Geography Career Panel Recap

Thanks to all of those who helped make last week’s Geography career panel a success – especially our alumni panelists Angelo Taylor, Ed McCormack, Frank Leonard, Tee-Ta Walker, and Jason Milstead. While each panelist has followed very different career paths, they all stressed the numerous ways in which a background in Geography helped prepare Click to Read More

Colloquium: Tom Koch on Mapping, Public Health, and Ethics

Join us this Friday, February 3rd at 3:30pm in room Smith 304 for an exciting talk by medical geography and historian Tom Koch. The talk, entitled “Mapping Medicine, Making Science: thinking about ethics and public disease” will examine the roles that maps and mapping play in disease studies (for more details, see the abstract Click to Read More

Geography Career Panel

Mark your calendars for a Geography alumni career panel on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2:30-4:00 in Smith 409. Confirmed panelists are listed below, and one or two others may also be able to make it. Topics will include: what people do all day at these workplaces;  skills that successful job applicants bring to Click to Read More

Real To Reel Film Series: The Last Train Home: Feb. 9

The R2R series returns this quarter with a free showing of The Last Train Home, in the Allen Library Auditorium at 3:30pm on Thursday, February 9. The film indelibly portrays one family caught up in the midst of China’s annual New Year’s mass migration from the huge urban centers back to rural villages. (Professor Click to Read More