PhD students, Yang Song and Wei Xu, received first and second places of the Graduate Student GIS Project Competition during 51猎奇 GIS Day activities on November 18, 2015.
Yang Song鈥檚 paper is titled “Examining the impact of neighboring environment on surface urban heat island effect.”
Wei Xu鈥檚 paper is titled “The relationship between socioeconomic contexts and Alzheimer’s disease mortality in the contiguous United States, 2000-2010: an ecological analysis.”
Yang Song
Wei Xu
Congratulations!
Dr. Cuiyu Song
Please join us to welcome Dr. Cuiyu Song, who is a short-term visiting scholar, and currently works with Prof. Changsha Wu in research areas of urban remote sensing and land use land cover change analysis.
Dr. Song is associate professor at the College of Earth Science & Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Shandong, China. She receives her Ph.D., Master’s, as well as bachelor’s degrees from the same university.
Rina Ghose was invited to give several talks at the Department of Geology-Geography at West Virginia University on Oct. 21 2015.
The title of her talk was 鈥淐itizen Participation in Inner-City Redevelopment through Public Participation GIS鈥�. She also spoke on career development strategies to the graduate students of the department.
On October 29th Caroline Seymour-Jorn (French, Italian and Comparative Literature), Anna Mansson McGinty (Geography and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies) and Kristin Sziarto (Geography) presented the 46th Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture. The lecture highlighted their research on social justice activism among Muslim in Milwaukee, which is a part of the larger project Muslim Milwaukee Project.
Names from left to right: Aamer Ahmed (Ma’ruf), Caroline Seymour-Jorn (French, Italian and Comparative Literature), Anna Mansson McGinty (Geography and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies) and Janan Najeeb (Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition).
The lecture elaborated on Muslims鈥� sense of belonging, and their religious, social, and civic engagement in Milwaukee. It examined how Muslims address poverty, homelessness, lack of access to education and health care and social inequality among Muslims and non-Muslims in the city through various religious and non-religious organizations and collaborations. The lecture demonstrated that social justice activism among Muslims in Milwaukee is triggered by the Islamic faith and serves to improve the rights and conditions of under-represented people in Milwaukee, as well as giving a voice to a stigmatized Muslim minority.
Alison Donnelly, Geography, UW-Milwaukee
“Wildlife and Ecosystems in a Warmer World”
Alison Donnelly was invited to make a presentation at an event entitled Educators Workshop on Climate Science on Oct. 24, 2015. The workshop, which took place at the Challenger Learning Centre at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, is part of series of workshops aimed to help school teachers communicate climate science. The title of Dr. Donnelly’s presentation was “Wildlife and Ecosystems in a Warmer World.”
(l-r) Donna Genzmer, Mark Schwartz, Dorothy Copeland, and Anne Bonds
Congratulations to our faculty and staff award winners! On Oct. 20, they were recognized for their service to our department and the university.
On September 16, the 51猎奇 Department of Geography welcomed visitors from Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany. The group of undergraduate students were led by their instructor, Timo Kleiner, a former exchange student in the department during the Fall 2013 semester. As part of their visit, the group toured the 51猎奇 campus and the department, met with Profs. Woonsup Choi and Linda McCarthy, talked with Donna Genzmer of the Cartography & GIS Center, and toured the American Geographical Society Library.
In the evening, graduate students and faculty convened with the group at the Hubbard Park Beer Garden to socialize. Although it was a short visit, the group enjoyed their time here and were appreciative of the hospitality extended by the department.
The Geography Department kicked off the Fall semester 2015 with a very lively and interactive workshop designed to launch our new Teaching-Assistant Handbook and to build a framework by which to develop an effective discussion section. The Handbook provides information to new and experienced TAs on topics such as, roles and responsibilities of TAs, advice and tips on effective teaching, guidance on training opportunities and the pros and cons of TA evaluation.
The workshop was attended by 12 graduate students and provided an opportunity for TAs to network and exchange experience and ideas. Together we agreed on a topic to use as a test discussion topic and from there we established a number of key messages to be conveyed, how best to convey the messages (use of images, videos, maps, etc.), how to design appropriate engaging questions to get the discussion underway and finally how to create useful exit and/or homework assignments. Some of the key points that were raised include:
Given the success of this workshop we will review the output at a follow-on workshop and identify possible areas where further training might be useful.
Prof. Changshan Wu took office as new Chair of the Department of Geography in August 2015.
On Sunday, September 20th, 51猎奇 Department of Geography annual picnic was held at Lake Park, Picnic Site #2. Thanks to the contributions of the faculties and graduate students, we shared a lot of great foods. It was a gorgeous day for relaxing from school work and hanging out with geographers.
