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While there is an adage that there is no such thing as bad press, geographers are fed up with the cliché that Geography is simply the study of maps. Sure, the word itself is from the Greek geographia – “description of the earth’s surface,” from geo- “earth” + -graphia- “graphic” or “description.” But today’s definition ain’t your daddy’s anymore! The...

Prof. Martin Raubal, Adjunct UCSB Geography faculty member, just wrote from ETH Zurich to say: “My student Yihong Yuan successfully defended her PhD on November 21, 2013. She has done a wonderful job over the last 4 years, publishing several papers in prominent journals and conferences and working with me here in Switzerland on a project called ‘Characterizing human mobility from mobile phone usage’ funded by the Swiss National...

The following is an article from the new UCSB news central service, The Current, titled “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” which was written by Julie Cohen and posted November 21: When Mr. Acton’s second-grade class came to school Wednesday, they had no idea they were going to play with dirt. But that’s just what they did to celebrate Geography Awareness Week (GeoWeek) as part of UC Santa Barbara’s...