Professor Choi’s research on urban heat islands is featured in a recent PBS Great Lakes Now feature: Heat Islands in the Great Lakes: Community, infrastructure and fresh water solutions | Great Lakes Now.
In this new PBS documentary, Anne Bonds and Derek Handley (English) discuss their research on racial covenants in Milwaukee. Read and watch more about Bond and Hadley’s documentary here.
Kristin Sziarto, Anna Mansson McGinty, and Caroline Seymour-Jorn are among the first group of recipients of awards in the Center for 21st Century Studies’ new C21 Collaboratory initiative.
It is with great sadness that we share news of the death of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and Urban Studies Harold M. Rose.
Professor Geoffrey Henebry of South Dakota State University’s Geospatial Sciences Center for Excellence presented “Remote Sensing of Land Surface Phenologies and Seasonalities Using Hot, Warm, and Cool Earthlight.”
Please join us to welcome Dr. Cuiyu Song from the College of Earth Science & Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong, China.
Professors Mark Schwartz, Anne Bonds, and Donna Genzmer (Academic Staff) receive campus awards for service to UWM.
The Department of Geography welcomed visitors from Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany. The group of undergraduate students were led by their instructor, Timo Kleiner, a former exchange student in the department
Geography kicked off the Fall semester 2015 with a workshop using our new Teaching-Assistant Handbook which provides a framework to develop an effective discussion section.
Prof. Changshan Wu took office as new Chair of the Department of Geography in August 2015.