Students from Geog 5501 (Urban Spaces in the Global Economy) walking in Old Towne East, near the east side of Columbus. This class is taught by Madhumita Dutta.

Thompson Ice Core Lab Featured on PBS News Hour

Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson (affiliated faculty, SES) were featured on the PBS News Hour: Glacier ice samples act as records of climate change’s impact on Earth.

Faculty News: 

Madhumita Dutta's Geog 5501 class (pictured above) is conducting multiple visits to Old Towne East this semester. Once a predominantly African-American neighborhood, the area has seen massive changes due to multiple processes: re-zoning as historic district, the construction of a highway, and an influx of new homebuyers (mostly White). It is close to Poindexter Village, the first public housing project in the US established in the1940s, whose early residents were all Black. The class encourages experiential learning through field visits, interactions with community members, and connecting Columbus urban spaces to the world outside with classroom lectures!

Kenneth Madsen will be teaching an Inside-Out section of GEOG 3600 (Space, Power, and Political Geography) in Spring 2022 at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. The Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP) at Ohio State brings campus and incarcerated students together in prison-based classrooms to explore class themes in a collaborative setting. This approach fosters confidence for incarcerated students, promotes successful reintegration, and dramatically reduces recidivism. Campus students have an opportunity to expand their understanding of mass incarceration in this country and personalize their understanding of the U.S. justice system. 

Student News: 

Anisa Kline has received a pilot program grant from the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health (GPCAH). Housed at the University of Iowa, GCPAH receives funding from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health to invest in research on agricultural health and safety. She was awarded $30,000 to complete her dissertation research on the lives and health of H-2A workers in Ohio.

Upcoming Events

Please join us for GeoWeek 2021! This online event takes place November 15-19, browse and register for events here!

Our next two speakers in our Geography speakers series are:
Arianna Planey, UNC, Intersectionality and Time: Thinking Relationally About Health(care) Inequities, November 5th; and

Mae Miller, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley, On Safe Harbors, Worlding Education, and Transnational Black Feminist Geographies in the Early Twentieth Century, November 19th.

Geography Blog 

Our featured blog this week as part of our "Then and Now" series was written by Marilyn Brown (PhD Geog,1977; Regent's Professor at Georgia Tech) and Snehal Kale (PhD student): Research to Action: Why are climate solutions diffusing so slowly?

Darla Munroe
Professor and Chair