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John Gurda is a Milwaukee-born writer and historian who has been studying his hometown since 1972. He is the author of twenty-two books, including histories of Milwaukee-area neighborhoods, industries, and places of worship. Gurda’s most ambitious efforts are The Making …
Two and a half years since the onset of a global pandemic that radically transformed our lives and society in numerous ways, what has been the impact of Covid-19 on our neighborhoods and communities? How has Covid-19 further revealed and …
Professor Muki Haklay from University College London, Department of Geography will be presenting for the UWM Department of Geography Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture. Meeting on Teams: Meeting ID 226 834 760 653 Passcode SgRQU2
Presented by Dr. Jennifer L. Rice, Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia, and a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Women’s Studies and the Center for Integrative Conservation Research at the University of Georgia. She is a co-editor of Urban Climate Justice: Theory, Praxis, and Resistance (University of Georgia Press, 2023). The title of her talk is: Climate Justice in the City
Data storytelling refers to the practice of using data to communicate a narrative or a compelling story. It involves combining data analysis and visualization techniques with storytelling principles to convey insights, trends, or patterns in a meaningful and engaging way. …
Dissertation proposal presentation of Dean Maraldo: The Arctic is warming faster than any other region of the world, driving significant changes in terrestrial ecosystems and the cryosphere, including changes in vegetation phenology and the loss of lake ice, permafrost, and …
Dissertation proposal presentation of Lulu Liu: Over-concentrated urban buildings and energy consumption have become one of the major reasons for the environmental deterioration in urban areas and can directly or indirectly cause urban microclimate changes. Energy consumption in urban areas …
Dissertation proposal presentation of Matthias Schilli: Violence has been studied as a social and public health issue for a long time. We investigate the violence in the City of Chicago by integrating social, environmental, and mobility factors in spatial statistical …
Thesis presentation of Christopher Archuleta: Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) are primarily used for determining flood insurance rates and for determining which properties are required to have flood insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program. However, they are also flood risk maps …
Thesis presentation of Mark Miracle: This study investigates the negative health consequences linked to lead exposure, with a specific focus on interventions implemented in Milwaukee. Emphasizing the heightened susceptibility of young children during organ development, the research examines literature on …
Thesis presentation of Mathew Ugwuanyi: Studies over the United States has shown that disparity still exists in lung cancer mortality. Such disparity has been greatly attributed to several risk factors such as genetics, socio-economic status, comorbidities, amongst others. Primarily, this …
The 2024 Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture Agriculture is considered multifunctional when it produces standard commodity goods alongside a broader range of human and ecological services. The degree to which agriculture is successfully multifunctional owes much to feedback among individual …
A panel presentation with UWM scholars, drawing upon a multi-year community collaboration and ethnographic work within the Muslim Milwaukee Project. The panelists will discuss highlights on demographics and community-building, reflections on positionality and relationality, and different expressions of activism. Panelists …
A Department of Geography colloquium with Amy Rohan and Amanda Beavin from the Milwaukee organization, Data You Can Use.
The Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey has recently published a new 1:500,000 scale map of the Quaternary Geology of Wisconsin. Dr. J. Elmo Rawling will discuss Wisconsin’s Quaternary geology with an emphasis on lithostratigraphy, cartography and geodatabase schema.