Dog Therapy Day, hosted by UCSB’s Health & Wellness Center, is a great way for students to de-stress at the end of the quarter. The hands-on, interactive therapy is provided by Love on a Leash, the Foundation for Pet-Provided Therapy, and “Linkin,” one of Geography Professor Tommy Dickey’s purebred Great Pyrenees, is the star on its poster. According to UCSB Health & Wellness, 98% of dog owners report...
Read More“Within the United States, the most well respected ranking system for graduate degree programs is the National Research Council (NRC). In 2010, the NRC released its rankings for geography departments. The NRC used multiple factors by which to rank geography departments such as time to degree, faculty input, and publications. Based on the aggregate results of that 2010 study, the site PhDs.org has ranked the top ten geography...
Read MoreA posting on UCSB’s Geography Facebook page that linked to an article which summarized how Oliver Chadwick teamed up with archaeologists to clarify factors that contributed to the demise of early Rapa Nui society on Easter Island went viral. The posting was made on January 28, 2015, at 1:50 p.m., and it had only reached 12 people an hour later. Then things went crazy. At that point in time, the Geography Facebook page had...
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