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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Mapathon! Thank you to all who submitted their maps. We had 27 submissions this year. The categories were: Sustainability & Environmental Justice, Relationality & Community Engagement, Inclusivity & Diversity, Personal Exploration & Storytelling, Social Justice, and Innovation. With one Overall Best Map, one People's Choice, and a few Honorable Mentions.
A U.S.-Ukraine accord on a ceasefire proposal has put the notion of a negotiated end to the three-year war on the agenda, and in the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Â鶹ӰԺ's Geography Department is calling for maps that capture life affirming geographies - following Cindi Katz’s invitation for imagining Topographies of Hope (2001) and Sarah Elwood’s (2021) invitation for reading how social movements enact thriving otherwise, this Mapathon is an exercise in the active enactment of hope.
Sarah Posner was awarded the NSF Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award (HEGS-DDRI) for her project, 'The Role of Local Institutions in Managing Pastoralists' Natural Resources and Related Conflict in Northern Kenya’.
The Colorado Geographies event will feature a panel of community leaders, elders, and activists living, working, who express the everyday ways of enacting life affirming geographies in the here and now.
Practicing hope keeps the possibility of change alive—a methodology against fear in dismal times. And while the dismal touches all too many places in multiple registers these days, countertopography is a way of marking the common effects of, and responses to, large-scale processes in disparate locations.
CU Â鶹ӰԺ researchers Colleen Reid, Emma Rieves and their colleagues explored the potential impact of objective and perceived greenspace exposure on mental health
Aaron StrainÌýProfessor and Baker Ferguson Chair of PoliticsÌýWhitman CollegeÌýAbstract:ÌýDreams of "unf**king the planet" and "saving the world" with massive seaweed-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects
On Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through two communities just outside Â鶹ӰԺ, Colorado. In the span of about eight hours, more than 1,000 homes and businesses burned....
Kate Little has received the Injury and Violence Prevention Student Research Award from the Colorado School of Public Health for her project Understanding Drivers of Firearm Access Among Colorado American Indian Youth: