This Spring We Feature Two Visiting Scholars Mouhaman Arabi And Haiqi Wang As Well As Our Faculty Member Morton O'Kelly and Graduate Student Austin Kocher:
Mouhaman Arabi:
I am Mouhaman Arabi I teach at the Department of Environmental Sciences of the Higher Institute of the Sahel, the University of Maroua in the Extreme North of Cameroon (West Central Africa). I am presently a visiting scholar in the department of Geography where I work with Prof Ningchuan Xiao. The theme of my research is "The spatiotemporal epidemiology of cholera in the Extreme North of Cameroon". This research will involve the application of GIS, spatial analysis and environmental modelling. I am also interested in regional development planning. Mr. Arabi will be located in 0126 Derby Hall. Please stop by and chat with Arabi.
Darla Munroe, associate professor, geography, has recently been appointed as an Associate Editor for the journal of Geographical Analysis - an internationally renowned outlet for theoretical geography, spatial analysis and modeling. Congratulations Darla.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Sara Santiago and Paul Soltesz for their 3'rd place finishes at the 2012 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. The Dept. is very proud of the 7 undergraduate submissions to the Denman this year and we encourage current and future undergrads to consider doing a Denman project. Let it also be mentioned here that Geography professor Kendra McSweeney received the Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor (DURM) Award at this years Denman awards ceremony. Congratulations to all. Read More →
Geography Ph.D. student Sayoni Bose (Advised by Kevin Cox) has just received an $8340 grant from the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. They fund research projects related to issues of national and international security. They have three principal areas of focus within the broader scope of national and international security issues. These relate to a) the use of force and diplomacy, b) the ideas, identities, and decisional process that affect security, and c) the institutions that manage violent conflict. My research project matches very closely with their second focus on how ideas, identities, and decisional process affect security. Congratulations Sayoni.
We are pleased to announce that the registration form and program for "Queer Places, Practices, and Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Sam Steward" are available on the symposium website. This two-day conference, to be held May 18-19, at Ohio State features an exciting and diverse array of panels composed of scholars, activists, and students from throughout the U.S. and internationally; lunchtime discussions; plenary panels featuring some of the most prominent scholars in the field; and a keynote by Justin Spring, biographer of Sam Steward, an alumnus of the Ohio State English Department (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., 1927-34). The conference is open to the OSU community as well as the general public, and we hope that you will want to take full advantage of the offerings. Read More →