Department News New Position Open: Climate and/or Environmental Change at the Regional to Global Scale (10/7/08) New Position Open: South Asia (9/25/08) Award: Chris Fuhrmann awarded the Wiesnet Medal Award (6/5/08) News: Martin Doyle Addresses Need to Examine NC Water & Sewer Infrastructure (5/27/08) News: Counter Cartographies Collective in the Independent (5/23/08) Award:Geography Ph.D. student wins Council for European Studies award (4/15/08) Global Site: Our very own Steve Walsh and Carlos Mena featured on the new Global website (2/1/08) News: Martin Doyle in current issue of Science and on Discovery Channel News (01/23/08) New Book: Pickles publishes new book: State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies (01/23/08) College of Arts and Science:Birdsall featured at Institute of the Arts and Humanities (12/5/07) College of Arts and Science: Where in the world is Steve Birdsall (12/5/07) Award: Steve Walsh receives Lifetime Achievement Award (11/30/07) NPR Interview: Larry Band interviewed on the drought by NPR (10/24/07) Grant: Emch and Moody have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant (09/28/07) Grant: Emch and Band have been awarded a National Institutes of Health RO1 grant (09/28/07) Fellowship: Banu Gokariksel has been awarded a faculty fellowship (09/04/07) Grant: Banu Gokariksel has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant (09/04/07) AAG Paper Award: Gregory Taff won Specialty Group paper award (04/23/07) AAG Paper Award: Clark Gray won 2 best paper awards (04/23/07) Climate Center: Peter Robinson and Chip Konrad successfully competing for the Southeastern Regional Climate Center (04/09/2007) Fellowship: Catherine Shields and Maggie Carrel receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (03/29/07) Teaching Awards: Professors Steve Birdsall and John Florin win teaching awards (02/26/07) Interview: NPR interview with Jim Fraser on flood hazard (09/08/06) Grant: New grant on landslides to Larry Band and Martin Doyle (08/29/06) Grant: Dissertation Fellowship (08/29/06).