Weekly News News Archive
The deadline to submit abstracts for the 18th Marshall COLA Conference is fast approaching. This is a great venue for you to present the research and findings of your capstone projects. For further info, please go to http://mds.marshall.edu/colaconf/ Also, the Applied Geography Conference will be holding its annual meeting at Kent State University from October 31st to November
Do you have any plans for the summer? This week we would like to emphasize to students the importance of maximizing opportunities during summer break. I know what you are thinking, spring break is not even here and we already talking about summer. Well, the reality is that not having a plan for the summer,
Great Departmental News this week! The 2+2 articulations between Marshall’s geography program and Mountwest Community Technical College (MCTC) have officially been signed by President Gilbert. With this approval, MCTC becomes the third 2+2 program to articulate with the geography program at Marshall (the other two being: Palomar College in California and Roane State Community College
[efsthumbnail sdsd src=”http://www.marshall.edu/geography/files/phil-300×226.png”] Punxsutawney Phil- Dr. Law’s prediction instrument Attention geography majors, the Marshall University Geography Club will be hosting its first meeting on Wednesday, February 14th at 2:30PM in HH 237. The Geography Department kindly asks all its students (grad and undergrad) and faculty to attend the meeting. The department will be going over the
Geography alumna, Megan Click (M.A. 2015), now runs her own department at Mountwest Community & Technical College. Megan (at left with Dr. James Leonard) is the program coordinator for the Geospatial Information Science program at Mountwest Community and Technical College, and she is credited with reviving the program. In fall 2017, they had a record
Attention geography majors concentrating in physical geography, meteorology or weather broadcasting. The University of South Florida in Tampa, FL is recruiting current freshman but who will be sophomores by fall 2018, for the 2018 summer funded opportunity where you will receive research experience in the area of weather, climate, and society. This opportunity is targeted
Welcome to the New Year! Hopefully everyone had a chance to see family and friends during the break, and more importantly managed to stay warm. I think we should have Dr. Law explain how did we go from a “bomb cyclone” to temperatures in the 60s in the middle of January? Academic Opportunities 1) Texas
Congratulations to Amber Miller who this past weekend earned a Master of Arts degree in Geography, and a graduate minor in Environmental Studies. Amber also completed a summer internship at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee. Amber, we wish you the best in all future endeavors, and please keep us posted with your achievements, we would certainly
Remembering Dr. Mack H. Gillenwater [efsthumbnail sdsd src=”http://www.marshall.edu/geography/files/pastedImage.png”] June 22, 1934 – December 12, 2017 Earlier in the week we briefly informed the geography community at Marshall University of the passing of Dr. Mack Gillenwater. A valued member of the Geography Department and the Marshall academic community. We would like to take this opportunity to
We begin this week with news from a current major in the department, Ann Lockard, who was interviewed by the host of Inside Appalachia– a radio show that tells the rich cultural history of Appalachia and its people. Ann reports that “the questions revolved around homesickness for Appalachia and why WV is “different” than other places.” Ann