We are pleased to announce the election of Associate Professor Woonsup Choi as the Regional Councilor for the West Lakes Division of the American Association of Geographers.
UWM Alumnus Gregg Culver (PhD ’14), was recently interviewed by CityLab in a recent article, “The Unhelpful Ways Cities Talk About Bike Helmets”, on bike helmets and city planning.
Ryan Holifield, associate professor in the UWM Department of Geography, has been awarded the 2018 Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Research Grant and Lectureship for his proposal “When Visions of Justice Collide: Critique, Justification, and the ‘Box Tunnel Controversy’ at Milwaukee’s …
Associate Professor Glen Fredlund has provided a unique research opportunity for undergraduates, who are involved in his project to assess and prevent bird deaths on the UWM campus.
The Department begins to offer a new track option for GIS professionals in the MS program from Fall 2018. This GIS professional track is intended for students who plan to seek professional employment in the field of GIS and are not interested in continuing their graduate education beyond the master’s degree. Students need to apply for the regular Geography MS program and may declare the choice after enrollment.
Downer Woods has been selected as one of a hundred global locations to test a newly launched earth observing micro-satellite called Venμs (Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro Satellite).
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.
“A new forecasting tool created with models built by UWM climatologist Mark D. Schwartz just may put the spring-predicting groundhog, who may or may not cast his shadow on Feb. 2, out of work.”
Associate Professor Kristin Sziarto and PhD students Sohyung Lim and Katlyn Merkle delivered the presentation “All Maps Lie: Critical Map Reading in Teaching about Refugees and Migration” in UWM’s annual Teaching and Learning Symposium during Winterim 2018.
An article co-authored by Anne Bonds, “Beyond white privilege: Geographies of white supremacy and settler colonialism,” is currently featured as one of the “most read” articles in Progress in Human Geography, one of the top journals in the discipline.