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Greetings! We welcome your interest in the faculty, students, and activities of the Department of Geography at KU, and hope that our Web site provides you with a comprehensive sense of the things that interest us and the things we do. For those things that pique your interest or intrigue you, we invite you to contact us directly - we will be happy to respond personally.
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Geography welcomes new faculty members Dan Hirmas, Jay Johnson, and Barney Warf to the department.
Upcoming event: Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Houston, TX, October 3-9, 2008.
Papers will be presented by Dan Hirmas, Bill Johnson, Mark Bowen and Alan Halfen.
See titles here.
Congratulations to Ava Dinges and Andrew Oberthaler who have won American Meteorological Society Undergraduate Scholarships! Congratulations also to Sylvia Davison who has won an AMS Minority Scholarship and plans to come to KU.
Terry Slocum has been named a 2008-2009 senior administrative fellow. The program allows selected faculty the opportunity to explore senior administration through meeting with senior administrators, visiting administrative units across campus and discussing national trends in higher education. Read more here.
Jerome E. Dobson, professor of geography, has received the 2008 CaGIS Award of Distinction.
Dobson is well-known for his tenure at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1975-2001), where he established himself as an advocate for maintaining a tight bond between GIS and geography. He has also helped found the Association of American Geographers GIS Specialty Group and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, subsequently holding leadership roles in both organizations.
Quote from June 9, 2008 issue of Oread, KU People page.
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Research Matters broadcast features Geography Professor Johannes Feddema speaking about Landcover and Climate Change. |
photo courtesy of University Relations |
LAWRENCE — On May 20, David Braaten and Johannes Feddema, both professors of geography at the University of Kansas, met for the first time with other members of the Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group in Wichita. Earlier in the month, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius named the two KU experts to the panel that is tasked with exploring how the state could cut greenhouse gas emissions. Click for entire article.
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Congratulations to the Atmospheric Science Program on receiving the Cooperative Observer Award from the National Weather Service for the University's weather station near Lindley Hall. The station is one of the oldest of Kansas' stations. Pictured, left to right, are Richard McNulty, Johannes Feddema, Curtis Hall, Bill Newman of the National Weather Service, David Mechem, Donna Tucker and Terry Slocum. To read more, please click here. |
Congratulations are in order for awards recently received by students and faculty:
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Graduate Students
Megan Holroyd has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad fellowship to study KiSwahili this summer in Arusha, Tanzania.
Brett Chloupek has received another $27,000 FLAS award to continue his study of Polish.
Heather Putnam has received a $6,500 FLAS to study KiSwahili for the summer term at the Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI).
Luke Struckman has received a $6,500 FLAS to study 3rd year Arabic in Morocco.
Hilary Hungerford has earned a 2nd year $27,000 FLAS to study Hausa. She has also received the 2008 Outstanding Thesis Award from the College, and the Howard Baumgartel Peace and Justice Award for 2008.
Ryan Good and Megan Holroyd earned $4000 fellowships from the African Studies Center, for Applied Research on African Health and Development through funding from the Oswald Family Foundation.
Undergraduate Students
Jennifer Kongs and Lucas Culbertson have been selected from the Geography Department to receive Harley S. Nelson Scholarships for 2008-2009.
Faculty
Chris Brown has received the 2008 John C. Wright Graduate Mentor Award. "This annual award is given to honor a faculty member in the College who demonstrates exceptional effort, care and guidance in the advisement of his/her graduate students." The award includes a prize of $500.
Bill Johnson has received the 2008 Byron A. Alexander Graduate Mentor Award. "This annual award is given to honor a faculty member in the College who demonstrates exceptional effort, care and guidance in the advisement of his/her graduate students." The award includes a prize of $500.
Thanks to those graduate students who nominated Chris and Bill!
Chancellor E.H. Lindley spent two years fussing with Gov. Jonathan M. Davis and the Board of Administration over matters large and small. After his defeat by Republican Ben S. Paulen in November 1924, Davis fired Lindley, but Paulen reinstated him as soon as he took office in mid-January 1925. Lindley retired in 1939 and died soon after; the mineral resources building was named for him when it opened in 1943. For more, visit www.buildings.ku.edu.
