Recent Posts
New book by Yi-Fu Tuan
Yi-Fu Tuan has recently published a new book entitled, “Humanist Geography: An Individual’s Search for Meaning”. “For more than fifty years, Yi-Fu Tuan has carried…
Carl Sack Wins WLIA Scholarship
Carl Sack, a graduate student in the Cartography/GIS masters program, recently was recognized by the Wisconsin Land Information Association (WLIA) with the 2012 Damon Anderson…
Graduate students receive national recognition by integrating geography and journalism
A trio of UW-Madison graduate students – Emily Eggleston, Amy Karon, and Kate Prengaman—recently were awarded the 2012 Tableau Student Data Challenge for their project Family Economics in…
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…
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…
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…
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…