News

Connecting Farmers to Real-Time Weather:
“Climate change poses a major challenge to Ohio agriculture, which is why the new State Climate Office of Ohio (SCOO), a team of experts from the Department of Geography and the Byrd Polar and…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
I am pleased to pass on the good news that Max Woodworth has received a positive 4th year review in a letter from Executive Dean Manderscheid. In addition Max is elected as Secretary in the China…

Professor Kendra McSweeney's Research Written up in The Guardian
Kendra McSweeney's research on drug trafficking and forests (a new article published in Environmental Research Letters) has been written up in The Guardian

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
A really impressive set of news for this week:
The college held a celebration lunch for the 2017 Huber awardees. I was pleased to be there with Becky Mansfield, along with Kristi Williams (…

Emeritus Geography Professor Hal Moellering Comments on Sky Scraper Project at the North Market
This morning WOSU broadcast a story about the future plans for a 35 story building situated next to the North Market in Columbus.
Our very own Hal Moellering was on the spot and was…
Graduation and Awards Reception, May 5 2017
On Friday May 5'th the Department conducted the annual Graduation and Awards ceremony at the Faculty club.
We would like to thank all who participated and give a summary of the awards and…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
We begin this week with some great news for our graduates. Austin Kocher successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation this Wednesday. Austin’s dissertation is titled ‘Notice to Appear: Immigration…

Congratulations to Zhiqi Yu
Please join us in congratulating Zhiqi Yu who successfully passed his Masters exam this morning. Zhiqi’s research paper is titled “Absolute and Relative Location Information Retrieval in …

Congratulations to Austin Kocher
Congratulations to Dr. Austin Kocher for having successfully defended his Ph.D. yesterday afternoon! Austin’s dissertation is titled ‘Notice to Appear: Immigration Courts and the Legal Production…