Two of the five papers selected for the Doctoral Honors Paper competition at this year’s annual SEDAAG meeting in Starkville, Mississippi are from UNCG. They include Makoto Ikegaya who will be presenting a paper titled “The Geography of the Creative Class in the Greater Tokyo Area” and Pankaj Bajracharya who… Continue reading…
Martha Bridges Sharma (B.A. in Geography ’67), in addition to having a truly remarkable career, has been a wonderful supporter of our department. Geography has been called a “discovery” major, and her path is no exception. “When I took geography, I realized that it was exactly what I was looking for,”… Continue reading…
Dr. Stine’s remote sensing team has been working in Salisbury, NC looking for the possible remnants of a Confederate prison building that once stood off East Bank Street in Salisbury. The Historic Salisbury Foundation sought the help of experts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. They chose a… Continue reading…
FOX8 WGHP interviewed Dr. Debbage about the recent announcement by Toyota to build an automobile plant in the US. Here is the link to where you can watch his interview and read the story: http://myfox8.com/2017/08/04/greensboro-randolph-megasite-ideal-for-toyota-mazda-plant-experts-say/
On Thursday, May 4th, faculty, staff, and friends of the Department of Geography came together for a reception to mark the upcoming retirements of two professors. Dr. Michael Lewis came to UNCG in 1988 from the University of Oklahoma, where he received his Ph.D. He was promoted to associate professor… Continue reading…
Russell Smith (PhD 2007) was recently featured prominently on the Winston Salem State University website regarding his research on race and place. He is an Associate Professor of Geography at WSSU. His dissertation advisor at UNCG was Dr. Keith Debbage.
David Perkins has recently been hired as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Geology and Planning at Missouri State University. He was previously at the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. At MSU, David will be teaching Geo-tourism and developing a Center for Sustainable Tourism. … Continue reading…
Dr. Corey Johnson was recently at the annual meeting of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS) in San Francisco where he and his co-author Dr. Reece Jones (University of Hawaii) accepted the ABS Past Presidents’ Gold Book Award for their edited volume Placing the Border in Everyday Life (Ashgate, 2014). This award… Continue reading…
Aaron Mackey (BA ’15) has received a NASA DEVELOP Summer internship. He will be working with Global Science and Technology, Inc. and NASA at the National Center for Environmental Information here in Asheville. His project will either pertain to cyclone vulnerability in the Philippines or ENSO events in Costa Rica…. Continue reading…
Dr. Selima Sultana, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies was honored at the Chancellor’s faculty excellence in research & creative activity reception on April 4, 2017 for her (co-edited) book entitled “Minicars, Maglevs, and Mopeds: Modern Modes of Transportation around the world” published by ABC-CLIO. Pictured at the honorees reception… Continue reading…
