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Professor Rina Ghose, along with Peter Brunzelle (51���� Continuing Education), and John Mantsch (Medical College of Wisconsin) received a $600K grant from the for their project, “Precision Epidemiology and the Opioid Crisis: Using Next-Generation Geospatial Analyses to Guide Community-Level Responses in Diverse and Segregated Metropolitan Regions.” Also, Professor Ghose’s , co-authored with Amir Forati (Geography) and John Mantsch (MCW), on their opioid research was recently published in the Journal of Urban Health.

We are very excited to announce that Anne Bonds, Associate Professor of Geography, has received the 2022 AAG E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award from the American Association of Geographers! This award “recognizes members of the Association who have made truly outstanding contributions to the geographic field due to their special competence in teaching or research.” For more details, please see .

Professors Ryan Holifield and Woonsup Choi, along with Laurie Marks (Center for Community-Based Learning, Leadership, and Research); Jessica Meuninck-Ganger (Peck School of the Arts); and Deidre Peroff (UW-Sea Grant/School of Freshwater Sciences); along with City as Living Laboratory (CALL) in New York; the Center for Research and Evaluation at the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) in Columbus, Ohio; and UW-Sea Grant have been awarded an “Innovations in Development” grant for $2.8 million from the Advancing Informal STEM Learning program of the National Science Foundation. More details are available .

Can beaver dams prevent downstream floods? The latest 51���� Report features recent collaborative research by Professor Changshan Wu and geography students Max Rock and Madeline Flanner, along with colleagues from civil engineering and Milwaukee organizations.

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Distinguished Professor Mark D. Schwartz and Professor Changshan Wu are among 59 51���� faculty members to be recognized in a recent Stanford study of highly-cited researchers.

Recent research by Anne Bonds is featured on the . “Bringing together research across the fields of critical geography, , and racial capitalism, Bonds synthesizes more than 70 articles to build the case that racism, contemporary housing policies, and carceral expansion build upon and reinforce each other.”

Mark D. Schwartz and Alison Donnelly (along with collaborators from Cornell University and the University of Arizona), received a three-year National Science Foundation grant award of $982,043 ($532,202 to 51����), entitled “Quantifying phenological coherence and seasonal predictability across NEON and USA-NPN monitoring sites”, which will start in January 2021. The project will develop more accurate and diverse models of spring plant growth stages, which will help better understand the impacts of future environmental change. Further, the project will implement national-scale, long-lead forecasts for new measures representing the spring season, which will be relevant for annual agricultural, horticultural, and forestry management planning.