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A July 15 article in the Wall Street Journal by Miriam Jordan points out the following: “The skyrocketing growth of Latinos in the U.S., once driven by immigration, is now fueled by births, chiefly by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. The size of the country’s fastest-growing group has increased 43% since 2000, and more than doubled since 1990, to 50.5 million last...

Six Geography graduate students have been awarded Dangermond Travel Stipends this summer. The funds are used to enable students to present GIS-related work at conferences and workshops. Congratulations to the following applicants and many thanks to Jack and Laura Dangermond who established this fund for the UCSB Department of Geography: Gargi Chaudhuri who will attend the Geocomputation 2011 conference in London, July 20-22, and give...

It’s not surprising that Evanne St. Charles, class of 2011, was selected as the keynote speaker at this year’s California Higher Education Sustainability Conference hosted by California State University, Long Beach, July 10-14. Not only did Evanne double major in Geography and Art History (architecture and environment emphasis), graduate with Highest Honors, and win the Outstanding Achievement in Geography Award,...