2005
Faculty 
- Anna Secor won a 2005 Provost Teaching Award for her excellence in teaching. Click here for more information.
- Political Geography Specialty Group of the AAG has established the Stanley D. Brunn Young Scholar Award, named in honor for Stan Brunn, which is given to an individual who has received her/his Ph.D. within the past ten years in honor of contributions that have generated new interest in the subfield and/or opened up new areas of inquiry for political geographic research.
- Tad Mutersbaugh has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Mexico next year.
- Anna Secor's promotion to Associate Professor, with Tenure, has been approved by the Provost.
- Alice Turkington has received a Summer Research Fellowship from the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky.
- Matthew Zook and Thomas Leinbach have been awarded an NSF Geography-Regional Science Program grant for for a three year project on "Connecting Cyberspace to Place: Understanding the Evolution of Transactions and Value Chains in Electronic Commerce." This innovative project will emphasize the forms, processes, and geographies of E-commerce across a set of US manufacturing firms.
Graduate Student, Alumni, and Undergraduate
- David Correia has been awarded an US Community Forestry Research Fellowship for his dissertation research entitled "Making the forest a factory: the nature of sustained yield forestry in New Mexico."
- Josh Lepawsky has accepted a two-year appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Geography at University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
- Zach Musselman was awarded Graduate Student Research Awards from the Geological Society of America to support his dissertation research.
- Ben Smith has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research grant for his dissertation research entitled "Landscape and the Production of Attractive Markets in Dubai."
- Deborah Thompson has been awarded a James Brown Graduate Student Research Award from the University of Kentucky Appalachian Center to support her dissertation research.
- Sya Buryn has been awarded a Study Abroad grant to enable her to study Hindi in India..
- David Correia has been awarded a UK Dissertation Year Fellowship by the University of Kentucky Graduate School.David Correia has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research grant for his dissertation research entitled "Making the Forest a Factory: the Nature of Sustained Yield Forestry in New Mexico."
- John Hintz has accepted a tenure track position in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania.
- Linda Martin and Jeff West have both been awarded Presidential Fellowship for the academic year 2005-06.
- Michael Pryce-Jones has won a competitive internship at CERES, an Boston-based organization dedicated to encouraging corporate environmental responsibility.
- Daniel Turner, an undergraduate student, has received an undergraduate Research Award to conduct research this summer with Sue Roberts and Professor Breathnach in Ireland on entrepreneurship and the geography of recent Irish economic growth.
2004 Faculty
- Betsy Taylor has been appointed co-director of the UK Environmental Studies Program, and now associate member of the UK Graduate School.
- Postdoctoral Fellow Kathleen O'Reilly has accepted an appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Geography at the University of Illinois.
- Matt Zook has been selected to participate in a RCTF research program that matches faculty members with an African-American undergraduate student for an summer research project. Matt's student will be Rickey H. Pack, Jr.
- Effective July 1, Wolfgang Natter 's promotion to Professor has been approved by the Administration.Postdoctoral Fellow Kathleen O'Reilly has accepted an appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Geography at the University of Illinois.
- Matt Zook has been selected to participate in a RCTF research program that matches faculty members with an African-American undergraduate student for an summer research project. Matt's student will be Rickey H. Pack, Jr.
- Lynn Phillips has been confirmed to fill a vacancy on the LFUCG Planning Commission.
Graduate Students
- David Correia won the first prize on Student Paper Competition at the ELDAAG meeting.
- Postdoctoral Fellow Kathleen O'Reilly has accepted an appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Geography at the University of Illinois.
- Linda Martin has been awarded a Science to Achieve Results (STAR) fellowship from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 2004-2005.Linda Martin has been awarded a Best graduate student paper award by AAG Geomorphology Specialty Group.Matt McCourt has been offered and has accepted an assistant professor (tenure track) position in resource Geography and land use/regional planning beginning in the Fall at University of Maine, Farmington.Kyonghwan Park has been awarded a the Nam Yong Scholarship from the Nam Yong Foundation.Ben Smith has been awarded an Presidential Fellowship for his academic year 2004-05.
- Jeff West has been awarded a FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) fellowship to attend the Summer Turkish language program at the Ohio State University.
- Marcia England has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research grant for her dissertation research entitled "Patrolling Citizenship: Urban Policings of Prostitution and Drug Trafficking."John Hintz and Josh Lepawsky have been awarded an Dissertation Year Fellowship for their dissertation research.
- Kyong-Hwan Park has been awarded a Dissertation Enhancement Award from the Graduate School for his dissertation research.
Alumni
- UK Geography alumni Paul Kingsbury has accepted a faculty position at Simon Fraser University.
- UK Geography alumni Darren Purcell has accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Oklahoma.
