Alumnus Sean O’Conner (BS, 2005) just wrote to pass on the following announcement from Ray Waverly, speaking on behalf of the National Geographic Society’s Education Programs: We are getting ready to launch the Speak Up For Geography Campus Challenge at the AAG meeting next week. The goal of the Campus Challenge is to engage with university students to spread the message about the importance of geography in K-12 schools....
Read More“It cost 2.4 cents to make one penny in 2011 and about 11.2 cents for each nickel. Given the number of coins that the mint produces — 4.3 billion pennies and 914 million nickels last year alone, those costs add up pretty quickly: a little more than $100 million for each coin. But even though the Treasury has been studying new metals since 2010, it has yet to come up with a workable mix that would definitely be cheaper, and...
Read MoreProfessor Rick Church has just been elected to the Board of Directors of the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA). Founded in 1961, the WRSA is an international multidisciplinary group of university scholars and government and private-sector practitioners dedicated to the scientific analysis of regions. WRSA organizes an annual conference and provides awards for graduate students working in the field of regional science. The...
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