News Archive

Following the Department’s recent 40th anniversary events, the graduate students of Geography decided to put on a spring barbeque at Goleta Beach, to give everyone a much-needed end of quarter break. This event was open to all geographers, folks from related departments and programs, and all of their families, friends, and pets. We informally counted a record number of dogs this year, including the geographer-pup Altas, faithful...

The following are extracts from an article by David Rogers, who writes for Politico Magazine online, that was posted May 28 and titled “Flood of child migrants a neglected challenge.” As Congress dithers over immigration reform, the children of Central America aren’t waiting. The past few years have seen a steady rise in the number of teenagers and younger boys and girls crossing the Southwest border unaccompanied by...

The following is a Duke University news article posted May 29, 2014 and titled “New Technologies Making It Easier to Protect Threatened Species”: Human actions have pushed extinction rates to 1,000 times faster than the natural rate, but a new Duke University-led study finds that emerging technologies could give scientists and policymakers a more efficient way to identify the species at greatest risk and take steps to...