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Message From the Chair
September 2025
Welcome to the new academic year. I am absolutely delighted to say that, all things considered, the department is doing very well. We continue to secure external funding to support our research, we have welcomed a new cohort of talented graduate students, and our current graduate students are completing and defending their dissertations at an accelerated rate. Even though the conditions are very challenging, GEOG is strong and we continue to carry out our mission.
We are also exceptionally fortunate to have marvelous benefactors who have made the most generous $1,100,000 gift to support our graduate students and early-career scientists. Dr. Jingli Yang and Dr. Peter Li have established the Endowed Distinguished Fellowship in Geographical Sciences, supplemented by the Current-Use Distinguished Fellowship in Geographical Sciences. This fellowship will provide flexible, high-impact funding to empower graduate students and early career investigators to pursue independent, cutting-edge research in remote sensing and its applications.
THANK YOU, Drs. Yang and Li, from the bottom of our collective GeoTerp hearts!
Tatiana Loboda
GEOG Chair and Professor
