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GGIS grad student, GD Kim, receives Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Fellowship

PhD student, Gyudae "GD" Kim, was recently named a Jeremiah Sullivan Graduate Fellow by The Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security...

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Study examines how location privacy concerns shape crowdsourced socio-environmental data

A resident installs an air-quality sensor outside their home, hoping to contribute to a growing network of citizen-collected environmental data. But before making the information public, they drag the sensor’s location pin on the digital map slightly down the street.That small act of digital self-...

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Graduate students receive IGI fellowships, awards

The Illinois Global Institute has selected two graduate students from the Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science to receive research awards and language fellowships.Graduate Summer...

The double life: GGIS undergraduate Jess Johnson double majors with history

What happens at the end of science? Philosophy?It is the kind of question that can pause a conversation. Not because science fails, and not because philosophy is waiting at the edge of the laboratory to correct it, but because every discipline, if you follow it far enough, begins to run into its...

Mark Lara and Zhuoxuan Xia standing in front of a digital display.

Team tracks vegetation recovery from sudden permafrost collapse

Some Arctic regions regain their “greenness” within a decade of a sudden permafrost collapse, while others can take a century or more to recover, researchers report in a new study. The difference is directly related to each site’s gross primary productivity, a measure of its photosynthetic capacity...

Jordan McAlister in front of a waterfall.

Meet Jordan McAlister: A Q&A with GGIS’ newest professor and advisor

Jordan McAlister is a human geographer with interests in the built environment, historical geography, and historic preservation. A native of Texas, he has long taken an interest in the cultural and regional geographies of...

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