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Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
First this week some terrific news. I am very pleased to announce that Debangana Bose has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship from the Graduate School. This fellowship recognizes outstanding…

Congratulations to Alex McCarthy
Please join us in congratulating Alex McCarthy on the successful defense of his master's thesis. His thesis is titled "Convective Cores in Continental and Oceanic Thunderstorms:…

News From Geographical Analysis
As Chair of the Executive Committee for the journal (along with Art Getis, Mike Goodchild, Ed Malecki, and Bill Clark) I am delighted to announce a truly path breaking change for Geographical…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
One of the great aspects of the AAG annual meeting, completed a few weeks ago, was the opportunity to meet and say hello to our recent grads. Everyone has their own circle of course, but I was…

Congratulations to Yongha Park
Yongha Park successfully defended his dissertation this week. The committee was Harvey Miller, Ningchuan Xiao, Morton O’Kelly (adviser) and Zhenhua Chen (C&RP) as the Grad School…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
Greetings from Boston.
I am delighted to announce that the recipient of this year’s S. Earl Brown Staff Award is Suzanne Mikos. We like to make a big surprise splash with these awards but…

Congratulations to Zachary Paganini
Congratulations to Zack Paganini, aka Zachary Berry Paganini, who very ably defended his M.A. this afternoon.
Zack's thesis, titled "Underwater: Using Ethnography to Investigate…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
I am delighted to inform the department that Joel Wainwright and Ola Ahlqvist have received word from the Provost’s office recommending their promotion to Professor, effective June 8, 2017. Well…

OSU Geography PhD student, Gabriel Zeballos, comments on the Bolivian Drought.
OSU Geography PhD Student Gabriel Zeballos was quoted in an article on telesur about the current drought problems in Bolivia.
"Drought Crisis Shows Mother Earth Is Thirsty and Bolivians Are…