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Department cartography students win high honors at AAG

Cartography students from the UW-Madison geography department won high honors at the 2013 conference of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in Los Angelas.

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Kris Olds to offer MOOC

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will offer four pilot courses as part of a new delivery system in higher education known as Massive Open Online Courses…

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UW-Madison "Then and Now" Poster on sale

This 30″ x 20″ poster, produced by the SCO, uses historic aerial photography to show how the UW–Madison campus has changed over time. The poster…

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Meet new faculty member, Morgan Robertson

January 14, 2013, Tom Ziemer, L&S News and Notes Morgan Robertson did not consider working in geography until he traveled to Australia as a Fulbright…

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UW-Madison – Beijing Normal University Partnership Update

The department held a workshop on scientific writing on November 5 -16th as part of a growing partnership between the UW-Madison Geography Department and and…

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Yi-Fu Tuan receives Vautrin-Lud International Geography Prize

Emeritus professor Yi-Fu Tuan was presented with the Vautrin-Lud International Geography Prize over the weekend at the International Festival of Geography in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France. The Vautrin-Lud International Geography Prize,…

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2012 Atlas of Design released

Daniel Huffman (Cart/GIS M.S. ’10) and Tim Wallace (PhD candidate), are co-editors of the soon to be released Atlas of Design. The Atlas of Design is a biennial publication by…

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Department Mourns Loss of Prof. Jim Knox

Jim Knox, geomorphologist and professor emeritus at the Department of Geography, died suddenly at his Madison home on Saturday, Oct. 6. He retired from teaching…

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New book by Yi-Fu Tuan

Yi-Fu Tuan has recently published a new book entitled, “Humanist Geography: An Individual’s Search for Meaning”. “For more than fifty years, Yi-Fu Tuan has carried…

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Carl Sack Wins WLIA Scholarship

Carl Sack, a graduate student in the Cartography/GIS masters program, recently was recognized by the Wisconsin Land Information Association (WLIA) with the 2012 Damon Anderson…

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