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Summer with the Scouts: Eric Giese Makes Community Connections

For most of us, summer camp is a fond memory. Adventures, campouts, popsicles, lazy days floating on a lake… it’s all in the distant past….

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Cartography Lab Design Challenge Goes Worldwide

For over a decade, the UW Cartography Lab has planned and hosted a yearly Design Challenge. Always a highlight of the department’s year, the Design…

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New This Fall: Certificate in Geospatial Data Science

This fall, the Department of Geography invites undergraduates to make sense of the world in a new, data-driven way. For the first time ever, we’re…

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Celebrating the Class of 2025

Families, faculty, and staff gathered in Science Hall and online on Friday, May 9, to recognize this year’s Department of Geography graduates. Professor and Department…

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Maps and Art: The Disabled Wandering Atlas exhibition hosted by the Robinson Map Library

For two weeks this spring the Robinson Map Library was home to an art exhibition entitled “The Disabled Wandering Atlas” curated by UW-Madison MFA-candidate Anne…

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Undergraduate Q&A: Lauren Wunderlich

We take a moment to chat with one of our undergraduates, Lauren Wunderlich, who will be graduating in the fall. Lauren has not only achieved…

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Introducing the New Graduate Student Cohort 2024-2025!

If you spent any time walking along the Lakeshore Path this fall, odds are you walked past a member of the UW–Madison Geography Department’s newest…

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Geography Club Students Attend National Planning Conference

By: Ben Cramer, UW-Madison Geography Club President From April 12th – April 15th, members of the undergraduate Geography Club attended the American Planning Association National…

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Course Spotlight: Geography 302

GEOG 302: Economic Geography, taught by Professor Kris Olds, is not your typical college course. It began as a traditional class aimed at exploring the…

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Introducing the New Graduate Student Cohort 2023-2024!

The UW-Madison Geography Department is delighted to introduce our newest cohort of research-based Master’s and Ph.D. students: Alec Armon, Anjo Brekalo, Yanbing Chen, Christina Dennis,…

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