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From Ohio Today Two years ago, Zach Hadley ’19 was lost. The bright geography sophomore, making the grade with a high GPA, didn’t know where to start to land his first internship. “I had zero direction. Do I just mail resumes to people? Do I email CEOs? I had no […]

By Kaia Mckenney (Freshman in HTC Environmental Studies) The Wealth & Poverty theme took its spring field trip to Downtown Columbus on Saturday March 30. Led by Dr. Yeong Kim of Geography and Columbus-based urban planner Kyle May, 22 Ohio University students participated in the trip to examine growing patterns […]

Dr. Yeong Kim took 22 students, mostly from her Urban Geography class, but also from Geography-Urban Planning and Sustainability, International Development Studies, and the Wealth and Poverty certificate, to Downtown Columbus on March 30 to investigate several redevelopment sites, including the Scioto Mile, Franklinton, Short North, and Arena District. Although […]

The Ohio University Geography Department mourns the loss of alumnus Jonathon Hogue ’18M.S., who was found dead March 15 at Island in the Sky in Canyonlands National Park. Hogue served four years in the U.S. Air Force at Eglin Air Force Base before entering the Air Force Reserves at Wright […]

Dr. Ryan Fogt was featured in a Post story headlined “On Thin Ice: How Climate Change Presents Itself in Different Areas.” Fogt is Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Scalia Lab at Ohio University. He leads the Sustainable Administration Hub at OHIO. …Fogt has several research projects on […]

Dr. Geoff Buckley, Professor of Geography, delivered the Richard H. Foster lecture on Feb. 1 at the 48th annual Frank Church Symposium at Idaho State University. The theme of this year’s symposium was “The Best and Worst of Us: Confronting Injustices in the World.” Buckley’s paper was titled “Environmental Justice: Pattern, Process, […]

The Post talked to Dr. Yeong Kim, Associate Professor of Geography and coordinator of the Wealth & Poverty theme,  in a story headlined “Week on Immigrants speakers to discuss immigration at national and local levels.” At a time when discussions on immigration are especially heated, Ohio University is providing students […]