Author: Geography Staff
New Department Hires
The Department of Geography at UW-Madison is growing! We’ve been fortunate to hire three new faculty members, bringing our total number of faculty who have…
The Wisconsin Idea in Action: Grant County and Robinson Map Library Partnership
The Robinson Map Library, a unit of the UW-Madison Department of Geography, is partnering with Grant County to digitally preserve a collection of historic maps…
Student Profile: Sam Ropa
Sam Ropa is a UW-Madison senior with a double major in Geography and Anthropology. In the spring of 2018 he received a Kohn award from…
Alumni Profile: Emily Toner
Our latest alumni profile is with Emily Toner, who received both an MS in Geography (2012) and an MA in Journalism (2013) from the University…
Spring & Summer 2018 Graduate Degrees
Congratulations to the Geography Department’s Spring and Summer 2018 graduate degree recipients! We are excited to see where these graduates go next, and will follow…
Alumni Team Travels to UNESCO World Heritage Site
Resting in the hills on the southern coast of Sicily sits the city of Agrigento. Because of its strategic location on the Mediterranean there was…
PhD Student Meghan Kelly Publishes in Rolling Stone Magazine
It’s been an eventful summer in the UW–Madison Cartography Lab! On top of our usual summer contract work, a Cart Lab alumnus put us in…
Daniel Huffman Leads Mapping Workshop in Alaska
While cartographers usually experience the world through their computer screens, sometimes they are lucky enough to have their work take them outside the office. In…
Professor Ian Baird on the Laos Dam Failure
On July 25, 2018, a hydroelectric dam in southeastern Laos collapsed and released close to 18 billion cubic feet of water—enough to “cover an area…
Alumni Profile: Alex Tait
[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]”Geographers and their global perspective help drive a better and deeper understanding of our world and provide a…