- UK Geography Alumni Rebecca Glasscock has been the Carolyn Beam Faculty Award at the Lexington Community College Graduation ceremony on May 8th. The award is based upon nominations coming from the LCC faculty and so represents the highest caliber of achievement among that faculty cadre.UK Geography Alumni Vincent Del Casino, Jr. (Department of Geography, California State University-Long Beach) has won the first annual Glenda Laws Award given by the Association of American Geographers for activist-scholarship in geography .
- UK Geography Alumni Susan Mains (Department of Geography, University of West Indies) was featured by Jamaica Observer. Click here to see the whole article.
2003
Faculty, Graduate, Alumni, and Undergraduate
- Marcia England has been selected as an editor of the journal disClosure 14.Tom Leinbach has been invited to serve as a member of the National Science Foundation strategic planning committee for Geography and Regional Science.
- Viva Nordberg has been awarded a Helen and John S. Best Fellowship by the American Geographical Society.
- John Watkins as been named to the National Science Foundation Senior Advisory Panel, Geography and Regional Science, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, for a two year term starting next month.
- Undergraduate student Joshua Wentz has won a National Geographic Society Internship for spring semester, 2004.
- Jeff West won a Master's Honors Paper Competition (John Fraser Hart Award) at this year's SEDAAG meeting in Charlotte for his paper entitled Turkey's Changing Dimensions of Conflict: Geographical Analysis of the 1999 Elections.
- Karl Raitz was appointed by the Governer Paul Patton as official Kentucky State Geographer.
- Wolfgang Natter received a research award from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst zu einem Studien-und Forschungsaufenthalt in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ein.
- Jonathan Phillips, Basil Gomez (Indiana State University), and Paul Bierman (University of Vermont) won a $250,000 NSF Grant for their project entitled Sediment Production and Alluvial Buffering in a Steepland River Basin--Waipoa River, New Zealand.
- Susan Roberts, John Paul Jones III, Oliver Froehling won a $150,000 NSF Geography and Regional Science Grant for their project entitled Transnational Networks of Non Governmental Organizations.
- Sarah Moore won a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project entitled The Politics of Garbage.Jamie Winders won a NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project entitled Latino (Im)migration to the Upper South.Paul Kingsbury won the second-place prize of $100 from the Recreation, Tourism,and Sports Specialty Group's student paper competition at the AAG meetings in New Orleans this year.Lester Miller won a Wethington Fellowship and a Zolondek Fellowship from the Gaines program at UK.Jean Lavigne accepted a position as assistant professor at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.
- Margo Kleinfeld accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
- Keiron Bailey accepted a three-year position as Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Arizona.
- Dick Ulack received the Distinguished Service Award from the Asian Geography Specialty Group at the AAG meetings in New Orleans.
- Colin Kearney has been named as a Student Ambassador for the College of Arts & Sciences.Matt Zook received a Summer Faculty Research Fellowship Committee Award from the University of Kentucky for Summer 2003.Michael Crutcher accepted a position as assistant professor of Geography and African-American Studies at the University of Kentucky.Edward Carr accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of South Carolina.Paul Kingsbury accepted a position as visiting assistant professor at Miami University.
- Jamie Winders won a Dissertation Year Fellowship from the University of Kentucky for 2003-2004.
- John Hintz won a Graduate School Dissertation Enhancement Award for the year 2003.
- Jim Seaver, geography major (dual major in History), was selected as this year's Edward T. Breathitt Undergraduate Lecturer. Jim gave his lecture on "Unmasking the Angel of Death--The Life and Work of Josef Mengele" at the W. T. Young Library auditorium and received a $500 prize and a mysterious gift wrapped in silver paper.
- Kathleen O'Reilly has been selected by the Association of American Geographers as this year's finalist of the Nystrom Dissertation Award Competition. She will present her paper, "Developing Contradictions: Women's Participation as a Site of Struggle within an Indian NGO," will be presented in the J. Warren Nystrom Dissertation Competition: Session II on Thursday, 3/6/2003 at 10:00AM.
2002
Faculty, Graduate, Alumni, and Undergraduate
- Josh Lepawsky won a dissertation research grant funded by the National Science Foundation's Science and Technology Studies Program for his research on "Digital Aspirations: The Multimedia Super Corridor and Malaysian National Development."
- Josh Lepawsky has been selected by the American Geographical Society as this year's recipient of the McColl Family Fellowship
- Paul Kingsbury won the Endowed Doctoral Fellowship Award from the Emeriti Faculty at the University of Kentucky for his dissertation work.
- Keiron Bailey won the John Fraser Hart Award for best paper at the meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers in Richmond, VA in November,2002 for the second year in a row.
- Mitchell Snider has been selected as a National Geographic Society Intern for 2003 in Washington, DC.
- James Hanlon won a HUD Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant with his dissertation research "Distressed Public Housing and HOPE VI Revitalization: An Analysis of Park DuValle in Louisville, Kentucky.
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