Dr. Anne Bonds (Professor of Geography)
Dr. Anne Bonds recently delivered the Gould Memorial Lecture on “Mapping Racism and Resistance” at Colgate University on April 10 in 2025. Dr. Anne Bonds also published a co-authored article: Markley, S., & Bonds, A. (2025). Race and value in space and time: a critical narrative cartography of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation’s Area Descriptions. Urban Geography, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2025.2492218
Dr. Woonsup Choi (Professor of Geography)
Dr. Woonsup Choi accepted an invitation to serve an NSF program panel on 17-20 November, 2025. In addition to this, Dr. Woonsup Choi published the following article: “Relationship between Drought Characteristics and the Extent of Urban Land Cover: The Case of the Milwaukee River Basin in Wisconsin (USA).” (PDF) Journal of Climate Research 20.2 (2025): 63-76.
Dr. Alison Donnelly (Professor of Geography)
Professor Alison Donnelly supervised a SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fund) project presented by UWM Conservative Environmental Science major Hannah Pfaff at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on 25 April in 2025. The research explored the timing of leaf-out in native and non-native shrubs in Downer Woods.
Dr. Donelly attended the Pheno2025: towards a global phenology science, conference in Sao Pedro, Brazil which ran from 28 July to 1 August. This is the first time the conference was held in the Global South and was attended by presenters from around the world including from Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa. She gave a talk on work she carried out in Downer Woods with a graduate student in architecture, Elisabet Jatmiko. The title of the talk was “The last ones standing: how leaf senescence and chlorophyll degradation in native and non-native shrubs shape autumn phenology dynamics in a temperate deciduous woodland”.
Dr. Anna Mansson McGinty (Associate Professor of Geography and Women’s and Gender Studies)
Dr. Anna Mansson McGinty recently delivered her invited talk, “Problematizing representations of culture and human rights rhetoric about Muslim women: Some observations from feminist postcolonial work and ethnographic research,” at the Grand Rounds Forum, hosted by the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at University of Wisconsin–Madison on October 15, 2025.
Dr. Mark D. Schwartz (Distinguished Professor of Geography)
Dr. Mark D. Schwartz was recognized as a 2024 Highly Ranked Scholar in Phenology and Biometeorology by ScholarGPS. In addition to this, his coauthored research article was recently published in the Journal of Ecology. Gallinat, A. S., Schwartz, M. D., Donnelly, A., Li, X., & Crimmins, T. M. (2025). Combined volunteer and ecological network observations show broad‐scale temperature‐sensitivity patterns for deciduous plant flowering and leaf‐out times across the eastern USA. Journal of Ecology.
Dr. Schwartz also attended the Pheno2025: towards a global phenology science, conference in Sao Pedro, Brazil which ran from 28 July to 1 August. He gave a talk, “Changes in the Lower 48 USA Spring Onset since 1900”, and the research was applying the new Spring Development Indices.
Dr. Kristin Sziarto (Associate Professor of Geography)
Dr. Kristin Sziarto, Dr. Anna Mansson McGinty (Associate Professor of Geography and Women and Genders Studies), and Caroline Seymour Jorn (Professor of Global Studies) has received a Collaboratory award for 2025-2026 for their research project, The Muslim Milwaukee Project: Community and Care in Solidarity. This C21 Collaboratory will hold a community-oriented book talk-back in response to the group’s completed manuscript, Muslims in Milwaukee: Placemaking, Belonging and Activism.
Dr. Changshan Wu (Professor of Geography)
Dr. Changshan Wu published his coauthored article with Ph.D. Dissertator, Lulu Liu, in Remote Sensing Letters.
Liu, L., & Wu, C. (2025). Evaluating the influence of urban form on air temperature: a GIS-based local climate zone classification and urban heat island analysis in Milwaukee. Remote Sensing Letters, 16(7), 687–694. https://doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2025.2495993
Congratulations on Dr. Wu and Lulu on their publication!