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Geography at the 2025 Arts and Sciences Alumni Award Ceremony
Last Friday, Geography was a featured “interactive showcase” at this year’s ASC Alumni Awards ceremony. Adam Tjoelker, Jana Houser, Steven Quiring, Kendra McSweeney, and Mat Coleman were on…

Ohio State geographers excel at the 2025 World Geography Bowl
At the 2025 World Geography Bowl at the AAG meeting in Detroit, the ELDAAG team placed fourth out of eight teams. Aniket Sangwan, Adam Tjoelker, and Summer Ha were among the six students in the…

Dr. Sandy Wong wins AAG award!
Dr. Sandy Wong has won the 2025 Emerging Scholar Award in Health and Medical Geography. The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) of the AAG recognized Sandy as an early career…

Geography undergraduates present their work at the 2025 AAG meeting in Detroit!
Congratulations to our intrepid undergraduate students who presented their work at this year’s national AAG meeting in Detroit. Emma Maher presented her thesis “Extreme heat, urban experimentation…

Harvey Miller wins James Anderson medal
Congratulations to Professor Harvey Miller, faculty member in Geography and director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, who won the2025 James R. Anderson Medal…

Geographers win Mershon grants!
Jublee Handique (co-advised by Mat Coleman and Madhu Dutta) will be getting $10,000 from Mershon for her dissertation fieldwork. Jublee’s project, titled Open Air Markets and…

Denman winner from Geography!
Emma Maher won a Sustainability Institute award at this year’s Denman competition for her project titled Extreme heat, urban experimentation, and visions of past futures in Seville, Spain, for…

Jon Anderegg, MGIST student, announced as finalist in ESRI StoryMap Competition
Jonathan Anderegg, a graduate student in the MGIST program, has been announced a finalist in the worldwide 2024 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition: Storytelling For a Better World. His StoryMap:…

Congratulations to Ohio State’s championship football team!
The Ohio State Buckeyes secured the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship with a 34-23 victory over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on January 20, 2025. Although the Buckeyes concluded…