A very nice mixture of news and updates this week.
As mentioned in a previous edition, we have moved ahead on the infrastructure improvements and Derby 1070 is now back and rehabbed for our…
Here is an update on our recent graduate: Nurcan Atalan Helicke is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at Skidmore. She received her Ph.D. here in 2010 with her advisor…
Here are some further details on the recent trips by Bryan Mark who gave an invited talk at the Snow Watch Meeting a couple of weeks ago. This invitation only meeting is organized by a working…
A big shout out to all who were involved in the Columbus Winning Smart City Proposal! Harvey Miller worked as part of the great team on this.Here is the Columbus Dispatch article about the…
Lot's of news this week:
As of July 1 Kendra McSweeney is the incoming President of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG). It is independent from the AAG, and has about 300…
Please join us in congratulating Yuxi Zhao, who successfully passed her dissertation defense this morning. Her project is titled, "Entrepreneurship and commodified nature: amenity-led transitions…
The department is enjoying a surge in transfer students to the GIS Major, in part from the Engineering Disciplines as the College of Engineering manages their enrollments aggressively.
The…
Kenneth Madsen participated in a very successful conference on "Borders, Walls, and Violence" in Montreal. The topic of the paper was "Conflict and cooperation over border barrier…
Ellen Mosley-Thompson (Geography) and Lonnie Thompson (Earth Sciences) received the Margaret Douglas Medal from The Garden Club of America (GCA) in recognition of their notable service to the…
