten years, in honor of contributions that have generated new interest in the subfield and/or opened up new areas of inquiry for political geographic research.
Geography MA Alumni Becomes UAlbany CIO
Congratulations to Brian Heaton, a Geography MA and Geographic Information Certificate alumni in his new position as Chief Information Officer of the University at Albany!
Alex Buyantuev awarded a CHEER grant
Alex Buyantuev, PhD, was awarded a CHEER grant to support the teaching of his Geospatial Applications of Drones class in the spring of 2018.
The CHEER Fund supports faculty and staff initiated undergraduate engagement activities by reimbursing up to $250.00 of incurred expenses. Engagement activities can be loosely defined as opportunities for personal interaction between faculty/staff and undergraduate students that create a mutual sense of intellectual investment. In other words, anything that sparks our students’ interest in learning might qualify for a CHEER grant.
Geography and Planning student received multiple awards at national and departmental levels
Andrew Kim, a student in the BA/MA combined degree program in Geography, has won two awards at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in New Orleans on April 12th. Andrew presented his research paper titled “Visual Variables on Mobile Devices: An Empirical Study of Their Roles in Gaining Spatial Awareness”. He received the Best Paper Award in the Honors Student Paper Competition organized by the Cartography specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. His presentation on this research paper also granted him a Travel Award awarded by the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography special Group of the American Association of Geographers.