GSS Prof Margaret Carrel wins 2017 Emerging Scholar Award from AAG's Health & Medical Geography specialty group

Monday, April 24, 2017

Margaret Carrel
Margaret Carrel

University of Iowa Professor Margaret Carrel won the 2017 Emerging Scholar Award from the Health & Medical Geography specialty group of the American Association of Geographers.

The award seeks to recognize early career scholars who show significant potential for distinguished scholarship in health and/or medical geography.

Carrel is an assistant professor in the Department of Geographical & Sustainability Sciences, part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Her research centers on exploring geographic patterns of health and disease using GIS and spatial statistical techniques. The focus of her current research is to understand how complex interactions between people and environments result both in disease outcomes and the progressive evolution of human pathogens.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.