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Flach wins thesis award

The AAG's Critical Geographies of Education Awards Committee voted unanimously to present Jessica Flach with its 2025 thesis award for her thesis, Between Florida and the World: Young People and the Politics of Citizenship. Bravo, Jessica!

Barnes awarded Guggenheim

USC professor Jessie Barnes was named as a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

DeBoom paper recognized

Meredith DeBoom was awarded the Virginie Mamadouh Outstanding Research Award from the Political Geography Specialty Group of the AAG for her article, "Climate Necropolitics", in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. This award recognizes an article that “makes an innovative, original contribution to the conceptual and/or methodological embrace of political geography.”

Malkoc wins award to dissertation research

Bianca Malkoc was awarded a Field Study Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Specialty Group of the AAG. The $750 award will support her preliminary dissertation research on the geopolitical ecology of shipping at the Port of Los Angeles.

Eramus Mundus scolarship to geography grad

Kate Barnwell, a 2023 geography graduate, has been awarded an Eramus Mundus scholarship to work on a joint master's degree in sustainable forest and nature management at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Padua.

Susan Cutter doubly honored

Susan Cutter has been elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the National Academy of Sciences this spring. Already a fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she is the first faculty member at USC to achieve all three honors.

USC Geography and Geographers in the News

• [Cutter] Turmoil, worry swirl over cuts to key federal agencies as hurricane season begins
• [Mock] ‘Helene-driven spike’ increased occupancy rates for Columbia hotels
• [Dow] NOAA funds much of SC’s climate research. What’s at stake if the agency is gutted?
• [Cutter] Trump, Musk want to curb FEMA. Its North Carolina response says volumes.
• [Potter & Spires] Protecting South Carolina -- from emergency preparedness to brain health
• [Mock] Hurricane science: Key advances in tracking the deadly storms
• [Mock]  How Hurricane Helene became a deadly disaster across six states
• [Cutter] How did South Carolina state leaders handle Helene? Depends on who you ask
• [Dow] How Columbia plans to mitigate its urban heat island
• [Cutter and Mock] Hurricane season is reaching its peak. Here's some ways local experts say students can stay prepared
• [Carbone] Cool waters, the jet stream and La Niña: What South Carolina could see this winter
• [Cutter] USC professor studying disaster recovery named to prestigious National Academy of Sciences
• [Kang] New projects explore AI in art and science 
• [Mock] Is a November hurricane likely? History says probably not
• [Cutter] Fires and other disasters are increasing in Hawaii, according to this AP data analysis
• [Geog alums] The planning before the storm: USC geography graduates help guide state, nation through hurricane season
• [Dow] Feeling the heat? USC study reveals areas in Columbia should worry about summer weather
• [Cutter] What's in a hurricane name? It depends
• [Mock] Record highs: Ocean heatwave and climate change
• [Cutter] The US leads the world in weather catastrophes. Here's why
• [Mock] SC spared brunt of hurricane season, but experts predict stronger storms in the future
• [DeBoom] Lessons in geography — and global citizenship

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Photo: Sedimentation fieldwork at the McCrady Base in Columbia; Michael Hodgson.