Erin Tang delighted Geography personnel and passers by in Ellison Hall with her live and lively violin music during lunch time last Friday. Erin has a part-time internship in Geography and is a senior, majoring in Political Science with a minor in History. Apart from classical violin music which she has studied for 12 years, Erin also enjoys ballroom dancing and learning new languages (she’s fluent in Spanish and Chinese). All...
Read MoreThe editor jumped the gun by announcing the Dangermond Travel Awards for Winter 2011 in the February 22 article, insofar as five more grad students beat the February 28 deadline and have also been awarded Dangermond Travel Stipends this year. The funds are used to enable students to present GIS-related work at conferences and workshops, and the following grad students also are to be congratulated: Guofeng Cao for a presentation of...
Read MoreStephen Cartwright is an artist and cyclist living in Urbana Illinois, currently teaching sculpture at the University of Illinois. Since 1999, he has recorded his exact latitude, longitude, and elevation every hour of every day, no mean feat insofar as he’s completed nearly 25,000 miles worth of bicycle journeys throughout North America, Asia, and Europe to date. Cartwright uses digital and traditional fabrication techniques to...
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