Category: Research
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…
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…
Ph.D. Student Laura Szymanski Accepts GSA Science Policy Fellowship
Laura Szymanski, Physical Geography Ph.D. student in Erika Marin-Spiotta’s Biogeography and Biogeochemistry lab, has accepted a year-long position in Washington DC as the Geological Society…
Student Profile: Pao Vue
Our latest student profile is with Ph.D. graduate Pao Vue, who recently defended his dissertation on how government laws and policies, the capitalistic market economy, and…
Geograd Symposium 2018
Please join us for the Geograd Symposium this Friday, April 6 from 8am–noon in Science Hall, Room 450. We have an incredible lineup of graduate…
#muddyboots: Academic motherhood in the field
There is a long history of geographers doing fieldwork to advance their research. This history includes lore about far away field sites, long days in…
2018 Design Challenge: Feminist Cartographies and Recidivism
In its fourth iteration, the Design Challenge is an annual event organized by the UW–Madison Cartography Lab and the Department of Geography. The Design Challenge…
Collaborative project to map antibiotic resistance data across Wisconsin
For many years public health officials have collected data on the resistance that infectious microbes have to antibiotics. Resistance patterns change from year to year…
Sub-Area Feature: Physical Geography
The UW-Madison Geography Department has four major thematic areas: Physical Geography, People-Environment, Human Geography, and Cartography/GIS. This year, we will feature each sub-area to highlight the…
2017 Graduate Student Publications
Geography graduate students publish in a wide range of academic and non-academic venues from Computational Culture: A Journal of Software Studies to Ephemera: Theory and…
