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Wealth & Poverty | Internship Shows Realities of Housing Insecurity

Kees Vande Stadt at his internship in Saint Joseph’s Carpenter Society is a nonprofit organization in East Camden, NJ.

By Kees Vande Stadt ’19 Junior in Geography and Wealth and Poverty Certificate Intern with Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty Saint Joseph’s Carpenter Society is a nonprofit organization based out of East Camden, NJ, a place where affordable housing and poverty have been and still are major issues. Saint […]

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July 30, 2017 at 10:02 amNews

Career Corner | Eureka Midstream Offers Fall GIS Internship

Career Corner | Eureka Midstream Offers Fall GIS Internship

Eureka Midstream LLC offers a fall GIS internship in Marietta, OH. Job Title: GIS Intern – Fall 2017 Paid Position Position location: 27710 State Rt 7, Marietta, OH  45750 General Summary: Compile GIS as-built data library using basic GIS tools and processes Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Coordinate and organize GIS […]

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July 19, 2017 at 2:28 pmNews

Urban and Regional Planning Alum ‘Detangles the Knot’ of City Geography

Alum Kyle May currently works as a city planner in Columbus

by Kristin Distel “The second you start to detangle the knot of the urban world, it hooks you,” says Ohio University alum Kyle May, a self-described “geography nerd.” May earned a B.S. in Geography—Urban Planning from the College of Arts & Sciences in 2009. Since 2011, May has worked as […]

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July 11, 2017 at 3:52 pmAlumni

Geography Awards and Recognition, 2016-17

The Geography Department presented its awards and recognition for 2016-17 at Geofest. Vanessa Thiel, Geography Urban Planning & Sustainability major, was named a Margaret Boyd Scholar. Lauren Smith, Geography Environmental Pre-Law major, was named a Margaret Boyd Scholar. The Olive Emler Ross Scholarship in Geography Alex Prosser, Meteorology Susan Beveridge, Geography Ethan […]

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May 28, 2017 at 3:04 pmNews

Whitson Talks to Graduates about How Work Is ‘Counted’

Dr. Risa Whitson, Associate Professor of Geography and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program delivers the graduate commencement address. Photo by Ben Siegel

From Compass Informal work—and how it is “counted”—is an important in changing economic structures and gender performances, said Dr. Risa Whitson, Associate Professor of Geography and in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. She was the keynote speaker at the Graduate Commencement on April 28. Most of her research is based […]

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May 2, 2017 at 2:16 pmNews

Sidney Daily News on Anderson | ’20 Percent of U.S. Population Can Trace Ancestry to Germany’

Dr. Timothy Anderson

The Sidney Daily News reported on a speech by Dr. Timothy Anderson, Associate Professor of Geography, in a story about New Knoxville’s past, subtitled “German migration subject of society dinner.” NEW KNOXVILLE — German immigrants who settled in west central Ohio during the early 19th century were part of a […]

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April 23, 2017 at 2:36 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Math, Geography Grad Students Get Outstanding Teaching Awards

Shehzad Ahmed

By Emily Bartelheim From Compass Two College of Arts & Sciences students—Shehzad Ahmed from Mathematics and Dana Williams from Geography—were among four Ohio University students presented with the Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award during the annual ceremony April 13. The Graduate Associate Outstanding Teaching Award program was established in 1987 […]

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April 17, 2017 at 3:29 pmNews