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Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
Lots of exciting developments this week:
Deondre Smiles (Kendra McSweeney, adviser) was elected Secretary of the Board of the AAG's Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group. Great to see this!…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
Well, two weeks have flown by already.
The July print version of National Geographic has a piece on the work Alvaro Montenegro has completed in PNAS on Polynesia.
Becky Mansfield is…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
Welcome back everyone and welcome to all our new students. This is a weekly tradition in the Geography Department: we send news and items of general interest to the department. We also are in the…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
We are delighted to report that Dan D’Amico has successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled: “Dissolved oxygen in the oceans: An examination of the Late Ordovician and near future using an…

Congratulations to Dan D'Amico
Please join us in congratulating Dan D’Amico who earlier today successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled: “Dissolved oxygen in the oceans: An examination of the Late Ordovician and near…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
I am delighted to report that our new colleague Madhumita Dutta will be arriving, as planned, near the beginning of the new term. Her office will be 1049A beside Ola Ahlqvist’s office. We are…

Chairman O'Kellys News Brief
Lots of news with an interdisciplinary flavor this week. Anurag Mazumdar (adviser: Nancy Ettlinger) has published a book review on: Undervalued Dissent: Informal Workers’ Politics in India by…
Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
Lots of great developments this week. Good news from Desheng Liu: he has received official notification from NSF of a new award.This is for collaborative research on: Hydrologic and Permafrost…