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Environmental Sustainability Students Travel to Norway’s Annual Arctic Frontiers Conference

Up to $160 million available over the next 10 years to build climate-resilient communities in the Colorado-Wyoming region

When it comes to talking about values, it is clear that David Barillas Chón’s, Ph.D., priorities are about the community. Barillas Chón was recently hired as an assistant professor in the Chicana/o and Latinx Studies Department (CLAS) at the University of Northern Colorado.

Guest speakers bring a change of pace to any learning environment. In the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, two professors walk into a classroom, but it’s a high school classroom: Kyle Anne Nelson, Ph.D., MPH, professor and chair of the Sociology department and Chris Talbot, Ph.D., professor of Gender Studies.

Political Science Professor Receives Prestigious U.S. Fulbright Award

UNC welcomes three new deans from across the university, with each one bringing strengths and new vision to their roles.

Karen Barton, professor of Geography, GIS and Sustainability, took 14 UNC students up to Estes Park for a hands-on workshop titled “Careers in National Parks and Protected Areas.”

Joining the university in 1994 as an assistant professor of geography, Jim Doerner, a full professor of Geography, GIS, and Sustainability, became permanent dean in April 2023 for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).

Five years out, people with humanities degrees are making equivalent money to people from a STEM discipline. The kinds of things that folks in the humanities and the arts develop are the very things that corporations want in their employees

To meet the increasing demand for new GIS and drone technologies, the Department of Geography, GIS and Sustainability is launching two new GIS certificates in fall 2023, GIS and Cartography and Drone Operations and Spatial Analytics.