Geography News and Updates

Awards Convocation 2023

Despite the overcast weather, croutons were crisping for the Geography Barbeque, Spring 2023!

The first Gould talk since the start of the COVID pandemic was delivered by Dr. LaToya Eaves, which centers questions of race, Blackness, gender, sexualities, and place - especially in terms of the US South and Southeast.

Professor Ellen Percy Kraly gave a talk about her latest research and collaboration about forced and refugee migration for the Social Sciences brown bag this past March.

Fragmented thoughts from the Australia Study Group, Fall 2022 as written by Professor Adam Burnett, Geography and Environmental Studies

Emily Balog ’24 writes about her grand adventure in South Africa and how the Kevin Williams ’10 Endowed Memorial Fellowship helped enrich it.

Joseph Berberich '24 reflects on the influence of the Kevin Williams '10 Endowed Memorial Fellowship Award on his study abroad experience.

On a snowy Friday in January, geography held its first happy hour of the term.

Geography Professor Mike Loranty led the South Africa Study Group this fall, located at the University of Cape Town. The theme for the study group was "Biogeography in the Anthropocene."

Environmental effects can be found in many places: scientific temperature records, pollen surveys, and — based on summer research by Thomas Butler ’24 — in local farm diaries.