Minnesota Reception now part of Southwest by Midwest

The Minnesota Reception, our annual get together at the AAG has a new look this year.
We've joined forces with UW-Madison to sponsor "Southwest by Midwest."

Please join us at the Stitch Bar on Saturday night, February 25th in NYC!

Stitch Lounge (downstairs)
247 West 37th Street (between 7th and 8th Ave)
8pm to Close

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This is a co-production with UW-Madison and includes Exeter and Bristol! Don't Miss Out!

Chris Strunk and Helga Leitner in The Nation

Ph.D. student Chris Strunk and Geography Professor Helga Leitner have a new article in The Nation titled "Redefining Secure Communities." Read it here!

City Redistricting and Jeff Matson's Geography 5564 - Urban GIS

Geography 5564, Urban GIS, was recently highlighted in the MNDaily. The class, taught by Jeff Matson, welcomed Mike Dean, executive director for Common Cause of Minnesota as part of project on redistricting that will create maps for Minneapolis city wards. The maps the class produces will be submitted to the city. Read the story here.

Yu Zhou

Yu Zhou, Professor of Earth Science and Geography at Vassar College and an alum of the U of M's Geography Department, has an article in the Huffington Post on the possibilities of fair trade as a way of addressing the controversy over Apple (and others') subcontractors in China. See the full article here.

Yu Zhou is also author of "The Inside Story of China's high-tech industry: Making Silicon Valley in Beijing." She received her Ph.D. from the Geography Department in 1995.