2011 RRRC Regional Planning Internship Program

The Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission (RRRC), based in Culpeper, VA, is soliciting applications from qualified and competitive candidates interested in seeking summer internship experience in the field of regional planning. The ultimately selected candidate will be extended an invitation to join Commission staff as a short-term, stipended employee and engage in meaningful work on a number of challenging area initiatives.… Read the rest

Spring is always a time to recognize achievements so please join me in congratulating:

Sarah McNeal (2011) and Afton Jenkins (2011) for winning UMW Writing Center Awards for their senior seminar papers.  I’m proud that Sarah and Afton are continuing what has become a tradition for Geography Majors.  I can’t think of more than one year in the last decade in which a student enrolled in one of our classes did not win this award.

Zac Wehrmann (2011) was just … Read the rest

The George Washington Regional Commission is looking for at least one intern this summer.  Applications are due by April 1, 2011.… Read the rest

Andrew Peters (UMW 2007) has just informed us of the following internship at Dewberry’s Fairfax office.… Read the rest

Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists. Samuel Johnson A couple of weeks ago, I wrote here about a tuk-tuk journey through Phnom Penh.… Read the rest

If you are interested, follow news about the twin disasters beginning with last night’s earthquake with Jackie Gallagher’s Natural Hazards students on their blog.… Read the rest

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I am an urban being. I love cities. To me, life in suburbia is a sentence, not an aspiration. And while I appreciate the beauty of nature and the countryside, it wouldn’t take more than a few weeks of bucolic existence to drive me crazy. But all cities are not created equal. For me, the measure of a city is in how much its residents use public space. A city where everyone is shut up in an office, apartment, house,… Read the rest