Category: Students
Lake Mendota mapmaker shows depth of her appreciation
Story by Käri Knutson, UW Communications Caroline Rose remembers the first time she saw Lake Mendota. The Minnesota native had been accepted at UW-Madison and…
Cartography graduate student leaves her mark at Memorial Union
Cartography graduate student, Caroline Rose, is leaving her mark at the University in the form of a permanent map installation at the Memorial Union. On May 19,…
Geography grad student launches ride-sharing business
Story by David Tenenbaum, University Communications Coride is debuting a ridesharing service accessible from smartphones and computers. The company is getting ready to launch its…
Matsumoto-Hervol wins Edna Glicksman award
Undergraduate senior, Makie Matsumoto-Hervol, received the 2014 Edna Glicksman award. The Glicksman Prize is awarded annually to a senior Letters and Science undergraduate woman in recognition of her “intellectual…
Colin Higgins wins Udall Scholarship
Story by Jill Sakai, Office of Sustainability University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Colin Higgins has been selected as a 2014 Udall Scholar. Higgins, who is triple-majoring in geography,…
Cathy Day wins Innovation in Teaching award
Congratulations to PhD candidate Cathy Day for winning an Innovation in Teaching TA Award from the College of Letters and Science for her work making adaptations to Geog 339: Environmental…
UW-Madison geography students sweep NACIS digital mapping awards
UW-Madison Geography students and alumni represented big at this year’s North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) conference. Twenty UW-Madison students alone were on the ground…
Jonathan Goodell awarded McNair Fellowship
Congratulations to junior Jonathan Goodell (Geography, Cartography/GIS ’15) for winning a 2013 McNair Fellowship. The McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program at the UW-Madison awards 25 fellowships annually to…
Cartography students win high honors
This spring was a season of honors for cartography students in the department. Katie Ginter (GIS Certificate) and Morgan Jarocki (BA Cart/GIS ’13) tied for 1st place in…
Poelking receives undergraduate award for academic excellence
Geography undergrad Claire Poelking was selected by the Office of the Provost to receive a 2012-13 University Book Store Academic Excellence Award. This award is…
