Geography well represented at the Annual Campus Awards Ceremony
Professors Mark Schwartz, Anne Bonds, and Donna Genzmer (Academic Staff) receive campus awards for service to UWM.
Faculty News
Faculty Spotlight: Rina Ghose
Dr. Rina Ghose was invited to lead mentoring sessions at the 2015 Geography Faculty Development Alliance workshop at the University of Connecticut (21 June-27 June).
Faculty Spotlight: Anne Bonds, Anna Mansson McGinty, Kristin Sziarto and Hyejin Yoon
Geography faculty organize an international conference in Milwaukee which attracted 130 participants from 20 different countries.
Faculty Spotlight: Mark Schwartz
Distinguished Professor Mark Schwartz WUMM radio interview on Phenology and online tracker measure the start of Spring…
Faculty Spotlight: Anna Mansson McGinty, Kristin Sziarto
Anna Mansson McGinty, Kristin Sziarto, and UWM colleague Caroline Seymour-Jorn (French, Italian, and Comparative Literature) have received the 2015 Morris Fromkin Memorial Award for their Muslim Milwaukee Project, a collaboration with Muslim community leaders in Milwaukee.
Faculty Spotlight: Zengwang Xu
Zengwang Xu served as a mentor for the project “Integrating Emergency Department Data with Law Enforcement, Emergency Medical Service and Community Data to Reduce Violence,” a collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Faculty Spotlight: Linda McCarthy
Linda McCarthy visited the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin (UCD) in February to work on a collaborative international research project.
Faculty Spotlight: Woonsup Choi
Woonsup Choi was appointed as International Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Korea from March 2015 to February 2016.
Faculty Spotlight: Anne Bonds
Anne Bonds presented a keynote lecture at the 2015 Race, Ethnicity, and Identity Conference, hosted by the Social Sciences Department at Grand Rapids Community College.
Faculty Spotlight: Mark Schwartz
Mark D. Schwartz, a distinguished professor of geography, developed the spring indices, which measure relationships between temperature and plant growth. Here, he explains vegetation phenology, his indices and how the science can be used in fields such as agriculture, wildfire prevention and gardening.