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Geography

From Iowa to Ohio: New Faculty Member Sets Sights on Urban and Suburban Challenges

We are thrilled to welcome Assistant Professor Patrick Bitterman, Ph.D., who joined us as a new tenure-track faculty member in the Department of Geography at ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University this semester! Bitterman comes to us from the School of Global Integrative Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln…

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College of Arts & Sciences

Exhibit featuring Bea McPherson

Distinguished Alumna Helps Open Exhibit Showcasing Women’s Role in Cartography During World War II

The Military Mapping Maidens of World War II exhibit is now on display on the first floor of the ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University Library through November 15.  Who were the Mapping Maidens? The exhibit, sponsored by the Department of Geography, highlights the unique military service of Kent Stat…

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An irrigation canal runs through a Cambodian rice field

ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Study Challenges Conventional Wisdom ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Cambodian Genocide

A recent publication by ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì geographers sheds more light on the causes of the Cambodian genocide that wiped out roughly a quarter of the country’s population in the late 1970s. Co-authored with ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì geography professor James Tyner in ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì’s College of Arts and Sciences, doctoral …

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Department of Geography

Geography Awareness Week

November 16-22 Too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens. National Geographic created Geography Awareness Week to raise awareness to this dangerous deficiency in American education and excite …

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ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì Geographer Earns Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award for War Research

The concepts of mass violence and war evoke strong emotions for most people – and the thought of where they have occurred is often a side note. But one ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University professor’s unique perspective on the geography of these events has resulted in recognition of his work in the geographic rese…

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