News
Alumni Update on Nurcan Atalan Helicke and Kejing Peng.
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 Becky…
Bryan Mark Presents at WMO meeting.
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 group…
Columbus awarded $50 million in Smart City grants
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 grant…
Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
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 members…
Congratulations to Yuxi Zhao
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 in…
Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
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 good news…
Kenneth Madsen, "Borders Walls, and Violence"
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 construction along…
Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson received the Margaret Douglas Medal from The Garden Club of America
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 cause…
Geog 5200S Partners with the Columbus Metropolitan Library on Mapping Project
Some news from an innovative class this Spring Semester (5200S) led by Ola Ahlqvist. This class was a huge success, and linked our students to work on behalf of and with the Columbus Metropolitan…