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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.
Barbara McCorkle's "Cartobibliography" added to KU Scholarworks
GIS Day @ KU is part of a nationwide event to promote awareness of geographic information systems (GIS), and how we use this evolving tool to analyze our world. We continue our tradition of bringing together a community of GIS users from academia, business and government.
The 2009 symposium will also include an information fair with vendors from academia and local business that will run throughout the day. As always, GIS Day @ KU is FREE and open to the public. Please register so we can plan for ample refreshments and provide pre-printed name tags.
KU News Release
Professors selected for Chancellors Club awards
http://www.news.ku.edu/2009/september/22/chancellorsclub.shtml
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If you would like to get better at weather forecasting, the WxChallenge is a very good opportunity. The WxChallenge is a national forecast contest administered by the University of Oklahoma, which allows you to compete against some of the best collegiate forecasters in the country.
For more information, please visit the Atmospheric Science homepage or e-mail nlock@ku.edu
Congratulations to Atmo major Anne Alexandra Glanville on her C.E. Spahr Scholarship in the Sciences, John P. Feighner Scholarship and Veta B. Lear Memorial Award. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas honored 73 students with more than $77,000 in scholarships and awards this spring. All the scholarship recipients and most award winners are attending classes at KU this fall. The scholarships and awards, which are made possible by gifts to KU Endowment from alumni and friends, were awarded based on merit, need or both. “These students represent the most talented young scholars in the College. I am grateful that we are able to offer this support to foster their success,” said Interim Dean Gregory B. Simpson.
Today's Kansas City Star front page article, "Advocates of geoengineering work on man-made fixes for global warming," features Geography Professor Johan Feddema.
Johan Feddema will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Linda Hall Library Climate Change Symposium to be held Friday, October 16, 2009.
Please join us in congratulating Pete Shortridge who has been selected as a 2009 Chancellors Club Teaching Award recipient. The formal award will be presented at a reception in the Kansas Union prior to the football game and again on the field during the game on October 10th. Pete has been a great contributor and example to our Department, and is very deserving of this unique award. We can be proud to have such an outstanding colleague, teacher and friend. Please congratulate Pete the next time you see him.
Congratulations to our 2009 Geography and Atmospheric Science Graduates!
Photo used with the permission of Stephanie Meador
Congratulations are in order for Dave Mechem who received the J. Michael Young Academic Advisor Award for 2008-2009 in the Natural Sciences Division of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences! The award honors exemplary advising by a faculty member in each of the three divisions of the college.
The following are some grants, awards and honors that our graduate students have received during the past couple of months:
Congratulations everyone!
Congratulations to Jerry Dobson on being named Jefferson Science Fellow by U.S. State Department
Congratulations to Kees van der Veen on his promotion to Full Professor.
Dan Hirmas, Bill Johnson and Steve Bozarth launch a new Soil Geomorphology Research Group website.
See who came to the Atmo Reunion.
Congratulations to Jerry Dobson on his receipt of the 2009 AAG GISSG Robert T. Aangeenbrug Distinguished Career Award.
Congratulations to Garth Myers for being named a Hall Center Fellow for one semester during the 2009-2010 academic year.
Congratulations are in order for Andrew Allen -- Andrew was a member of the University of Wyoming World Geography Team, which won the Association of American Geographers (AAG) regional geography bowl competition for the second consecutive year.
Congratulations to Dan Rose, who, (on behalf of the City of Topeka ) recently received KAM’s ( Kansas Association of Mappers) prestigious 2008 ‘Outstanding Kansas Mapping Project Award’!
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| Attending a reception for KU Kemper award winners for 2008 is (l to r) Geography Department Chair Terry Slocum with former Kemper winners Garth Myers (2000), Steve Egbert (2005), Chris Brown (2006), and this year's winner Shannon O'Lear. |
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.
