Posts by geogadmin

Alumna Yihong Yuan successfully defended her dissertation in November 2013 (Chair: Adjunct Geography faculty member Martin Raubal at ETH Zurich), and she just wrote to say, “I recently received a government award (“Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad”). I applied for the award when I was still a UCSB student, so I thought this might be something interesting for the department news....

“National Doughnut Day is on the first Friday of June each year, succeeding the Doughnut Day event created by The Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the men and women who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I … A misapprehension has taken hold that the provision of doughnuts to US enlisted men in World War I is the origin of the term “doughboy” to describe US infantry. But, the term was in use as early...

Justin Holman is the author of justinholman.com, a blog titled “Geographical Perspectives: A geographer’s thoughts on business, real estate, and education.” Holman has a PhD in Geography, specializing in Geographic Information Science, and has nearly 20 years of experience in geospatial research and software development. Since 2012, Holman has produced his own rankings of graduate Geography programs in the U.S.,...