Category: Faculty
Professor Matthew Turner honored with AAG 2023 Presidential Achievement Award
UW-Madison Professor of Geography Matthew Turner received the 2023 Presidential Achievement Award from the American Association of Geographers (AAG). This is the highest honor bestowed…
Profile: Bill Limpisathian
Name: Bill Limpisathian Title: Assistant Professor of Cartography and Geovisualization Start date: January 2023 Can you tell us more about your path to UW-Madison and…
Greetings from the chair…
Hello and happy holiday season to all Geographers and Badgers, near and far! In this end-of-year newsletter, we showcase the many ways in which the…
UW–Madison Faculty Make Strong Showing on Global Highly Cited Researchers List
Original article by By Natasha Kassulke, natasha.kassulke@wisc.edu, #HighlyCited2022 Sixteen UW–Madison researchers were recently recognized on the Institute for Scientific Information™ list of Highly Cited Researchers 2022. The…
The Great Green Wall of Sub-Saharan Africa
Special thanks to UW-Madison Geography Professor Matthew Turner for sharing this research story. We hope you enjoy reading about some of the amazing work our…
Profile: Jonathan Nelson
Name: Jonathan Nelson Title: Assistant Professor of GIS&T and Associate Director of GIS Professional Programs Start date: Fall 2022 Can you tell us more about…
Welcome letter from Professor Jack Williams…
Hello to all and welcome from Madison! It’s been a beautiful late summer and early fall, with all the energy that comes with 40,000 students…
UW–Madison mourns influential, beloved geography professor Yi-Fu Tuan
Originally published August 15, 2022 to UW-Madison News By Mary Ellen Gabriel Yi-Fu Tuan, a towering intellectual figure and University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus of…
Congratulations and Appreciation for Bob Kaiser at his Retirement
The Department wishes to express our warm appreciation for our friend and colleague, Bob Kaiser, who is retiring this academic year. Bob Kaiser is a…
Spotlight on Geography’s Research Labs
The Department of Geography is home to several research labs where students, faculty, staff, postdocs and scholars work together to develop and apply methodologies and…
