Geography PhD Student, Rui Zhu’s paper, submitted to the 20th International Conference of Geo-information Science (AGILE2017) in Wageningen, Netherlands was selected as the Best Full Paper. In the paper, Rui and coauthors Professor Phaedon Kyriakidis and Professor Krzysztof Janowicz, propose a new geographic conceptualization named the “Geo-multipole”, which explores the higher-order spatial interactions. Under the...
Read MoreCongratulations to Professor Hugo Loaiciga on earning the designation of Diplomat in Water Resources Engineering by the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers. The induction ceremony took place on May 22, 2017 at the 2017 Congress of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) in Sacramento,...
Read MoreThe results are in for the first annual Geography Trivia Afternoon held on Friday, April 14. And first place goes to…the senior faculty team, closely followed by graduate students’ groups placing second and third. The event, organized by the department’s Graduate Student Outreach Committee, drew over twenty participants including graduate and undergraduate students, faculty and visiting scholars. Five teams competed in three intense...
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