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Ravic Nijbroek, PhD student, has won the Graduate Research Paper Award for best paper based on field research at the Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference 2012 at the University of Kentucky. The paper he presented was titled “Normative Adaptation to Sea Level Rise: Discourse, Environmental Knowledge and Adaptation Policies in Suriname.” Click here for further details.
Dr. Pratyusha Basu has co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability (2012, Volume 10, No. 2) titled ‘Technological and Social Dimensions of the Green Revolution: Connecting Pasts and Futures,’ and contributed a co-authored article on ‘Crop-Livestock Systems in Rural Development: Linking India’s Green and White Revolutions.’ Click here for further details.
Dr. Fenda Akiwumi's paper Strangers, Indigenous Land Rights, and Conflict in African Mining Areas was selected for presentation in a peer-review process for presentation at the 9th Internation Mining History Congress (IMHC) in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 17-20, 2012. Click here for more information.
Dr. Pratyusha Basu has been awarded a Fulbright research grant for a project titled Cattle and Cash: Value of Women's Work in Kenya's Smallholder Dairy Program. She will be conducting field research over Spring and Summer 2013 and will be affiliated with the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi. For more information, click here.
Trina Halfhide, a 2009 graduate of the ESP program currently working on her Ph.D. in Engineering Science, was one of five USF students awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. She will be conducting research at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Trina's thesis Mercury perception, community awareness and sustainability implications for the Tampa Bay region, Florida was supervised by Dr. Fenda Akiwumi.
Shaza Hussein, a junior Honors College student majoring in Environmental Science & Policy and Chemistry, is USF's first recipient of the Udall Scholarship awarded for commitment to the environment.
Dr. Njoh recently authored 8 peer-reviewed articles appearing in the International Journal of Urban & Regional Research; Planning & Development; Habitat International; Development; Social Indicators Research; and Cities. Click here for more information on these and other forthcoming works.
Dr. Chakraborty recently published 2 articles in a special issue of American Journal of Public Health on environmental justice and health disparities, and 2 chapters in a new book Geospatial Analysis of Environmental Health. Click here for more information.
Dr. Pu recently published 5 journal articles: 3 in the International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1 in Remote Sensing of Environment, and 1 in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Click here for more information.
Dr. Chakraborty receives multi-year research grant from NSF. Click here for more information.
Dr. Chakraborty and Dr. Bosman's edited book receives critical acclaim from top-tier journal in Geography. For more information, click here.
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