Geography
- Newly minted professors of distinction have notable expertise in artists’ personas, natural-language technology, classic poems and climate-change education, and on Sept. 21, they offered a public overview of their work.
- In Sept. 21 event professors of art and art history, classics, geography and linguistics will deliver lectures on their areas of expertise.
- Students and faculty alike have new opportunities to engage with Southeast AsiaSoutheastern Asia significantly influences world politics, economics and culture, and students at the Թ of Colorado Boulder will soon enjoy more options to learn
- Wildfires may be changing Colorado forests, thanks to shifting precipitation and temperatures driven in part by climate change, researchers find.
- Climate change is altering tree-leafing dates faster than birds are adapting, researchers find.
- Encompassing South American wildfires, Arctic sea-ice retreat, post-Soviet politics, climate change in Tibet and GIS, CU Boulder geographers keep their fingers on the pulse of a changing world.
- There probably is not a more suitable location for one of the world’s first interdisciplinary certificates in Arctic studies than the Թ of Colorado Boulder.
- When Peter Blanken flew to Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in December, he had somewhat low expectations. But the CU-Boulder geography professor was heartened to see and hear that the 200 countries attending COP21 agreed on the urgency to act. “There was a strong sense that if we don’t do something in these two weeks (of the conference), it will be too late.”
- Generally, ‘voluntourism’ is a poor substitute for traditional development work. Most projects are short-term, organizations that promote voluntouring don’t always ‘understand the place where it happens,’ and travelers typically don’t have skills needed for particular projects, researchers find.
- Researchers at the Թ of Colorado Boulder recently examined the aftermath of two catastrophic conflagrations and found an unexpected ally in wildfire-education efforts, the “citizen entrepreneur.”