In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Andrei Rogers

Gabriela Rocha Sales — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:39:47 +0000

In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Andrei Rogers Gabriela Rocha Sales Mon, 08/31/2026 - 15:39

On August 18, 2026 Professor Emeritus Andrei Rogers passed away at the age of 88. Andrei taught at the University of Colorado Boulder Geography Department from 1983 to 2007, he was the Director of the Population Program at the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) from 1983 to 2003.

Notable Awards:

Awarded the Walter Isard Award for Distinguished Lifetime Scholarly Achievement from the North American Regional Science Association (2000).
Invited to the International Geographical Union Regional Congress (2006) for his contributions to the quantitative revolution in human geography in the 1960s.
Awarded the Mindel C. Sheps Award for his outstanding contributions to mathematical demography, demographic methodology, and the modeling and analysis of population data (2018).

In 2018, Andrei wrote a memoir, But in my case. An immigrant’s life story (iUniverse, 2018).

See Andrei Rogers' obituary from the Daily Camera.

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