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Exterior view of Hayes Hall
August 26, 2025

First Day of Class Autumn Semester 2025

Event Start Time: 8:00 am
Event Location: The Ohio State University
Ohio State Oval at dawn
September 1, 2025

Labor Day

Event Start Time: 8:00 am
Event Location: The Ohio State University
Geog Speaker Series AU25 lineup
September 26, 2025

The Geography Speaker Series Presents, Prof. Kelly Kay

Event Start Time: 3:30 pm
Event Location: Senate Chambers 2nd Floor (RM 2145), Ohio Union
Ohio Stadium
October 14 - October 15, 2025

2025 Autumn Semester Mid Term Exams

Event Start Time: 8:00 am
Event Location: The Ohio State University

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Joseph Chan and Jana Houser

Extreme Weather and Forecasting Radio Talk

Joseph and Jana were on All Sides with Amy Juravich on July 22 to talk about all things extreme weather-related and forecasting-related! You can listen in here: https://www.wosu.org/show/all-…

Story Map Commodity Chain

Check out these storymaps from students in the SU2024 version of GEOG 2400.02

With the guidance of our GIS administrator, Michelle Hooper, students in Dr. Ariel Rawson’s Summer 2024 offering of Social and Economic Geography (GEOG 2400.02) created a compelling series of…

Gavin giving children a virtual reality demonstration.

Harvey Miller and CURA at the Ohio History Connection for Juneteenth

Harvey Miller, Jordan Swaim-Fox, and Gavin Lavine were on hand at the Juneteenth Jubilee at the Ohio History Connection on June 19. They shared CURA’s new Ghost Neighborhoods project which uses 3D…

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Leadership change at Geographical Analysis

After eight remarkable years of service, Rachel Franklin—Executive Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard—will be stepping down as editor of Geographical Analysis at the end of…

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