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David Bromwich Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Five Ohio State faculty among the 2015 class of AAAS FellowsThis Honor is a measure of scientists’ impact on the worldCOLUMBUS, Ohio – Five Ohio State University faculty have been elected this…

Congratulations to Peixuan Jiang
Peixuan Jiang successfully passed his Masters exam on Nov. 17. The title of his paper is "Design and implementation of a parallel heuristic method for spatial aggregation problems.” Members of his…

Congratulations to Zoe Pearson
It's our pleasure to report that yesterday, Zoe Pearson successfully defended her dissertation, "Coca Sí, Cocaína No? The Intimate Politics of International Drug Control Policy and Reform in…

Congratulations to John Banghoff
Please join us in congratulating John Banghoff who successfully defended his Honors Thesis this morning. The title of John’s Thesis is “Correlation of Tornado Intensity with Dual-…

New Book on Land Use by Ola Ahlqvist
Ola Ahlqvist, associate professor, geography, is lead editor of the new book, Land Use and Land Cover Semantics (CRC Press, 2015), a collection of articles written by well-known scientists in…

New Book from Dan Sui:
Our very own Daniel Sui, is the lead author of a new study on the Internet’s underworld. The paper, The Deep Web and the Darknet: A Look Inside the Internet’s Massive Black Box, is published by…

Great Basin National Park Research starting to yield results.
For 10 years now the department has been conducting a yearly field trip to Great Basin National Park in Nevada.
Here is an article about this effort in the Las Vagas Review-Journal

New GIS Textbook by Ningchuan Xiao
Ningchuan Xiao, associate professor, geography, is the author of GIS Algorithms (SAGE Publications), a new, key textbook in the complex, critical area of Geographic Information Systems.

Geography PhD student Oliver Wigmore and his Surveyor Drone in the Peruvian Andes
OSU Geography PhD student Oliver Wigmore shows us some surveyor drone footage from his expedition to the Cordillera Blanca in the Peruvian Andes.