Category: Students
An undergraduate perspective on the return to in person classes
By: Lily Houtman, undergraduate student and social media coordinator for the UW Geography Club After over a year of virtual learning, classes have finally regained…
Profile: Isabel Warner
There’s no better way to kick off our first profile and interview of the 2021-22 academic year than to highlight our new Communications and Media…
Welcome 2021 Research Master’s and PhD students
by: Luke Hingtgen (Graduate Student) & the Graduate Studies Committee The Department of Geography at UW–Madison is pleased to welcome our 2021 Research-based Master’s and…
2018-19 Graduate Student Publications
Geography graduate students publish in a wide range of academic and non-academic venues from Transactions in GIS to GeoHumanities. To celebrate the diversity of the discipline…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Spring 2018 Graduate Student Awards
We are proud to announce the Spring 2018 Graduate Student Awards! This list includes national awards, University of Wisconsin awards, American Association of Geographers awards,…
