Departmental Student Awards to be Presented at Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture this Friday, April 29

Three different departmental award categories will be presented to outstanding students at this Friday's Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture, April 29 at 3:30 pm in Room 180 Science Hall. All department of Geography students, faculty, staff, and friends are encouraged to attend and offer congratulations to our hard-working students !

Some awards include a monetary component as well. The award categories are:

Undergraduate Awards:

• -- Excellence of Scholarship
• -- Undergraduate Achievement in Geography
• -- Undergraduate Achievement in Cartography
• -- Student Symposium Paper Award

Graduate Awards:

• -- Outstanding Professional Paper by a Graduate Student
• -- Outstanding Teaching Assistant
• -- Student Symposium Paper Award

Barbara Bartz Petchenik Memorial Awards

• -- Undergraduate Award in Cartographic Design, 1st place
• -- Undergraduate Award in Cartographic Design, 2nd place
• -- Graduate Award in Cartographic Design, 1st place
• -- Graduate Award in Cartographic Design, 2nd place

Glenn Trewartha Honorary Lecture With Dr. Paul Robbins

Dr. Paul Robbins will present the annual Glenn Trewartha Lecture at the Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Series this Friday, April 29, at 3:30 pm.

Dr. Robbins is Associate Professor of Geography at University of Arizona. The lecture title is: "Are Forests Expanding or Contracting in India?  Thinking Geographically About Environments in Upheaval."

Readings by Paul Robbins:

• Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn
• Fixed categories in a portable landscape: the causes and consequences of land-cover categorization
• The Last Enclosure: Resisting Privatization of Wildlife in the Western United States

Dr. Robbins will also be offering a brown bag at noon on Thursday, April 28. His interests include: Political ecology, pastoralism, American urban ecology, Rajasthan India & USA. His website http://geog.arizona.edu/faculty.htm.

Dr. Robert Kitchin to Lecture Tuesday, April 26 at Noon

Dr. Robert Kitchin, Director, National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) and Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth will lecture this Tuesday, April 26 at noon, Room 444 in Science Hall. His lecture will be on "Calculative Travel and the Geographies of Control Creep."

Dr. Kitchin's interests include: Social and cultural geography, with particular interests in the geographies of disability, sexuality and cyberspace. The NUIM web site is: http://www.nuim.ie/academic/geography/ .

M. Beth Schlemper Keynote Speech at Student Symposium

The 2005 Student Symposium Committee welcomed the keynote address of the Symposium by M. Beth Schlemper, Assistant Professor of Geography, Illinois State University. Dr. Schlemper received her Ph.D in Geography from UW-Madison in 2003.

Schlemper's address, "The Making and Unmaking of Wisconsin’s Holyland," was held in 180 Science Hall on Friday, April 22 at 4:15-5:15 pm.

A reception sponsored by the undergrad Geography Club followed the keynote address.

See the Program for the 2005 Student Symposium >

Leila M. Harris Named Professor of the Month by Geography Undergrads

The Madison Geographic newsletter reports that Prof. Leila M. Harris has been selected as Professor of the Month by geography Club undergrads. A story compiled by Kara McGurk features Prof. Harris' answers to questions such as "What started you in geography?" and "What strangest place have you traveled to?".

Dr. Harris received her Ph.D from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and has taught Introduction to Human Geography; Environment, Culture Politics in North America; International Environmental Justice and the graduate seminar Gender, Space, and Environment. She is affiliated with the Institute for Environmental Studies, Women’s Studies, Middle East Studies, Sustainability and Global Environment (SAGE) and the Land Tenure Center.

Bob Sack Delivers Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture

Prof. Robert D. Sack delivered the April 15 Yi-Fu Tuan lecture at Science Hall. Addressing his new research underway, the talk was entitled "Facing the Gap: What Geographic Theory Has To Say About Agency, Society, and Nature."

After the "unplugged" and thought-provoking lecture, Sack and lecture attendees gathered per custom on the Union Terrace to enjoy the first good weather of Spring in Madison.

Dr. Sack is the Clarence Glacken and John Bascome Professor of Geography and Professor of Integrated Liberal Studies at the UW-Madison. His two most recent books are A Geographical Guide to the Real and the Good (2003) and Homo Geographicus: A Framework for Action, Awareness, and Moral Concern (1997).

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Ruddiman to Speak on Climate

Professor William Ruddiman, Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia, delivered a lecture on April 1, 2005 in the Yi-Fu Tuan Series entitled:  "Human Influences on Climate Began Thousands of Years Ago". The Lecture co-sponsor was the Center for Climatic Research (CCR).