News & Events
News & Events
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Students present at the 2013 Midwestern Undergraduate Geography Symposium
Recent Student Grants
Annie L’Heureux: Young Scholars Grant - Alternative Development: Using GIS to Determine the Correlation Between Urban Villages and Property Value Growth in the Twin Cities. $4,000.
Julie Rech: Community Based Research Scholar Award. Partnering with the Great River Greening. $4,000.
Fartun Dire: McNair Scholar Award. Examining Settlement Patterns of the Somali Population through the Use of Mental Maps. $4,000.
2011
Awarded $15,000 Campus Sustainability Grant. Student Restoration of Oak Forest: Analyzing Carbon Storage in a Recovering Landscape. Written with Simon Emms, Tim Lewis and Theresa Wondra.
Chia Lee: McNair Scholar Award. Health Care Accessibility for the Twin Cities Hmong Community.
2010
Awarded $3,500 for purchase of smart power strips for dorm rooms in Brady Hall. Pepsi Grant written with Environmental Studies students
Faculty advisor on a $4,000 Community Based Research Grant. Partnering with the Parks and Trails Council of Minnesota.
2009
Awarded $15,000 for the installation of the first solar panels on campus. Pepsi Grant written with Environmental Studies students.
Renee Huset was awarded a $4,000 Young Scholars Grant for our project: Using Geographic Information Systems to Understand Minnesota’s Carbon Landscape. She was also awarded a $1,500 Collaborative Inquiry Grant for our project: Targeting Degraded Forestlands for Carbon Offset Projects.
Last semester, Fartun Dirie, a junior geography major, got inspired in Dr. Paul Lorah’s Human Geography Class, where she was introduced to “mental maps,” geographic visual tools used to show how people perceive their environments. Later, with the help of a Summer Housing Grant through the McNair Scholars program, and advising guidance from Lorah, Dirie was able to develop her idea of mental mapping Somalis living in the Twin Cities. more...
"UST Takes a Nice Ride"Written by Conservation Geography students, this $20,000 grant proposal would fund the purchase of 666 annual Nice Ride subscriptions – 250 would be distributed to incoming freshmen, the rest to other members of the UST community. more...
