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CICR Newsletter – Summer 2025
Our annual Center for Integrative Conservation Research newsletter, highlighting some of the achievements of our community over the last year, is now available. Read it here!
ICON 8002 Practicum: New Iterationsof the ICON-EBCI Partnership
ICON 8110 students visit Kituwah, the Cherokee Mother Town, in April with EBCI Forest Manager Josh Parris (Image: Laura German) By Laura German During this academic year, two ICON cohorts worked in...
CICR celebrates the 2024-25 ICON graduates
Congratulations to the following students on defending their Integrative Conservation dissertations this year: Rachel Arney, PhD, ICON & Geography, “The Politics of Environmental Knowledge...
Kristen Morrow Receives Dissertation Completion Award
Kristen Morrow was awarded the Dissertation Completion Award for the 2025-2026 academic year. This competitive award from the UGA Graduate School provides support to doctoral candidates in the final...
2025-26 ICSO Board Announced
Congratulations to the newly elected 2025-2026 Integrative Conservation Student Organization (ICSO) Board! These positions will be effective May 1. ICSO Co-Chair: Ravneet Kaur and Bhavya Iyer ICC...
New research looks at the future of conservation training
Amit Kaushik (ICON & Anthropology PhD candidate) recently co-authored two papers published in Conservation Biology: Dietsch, A. M., Selinske, M. J., van Eeden, L. M., Blount-Hill, K.-L.,...
Upcoming Events
ICON Defense
Tuesday, March 3, 3:00 PM
“Embodied Adaptation: Community-Driven Sea Level Rise and Resilience Planning in Coastal Georgia”
Jill Gambill, ICON & Geography PhD Candidate
Geography/Geology Building, Room 0155
ICON Defense
Friday, March 6, 11:00 AM
“Borderland Relationality and Multispecies Co-flourishing: Ethical, Political, and Ecological Entanglements near the Korean Demilitarized Zone”
Shinyeong Park, ICON & Forestry and Natural Resources PhD Candidate
Warnell Building 4, Room 132
ICON Coffee Hour
Friday, March 20, 10:00-11:00 AM
Join ICON students and faculty for coffee and conversation!
Warnell 4-301




