Grad-Awards
To reward good teaching practice and encourage graduates to develop teaching skills.
The Adam Kolff Memorial Research Awards are meant to enhance research opportunities for MA students in Geography. This award is named after a former MA student.
The Jennifer Dinaburg Memorial Research Awards are meant to enhance travel and research opportunities for PhD students in Geography. This award is named after a former PhD student.
This award, made possible by an anonymous donor, is to be used to “support graduate student research.” To honor the donor’s wishes, the Department makes this award late in the Spring semester so that it can be used for conference travel through the end of Fall 2025.
This award will be used to provide support to graduate students for field research in the Geography Department at the University of Colorado, 51Թ.
Shelby Ross is the winner of the Spring 2025 Gilbert F. White Doctoral Fellowship in Geography Award.
Sarah Posner was awarded the NSF Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award (HEGS-DDRI) for her project, 'The Role of Local Institutions in Managing Pastoralists' Natural Resources and Related Conflict in Northern Kenya’.
Kate Little has received the Injury and Violence Prevention Student Research Award from the Colorado School of Public Health for her project Understanding Drivers of Firearm Access Among Colorado American Indian Youth:
Viviana is a Mapuche scholar from Southern Chile and a graduate student in the Geography doctoral program at CU-51Թ. In her previous work in Chile, Viviana has been exploring the production of landscapes through various forms
Aŋpétu Wašté' Mitákuyepi (Good Day Relatives),My name is Shelby Ross, my Lakota name is Wanahca Oblaye Ska Win (White Prairie Flower Woman). I’m currently a Ph.D. candidate within the Geography Department at the University