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Byron "Doc" Augustin is a KU geography alum (M.A.). He was also my undergraduate advisor at Texas State and a huge part of the reason I decided on KU over other schools. It's always nice to see Jayhawks doing well.
Submitted by Josh Long, KU Department of Geography Ph.D. candidate, on 6/27/07.

Augustin on bus

Since August 2006, Jason Woods (M.A., 2006) has been working with Paz y Esperanza, a human rights NGO in Lima, Peru, through the Young Adult Volunteer program of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Jason in Peru

Upper left: Standing atop the peak of Huayna Picchu, a mountain overlooking the archaeological site Macchu Picchu.
Upper right: Posing with a child who happened to be wearing a KU Starter jacket on the train from Huancayo to Huancavelica.
Lower left: Posing with friends in La Oroya, one of the world's ten most-polluted cities. Jason and others from the United States spent the week in town accompanying the youth of La Oroya in an event designed to increase awareness about the situation there.
Lower right: Hiking in the Andes outside of Huaraz.


Shaklee YSU professor Ron Shaklee (MA 1979, PhD 1983) strums his guitar on campus. Shaklee is the author of a song called “The Living Jewels of the Land, the Sky and Sea,” which has been recorded and released for play in the Bahamas. Click here for the entire article from the Youngstown State University eUpdate.