Geography Student Receives Earth Science Award

Jacob Arndt, a graduating senior in Geography, was recently awarded the Newton H. Winchell Award for Excellence in Earth Science at the Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium that took place at Coffman Memorial Union on Friday, April 29. He won the award for his poster, which outlined how the upper-level jet affects commercial flight times in the Minneapolis-Seattle corridor. The poster was a part of his senior project. Congratulations Jacob!

Brown Day 2016

The annual GES Brown Day celebration was Friday, April 22. The day included student posters and presentations in the morning and early afternoon, followed by the Ralph H. Brown Memorial Lecture, Modeling Land-Change Processes Across Disciplines and Scales, presented this year by Professor Dan Brown of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.

GIS at UMN featured in Esri video

Esri, builder of ArcGIS - the most powerful mapping software in the world, recently released a video featuring University Services of the Twin Cities campus.  The film, which includes past and present MGIS students and faculty, shows how U Services utilizes GIS for asset management.

GES student receives NSF

GES Doctoral Fellow, Jessica Finlay, was recently awarded the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the Division of Geography and Spatial Sciences.  This grant will help her continue analysis of individual, household and neighborhood-level factors affecting the health and well-being of older adults.  Congratulations Jessica!

Geography Undergrad to present at Interdiciplinary conference

Geography student, Talia Anderson, will present a paper at the 4th annual Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Conference.  The conference, hosted by the Departments of Asian Languages, and Literatures, French and Italian, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, and the Institute for Global Studies, will be held April 6 - 8th in 1210 Heller Hall.  Talia's paper, titled: Mexican Immigration to the United States: An Open Gateway or a Closed Door?, will be part of a larger panel on Friday, April 8th from 10:45 - 12:15 p.m.  A full conference program will be available at  http://spanport.umn.edu/ugrad/UICProg2016.html.  Congratulations Talia!

Geography student in the media

PhD candidate and Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow, Jessica Finlay's research is featured on the Graduate School's website.  The story, Aging in the Right Place, will also appear in the next edition of The Synthesis, the weekly grad school electronic magazine.