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The 3rd Annual Geography Student Symposium Friday,
April 2, 2004 Welcome-2004 Geography Student Symposium Welcome to the 3rd Annual Geography Student Symposium. We are certain that you will rediscover the full richness and relevance of geography. Today's presenters are both graduate and undergraduate students, and the topics range the full breadth and depth of the discipline. After the success of last two years' symposia, we have had a great deal of support from the faculty, staff, and students. We are grateful to the past committee members for building a foundation that will lead to continued successful meeting of this type. Once again, there will be two awards of $100 each for the best graduate and undergraduate paper presented today. The evaluations you fill out for each presenter will help us in determining the award recipients. We have decided to continue the format from last year to make each session diverse by scheduling students from across the discipline within each hour. We hope that by doing this, we will give everyone a chance to learn what is going on throughout the department. It is easy for all of us students to get so caught up in our own work that we fail to notice the vitality of the discipline as a whole. There is a reason that most of us are geographers instead of geologists, ecologists, or sociologists. We hope that you will find this format enjoyable. We are grateful to Zoltan Grossman for taking the time to come back to Madison to give the keynote address today. Thanks to the faculty for the continued support they have shown for this event and to the undergraduate geography club for hosting the reception following the program. Finally, thanks to you for attending. We hope to see you again next year, as the student symposium becomes a bona fide tradition of this outstanding department. The 2004 Symposium Committee,
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