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.
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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.
Faculty Spotlight: Mark Schwartz
The National Phenology Network has just released the beta version of a new tool called Gridded Spring Indices.
Stephen Appel, received 2014 UWM Libraries Outstanding Achievement Award
Master’s student, Stephen Appel, received the 2014 UWM Libraries Outstanding Achievement Award.
Faculty Spotlight: Geography professors receive the Fromkin Award
Professors Caroline Seymour-Jorn (FICL), Kristin Sziarto, and Anna Mansson McGinty have received the Fromkin Award for their Muslim Milwaukee Project.
Faculty Spotlight: Anne Bonds
Prof. Anne Bonds‘ team (which includes geographer, Jenna Loyd) received one of this year’s Transdisciplinary Challenge Awards from the Center for 21st Century Studies.
Faculty Spotlight: Alison Donnelly
Alison Donnelly was presented with this 1795 map of Ireland by the directors of Celtic Studies at UWM for presenting a talk at the Certificate Ceremony on 9 May. She was appointed to the Celtic Studies Advisory Board in October.
Student News: Rebecca Wolfe
Rebecca Wolfe is interested in co-ops as an access point for citizenship/participatory democracies, community control and asset building/ownership among women and low-income communities of color.
Faculty Spotlight: Mark Schwartz
Distinguished Professor Mark Schwartz was interviewed on 6 May 2014 by WISN 12 News about climate change in Wisconsin.
Student Sustainability Fair
Alison Donnelly and students Matthew Rudman and Peter Armstrong presented a poster for the Student Sustainability Fair as part of the 2014 UWM Sustainability Symposium.