Geography News

August 2008
Professor Antony Orme was elected to the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences.

July 2008
Professor Glen MacDonald's research on the Mideast Drought and Fall in Syrian Wheat Harvest is featured on CNN.

March 2008
Professor Glen MacDonald has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2008-2009.

August 2007
Professor John Agnew received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award for 2007 and is elected Vice-President of the Association of American Geographers (2007-8).

Professor Laurence Smith has been awarded a 2007 John D. Rockefeller Bellagio Residency.

November 2006
Professor Glen MacDonald has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

April 2006
Professor Laurence Smith awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Award.

March 2006
Professor Allen Scott's book entitled On Hollywood: The Place, the Industry, published by Princeton University Press, has been selected to receive the 2005 AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography.

Professor David Rigby has won a UCLA Teaching Award!

Professor John Agnew has been given the Association of American Geographers Distinguished Scholarship Award for 2006. His book, Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power (Temple University Press) has also received the prestigious Choice Academic Title Award for 2005. Choice is the journal of the American Library Association.

February 2006

Professor Stanley Trimble has won the 2006 Melvin Marcus Distinguished Career Award, presented by the Geomorphology Specialty Group of the AAG!

June 2005
Dr. William A.V. Clark is elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

February 2005
Dr. Cindy Fan gives the J. Douglas Eyre Distinguished Lecture at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has also been awarded a three-year research grant from the National Science Foundation for the project Migration, Policy, and Household Strategies in China, 1985-2004.

February 2005
Dr. William A.V. Clark recieves 2005 Decade of Behaviour Research Award.

April 2004
Dr. Judy Carney awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Dr. Judy Carney received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.

March 2004
Dr. Allen Scott has been awarded The de Fermat Chair at the University of Toulouse. It is a visiting chair for the period coinciding with our Spring Quarter, 2005.

March 2004
Dr. Glen MacDonald has won The 2004 Henry C. Cowles Award for Excellence in Publication from the Biogeography Specialty Group of the AAG for his book," Biogeography - Space, Time and Life ",published by John Wiley and Sons.

June 2003
Dr. Allen Scott has been awarded the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize(also called the unofficial ,"Nobel Prize in Geography") The prize will be officially presented at the International Geography Festival in France on October 3, 2003.

May 2003
Dr. Glen MacDonald was awarded an Astor Visiting Lectureship at Oxford University.

May 2003
Dr. Agnew has won a Guggenheim Fellowship; one of only three such awards won at UCLA this year.