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Weekly Newsletter Archive

Each week, the Communications team in the Department of Geography sends out the "Graticule Weekly" newsletter to students, staff, and faculty on current affairs in the department and on campus. Please use the clickable links below to view our archive of newsletters by release date and headline, with the first "Graticule" newsletter sent out on September 17, 2021.

2024 - 

  • June
    • June 7- Join us in Welcoming Our Newest Staff Member, Fabiana Hayden
  • May
    • May 3- Undergraduate Advisor Ryan Smith Wins Outstanding New Advisor Award
    • May 10- Congratulations Class of 2024!
    • May 24- Nemin Wu and Hao Yang Win 2024 AAG Paper Competition Awards
  • April
    • April 5- Fall 2024 Registration Begins
    • April 19- Kelly Neighbour Awarded 2024 Presidential Award of Excellence
    • April 26- 2024 Undergraduate Honors and Awards Recipients
  • March
    • March 1- John Knox Named Recipient of Felton Jenkins Jr. Hall of Fame Faculty Award
    • March 15- Geography Globe Lecture 2024: Danielle Purifoy
    • March 22- UGA Researchers Work to Deploy GeoAI in a Changing World 
    • March 29- GeoAI Seminar: Yuhao Kang 
  • February
    • February 2- Geography Ph.D. Candidate Jielu Zhang Receives Sustainability Grant 
    • February 9- Geography Colloquium with Michelle Ritchie
    • February 16- UGA Geography Alumna Chandana Mitra Named 2024 AAG Fellow 
    • February 23- UGA Geographers Explore Effects of Climate Change in Mountain Lakes of Ecuador 
  • January 
    • January 12- Welcome Back to Campus!
    • January 19- Dr. Christopher Elcik's Research Reveals Demand for Weather Based Pain Forecasts
    • January 26- UGA Geography Alumnus Mingshu Wang Receives IJGI Young Investigator Award

2023 - 

  • December
  • November
  • October 
  • September 
    • September 1- Faculty Spotlight: Marshall Shepherd Wins Environmental Achievement Award
    • September 8- Student Spotlight: UGA GEOG Ph.D. Chintan Maniyar Receives NASA Fellowship
    • September 15- Service-Learning Spotlight: Cross-Institutional Students Support a Coastal Georgia Legacy
    • September 22- Geography Department Publishes Two New Promo Videos
    • September 29- Student Research Spotlight: Recent Graduate Shay Magagey Publishes New Research
  • August
    • August 11- Research Spotlight: New UGA ATSC Research in Nature Communications
    • August 18- Welcome Back to Class
    • August 25- Faculty Spotlight: Chronicle of a Fullbright Global Scholar 
  • July
    • July 28- "Undergraduate Spotlight: ATSC/GEOG Double Major Shania Green"
  • June
    • June 2- "Research Spotlight: 'Play Deserts'"
    • June 16- "Welcome, Dean Stenport"
    • June 30- "UGA in the News"
  • May
    • May 5-  "Dr. Suzanne Birch Hosts a New 20- Episode Lecture Series"
    • May 12-  "Congratulations Class of 2023!"
    • May 19-  "Community GIS Class Helps Map Evictions in ACC"
  • April
    • April 7- "Research Spotlight- Dr. Deepak Mishra"
    • April 14- "Dr. Herod Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship" 
    • April 21- "2023 Undergraduate Honors & Award Recipients"
    • April 28- "Dr. Gengchen Mai Awarded 2023 AAG Nystrom Award"
  • March
    • March 3- "Introducing: The Weather Dawgs"
    • March 17- "2023 Globe Lecture" 
    • March 24- "Research Spotlight: Dr. Amy Trauger"
    • March 31- "Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Fausto Sarmiento's New Book"
  • February
    • February 3- "Alumni Spotlight: ATSC Alumni Featured in Georgia Magazine"
    • February 10- "Alumni Spotlight: Sarah Jackson Featured in Georgia Magazine" 
    • February 17- "Dr. Marshall Shepherd Moderates Discussion with Kamala Harris" 
    • February 24- "2023 Wheeler Lecture"
  • January

2022 - 

  • December 
  • November 
  • October 
    • October 7- "Reflecting On Hurricane Ian" 
    • October 14- "Honoring Linnentown: A Living Mosaic"
    • October 21- "Geography Open House In Review"
    • October 28- "Research Spotlight: Dr. Suzanne Birch Authors Two New Papers"
  • September
    • September 2- "Suzanne Birch Named Co-PI on National Science Foundation Grant" & "Internship Spotlight" 
    • September 9- "Dr. Andrew Herod Receives Jim Lewis Award" & "Jonathon Preece Attends Cryosphere 2022 Symposium" 
    • September 16- "Nik Heynen Leads Students at Penn Center Residency"
    • September 23- "Estefania Palacios Publishes New Paper" & "From the Weather Station"
    • September 30- "A Brief Conversation with Dr. Marshall Shepherd ahead of Hurricane Ian's Landfall" 
  • August 
    • August 19- "Welcome Back to Class" & "Distinguished UGA Alumnus, Dr. Derek Alderman named to US Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names"
    • August 26- "Weather to Bounce" & "UGA Geography in Orbit" 
  • June
    • June 3 - Bi-weekly headline: "'Tell the Whole Story': History of Slavery at UGA" and "National Academies Gulf of Mexico report"
    • June 17 - Bi-weekly headline: "CGR/DiGTL and Virtual Perception Laboratory receive two Learning Technologies Grants" and "Linnentown StoryMap Project"
    • June 30 - Bi-weekly headline: "Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador" and "UGA student wins AMS Washington Scholarship for third consecutive year"
  • May
    • May 20 - "Professor of Geography receives Fulbright U.S. Global Scholar Award to Austria, Japan, and Chile"
    • May 13 - "Congratulations, Class of 2022!"
    • May 6 - "Join us for Geography's Graduation Celebration!"

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