The UCSB Department of Geography is proud to announce the induction of 19 new graduate students into its program. These gifted students are the academic cream of the crop of applicants for 2013, and we are both honored and privileged to have them join our Department. The Grad Student bulletin board in the Department’s main office area is updated with photos and details of our new grad’s goals and prior academic...
Read MoreIn the fall semester of 2012, Lumari Pardo-Rodriguez took Professor David López-Carr’s course, “Geography 288: Six Things you need to know to achieve maximum success in Grad School,” which led to her writing an article for the UCSB GradPost, titled “Make your Research Marketable!” Lumari made waves on the GradPost again this year by participating in TA orientation as part of a panel discussing how...
Read More“In addition to the well-known social issues of illiteracy and innumeracy, there also should be such a concept as “immappancy,“ meaning insufficient geographical knowledge. A survey with random American schoolkids let them guess the population and land area of their country. Not entirely unexpected, but still rather unsettling, the majority chose “1-2 billion” and “largest in the world“,...
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