Geography Undergraduates Win Academic Honors

Congratulations to our students for some stellar academic achievements:

Helen Olsen, Mary Gates Research Scholar, for her project  ”Examining Zones of Encounter and Sites of Governance: The Middle Class Poverty Projection”. Helen also received a Mary Gates Leadership Scholarship for her project, “Caring Across Distance: Working with the Critical Development Forum.”

Mollie Holmberg, Mary Click to Read More

Geolocating the #Occupy movement – surprising results and importance of scale

Our own Joe Eckert has a post up on the SoMe Lab blog that begins to examine geolocated Twitter data related to the Occupy Wall Street movement.  You can check it out here:

“We’ve been working hard at SoMe Lab to begin processing some of the Twitter data we’ve pulled.  We’ve found some surprising Click to Read More

China: The Largest Migration in Human History

Geography Professor Kam Wing Chan’s work on internal Chinese migration is prominently cited in this week’s Economist article, “The Impact of Chinese Migrati0n: We Like to Move It Move It”.

IF YOU purchased one of the 1.8 billion mobile phones shipped around the world last year, there is a 50% chance it was put Click to Read More

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