Author: Geography Staff
Geography Homecoming: Celebrating our history, looking to the future
Join Geography for the 2016 UW–Madison Homecoming (November 11 and 12) as we celebrate the impact that Arthur Robinson had on the department. Many of our…
Nelson receives Dartmouth postdoctoral fellowship
Congratulations to Garrett Nelson (PhD ’16) who was named one of seven postdoctoral students to Dartmouth’s Society of Fellows, the second cohort of rising scholars to be…
2016 Geography Department Awards
The Department of Geography is pleased to announce the winners of our 2016 Department awards. Whitbeck Graduate Dissertator Award Every year, the department gives two Whitbeck awards…
Kahn receives Academic Staff Excellence Award
On May 12th, College of Letters & Science Dean, Karl Scholz, granted three sets of awards that recognized and celebrated the excellence of university staff, as…
Green receives Fulbright Fellowship
Ph.D. candidate Nathan Green received a Fulbright U.S. Student Award which he will use in conjunction with a Center for Khmer Studies Ph.D. Fellowship for his upcoming dissertation field…
Doeppers publishes new book
Congratulations to Dr. Dan Doeppers (Emeritus Professor of Geography and Southeast Asian Studies) for the publication of his landmark book, Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850–1945, now…
2016 UW-Madison Geospatial Summit attracts a diversity of attendees
The 2016 Geospatial Summit, organized by our State Cartographer’s Office, was held on April 19 at UW-Madison. It attracted almost 140 registrants from locations around the…
We're Hiring: IT Manager
The Department of Geography is in search of an Information Technology (IT) Manager. The IT Manager is responsible for the IT needs of the Department of Geography, Gaylord…
May Graduate Student Defense Talks
Join us in support of the following students as they present their final degree talks over the next 2 weeks. Monday, May 2: Zidong Zhang (MS-Cart/Geog) 2:30pm, Hartshorne Room,…
Geography junior awarded fellowship to develop water quality project in rural Ecuador
Geography junior Amelia Rossa (along with fellow undergrads Joshua Kalman and Caden Lambie), in partnership with the Ceiba Foundation, has been awarded a 2016-17 Wisconsin Idea Fellowship to implement a…