L&S News  Tag: Geography

Professor of Geography speculates on the impacts of a warming winter to plants, wildlife and human activity in the Northern United States.

In a world dotted with mountains of geospatial data, Dr. Jonathan Nelson advocates for maps users can understand.

Assistant professor of geography will measure the impact of climate change on carbon emissions from Arctic wetlands.

UW–Madison employs over 2,100 teaching assistants (TAs) across its 200-plus undergraduate major and certificate programs. Whether teaching in lecture halls, classrooms, and labs on campus or leading learning opportunities in the wider community, their work is vital to fulfilling the university’s educational mission and the Wisconsin Idea.

UniverCity Alliance connects faculty research and student work with projects in Wisconsin's communities.

Yi-Fu Tuan, a towering intellectual figure and University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus of geography died at age 91. He was widely regarded as the father of humanistic geography and coined the idea of a "sense of place."

For a Madison firm mapping the future of broadband access in rural places, L&S students and alumni are key to success.

Professor of geography argues that preserving Wisconsin's wildlife diversity hinges on working in concert with private property owners.

Assistant Professor Jen Rose Smith of Geography has won a prestigious ACLS Fellowship for her transdisciplinary analysis of the social and material landscapes of ice. Drawing from archival research and cultural studies analyses of Indigenous literatures and popular Science discourse, Smith's project, titled Icy Matters: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality in Ice-Geographies examines ice in multiple ways.