DePaul GEO senior, Owen Bomba, accepting the 2023 Outstanding Senior award at the Illinois Geographical Society awards banquet in Springfield, IL
Congratulations to GEO Senior, Owen Bomba, Recipient of the Illinois Geographical Society's Outstanding Senior Geography Major Award.
Congratulations to Lily Baird, Nils Berglund, and Alexey Chekanov, Recipients of the 2022-23 Betty Leahy Travel Scholarship
With the scholarship, Lily, Nils, and Alexey will travel to the Denver, CO for the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers in March 2023.
2022 West Lakes-East Lakes AAG Divisional Conference. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. October 20-22, 2022.
AAG Council Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Presentation:
Owen Bomba - Zombies and Ghosts: The critique of modern urban development with apparitional language
Undergraduate Research Paper Presentation:
First Place, Nils Berglund - Private promotion on public space: Examining public-private partnerships in existing Chicago parks
Owen Bomba (left) and Nils Berglund
2021 West Lakes-East Lakes AAG Divisional Conference. University of Toledo (online conference)
AAG Council Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Presentation:
Jenni Nguyen - Chronic Illness & Energy Negotiation: Revisiting Cultural Ecology in Exploring New Avenues for Disabled Geographies
Undergraduate Research Paper Presentation:
First Place, Sammy Curley - Dog Parks and Gentrification on Chicago’s south side
Second Place, Jennifer Ovist - “Fantasy Landscapes”: Rural Cemeteries as Placemaking and Social Reform
Third Place, Luigi Cutolo - La città della Monnezza: The story of waste, mafias, politics, and environmental justice in Naples, Italy
2020 West Lakes AAG Divisional Conference (online)
AAG Council Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student
Michael Cullen - Skateboarding, Urban Public Space, and Identity
Undergraduate oral presentation
3rd place, Annalise Sedlacek - COVID-19 and Gentrification in New York City
Undergraduate poster
2nd place, Kevin Stock - Monitoring Nauset-Monomoy Barrier Islands and Sediment Processes along Chatham, Massachusetts using Remote Sensing Techniques
3rd place, Evan Breedlove - Wealth Creation in Redlined Lincoln Park