Adam Williams

Dinaburg Memorial Fellowships Awarded to Eight Students

Anonymous — Sat, 04 May 2013 02:50:17 +0000

Dinaburg Memorial Fellowships Awarded to Eight Students Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 05/03/2013 - 20:50

The 2013-2014 Dinaburg Memorial Fellowship recipients are: Kaitlin Fertaly Jamie Humphrey John Knowles Galen Murton Eric Reiff Amy Schubert Adam Williams Kathryn Wright

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Adam Williams receives NSF DDRI grant

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:01:48 +0000

Adam Williams receives NSF DDRI grant Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 08/29/2012 - 10:01

Adam Williams has won a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant from the National Science Foundation for $16,000. Adam's research project - titled "Informal Recycling as a Livelihood Strategy Among Recent Rural-Urban Migrants" - explores the ways rural migrants in Shanghai gain access to urban spaces through networks of informal street recycling and trash collecting.

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Adam Williams Receives CARTSS Smith Scholar Award

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:11:04 +0000

Adam Williams Receives CARTSS Smith Scholar Award Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/18/2011 - 20:11

Adam Williams received a $1000 Smith Scholar Award from the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) program.
See CARTSS Website for more info.

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Three Geography Grad Students Win Environment-Society Fellowships

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:24:31 +0000

Three Geography Grad Students Win Environment-Society Fellowships Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:24

Mason Auger, Abby Hickcox, and Adam Williams have been selected as the recipients of the Geography Department's new Environment-Society Fellowship. Funded by a generous gift to the department, each fellowship provides $12,000 to support research in environment-society relations. Mason Auger's project, "Native Attachments: American Indians and the Yellowstone Environment," explores the fought relationship between the US National Park Service and Native Americans in the context of Yellowstone National Park . Abby Hickcox's dissertation is titled "Open Space? Environmentalism and the Politics of Belonging in Boulder, Colorado" and focuses on the relationship between environmental and racial discourses by examining the politics of belonging constructed through local environmental narratives. Adam Williams' project is titled "Ordering modernity: Informal recycling in Shanghai, China" and examines how urban sustainability and environmental justice factor into the shifting relations between the state, the public and informal recyclers in China.

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Adam Williams Awarded a Graduate School Fellowship for Travel to AAG Conference

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:54:09 +0000

Adam Williams Awarded a Graduate School Fellowship for Travel to AAG Conference Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 03/03/2011 - 09:54

Adam was awarded a Graduate School fellowship for travel to annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Seattle, April 12-16, 2011 ($300).

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Adam Williams Awarded UGGS Travel Grant

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:53:06 +0000

Adam Williams Awarded UGGS Travel Grant Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 03/03/2011 - 09:53

Adam was awarded a travel grant from the United Government of Graduate Students (UGGS). The award will be used for travel to the Association of American Geographers annual conference in Seattle, April 12-16, 2011 ($300).

UGGS is the primary advocacy group for graduate and professional students on the CU-Boulder campus. UGGS is committed to enhancing the graduate student experience at the University by interacting with the University administration and the University of Colorado Student Union (UCSU) concerning issues such as financial aid, graduate stipends, health care, tuition and fees and graduate student well-being. Graduate students from each department and program are solicited to serve on the UGGS Assembly, ensuring a diverse and complete representation of the graduate student body.

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Gamma Theta Upsilon wins trivia bowl

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:36:30 +0000

Gamma Theta Upsilon wins trivia bowl Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/04/2010 - 10:36

Proving that there is no better discipline for 'Jeopardy' training, the Geography Department's GTU (Gamma Theta Upsilon) team won first place at the 2nd annual UGGS (United Government of Graduate Students) trivia competition.
See UGGS and GTU for more information.

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