Category: Faculty
Share Your Science Hall Memories
Science Hall has a long, storied history, and Geography students have been traversing its corridors and making memories in its lecture halls for decades. As Dr. Moore shared…
New Year, New Challenges: A Letter from the Department Chair
Greetings, everyone. It’s hard to know where to begin! The past few months have presented some of the most significant, coordinated challenges to higher education…
Mapping Our Changing World: Building a Cartographic Community with First Year Students
“It was written in my contract,” Professor Bill Limpisathian told me when I asked him how his freshmen seminar, Mapping Our Changing World, came about….
New Faculty: Examining the Global Middle East with Dr. Lisa Bhungalia
This semester, our department welcomes new faculty member Professor Lisa Bhungalia. We recently spoke with Professor Bhungalia about her research, her inspiration, and more! Tell…
Cartography Lab Students Win Awards, Share Insights, and Collaborate at Annual NACIS Meeting
In October, UW Cartography Lab faculty, students, alumni, and affiliates met up with other members of the cartographic community in scenic Tacoma, Washington for the…
Faculty Profile: Dr. A-Xing Zhu
For the profile this month, we were super excited to sit down with Professor A-Xing Zhu; a long-time faculty member here at UW-Madison and the…
Highlights from the 2024 UW-Madison Geospatial Summit
Over 100 people gathered together for the 2024 UW-Madison Geospatial Summit on April 10th. The event was the first occurrence since the pandemic forced organizers…
Announcing AAG Fellows Award Recipient: Dr. Song Gao
Congratulations to UW-Madison Department of Geography Professor Song Gao for being a recipient of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Fellows award. Dr. Gao is…
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…
Geography students, faculty, and staff participate in 2023 International Cartographic Conference
By: Graduate students: Alicia Iverson, Nuzhat Tabassum Nawshin, and Chelsea Nestel; Professor Robert Roth and Cartography Lab Creative Director Alicia Cowart In August 2023, Ph.D….
