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The 10th Annual Cart Lab Design Challenge: Co-Creating a Historical Atlas of Racial Violence

The 10th Anniversary of the UW Cartography Lab’s annual Design Challenge kicked off with a Yi-Fu Tuan lecture on February 16, 2024, with Faculty Director…

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Season’s Greetings from the Chair…

Greetings, friends.  These are challenging times, so here I write to share some winter warmth and good news, for we have much to celebrate in…

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Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office: Heritage Oaks Project

By Michael Hasinoff and Howard Veregin of the Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office In 1976, local conservationist, preservationist, writer and assistant to the Wisconsin DNR secretary,…

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Identifying Wisconsin’s Cartographic Phantoms

By: Michael Hasinoff and Howard Veregin of the Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office A “cartographic phantom” is a community that appears on a map but does…

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The Lao American Archives Project comes to Science Hall

In early April 2023, Geography Ph.D. Candidate, Akarath (Ake) Soukhaphon and volunteer, Gerry Duckitt, drove a U-Haul truck from Washington State to Madison, Wisconsin in…

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Religion and Tree Planting: A Discussion between Asghar Ali and Phra Ajarn Praseut at the Lao-Thai Theravada Buddhist Temple in Madison

In February, 2023, Asghar Ali arrived in Madison from his home in the Punjab in Pakistan as a visiting Ph.D. student, hosted by Professor Ian…

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UW Science Expeditions Open House held in Science Hall

The UW Science Expeditions campus open house event was held over the weekend of April 14-16, 2023. It featured activities and open houses across campus…

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UW Geography Alumni Spotlight

From using their geography knowledge in careers here in Madison to across the globe in Afghanistan, continue reading to see where UW Geography degrees have…

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Grad students work with climatologist on tool to alert communities on dangerous heat levels

From UW-Madison News: October 24, 2022 By Abigail Becker From left to right, graduate students Sara Pabich, Elizabeth Berg, and Becky Rose are collecting data…

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A productive spring & summer for Geography’s graduate students

Graduate students in the UW Geography Department have been busier than ever with field research, writing publications, obtaining exciting new positions, giving presentations, and winning…

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