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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 Dissertation Prospectus Defense: “Integrating Local and Fishers’ Ecological Knowledge for Data-poor Marine Species Conservation: The Pacific Seahorse as a Case Study”
Jesus Alejandro Najera Medellin, PhD Student, ICON and Anthropology
Monday, November 2, 1:30 pm
Baldwin Hall, G-32 and on Zoom
The Struggle Over Native Land: Reckoning with the University of Georgia's Legacy
Monday, November 2, 5:30-7:00 PM
UGA Chapel. All are welcome to attend.
ICON Dissertation Prospectus Defense: “The Ecology of Segregation: Race, Biodiversity, and Lived Experience in Atlanta Parks”
Dominique Valentine, PhD Student, ICON and Anthropology
Tuesday, November 10, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Journalism Building, 510
ICON Coffee Hour
Friday, November 13, 10:00-11:00 AM
Warnell Building 4 Lobby. All are welcome to attend!
ICON Dissertation Prospectus Defense: “Living with the River: Ideas of the future, sense of place, and co-creation of risk communication in the River Arts District post-Helene"
Hannah Boone, PhD Student, ICON and Anthropology
Friday, November 13, 3:30 pm
Baldwin Hall, 202