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Alumni Spotlight: Matt Forrest, B.A.'10

Matt Forrest (Geography ’10) is the co-founder of a Minnesota-based company Carticulate LLC, a mapping business he started with fellow UW-Madison undergraduate alumni Kate Chanba…

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Posted in Faculty

Kris Olds to Chair International Studies Assessment Committee

Kris Olds, was selected to chair a campus-wide interdisciplinary committee to evaluate the way international studies are governed and organized at the UW-Madison. “The work…

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Meet our new faculty

This fall we welcomed two new faculty members. A Wisconsin native, Robert Roth, received both a BS (2005) and MS (2007) from the UW-Madison Geography Department in Cartography/GIS. He…

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Posted in Publications Research

UW Geographers address potential Social Impacts of REDD/Climate Change Policy

Tropical deforestation is a source of roughly 15% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) is a prominent international policy…

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