As part of Mary Washington’s Homecoming Weekend, the Geography Department is hosting an Open House to show off our new facilities in Monroe Hall.

Please come by on October 22 between 1:00pm and 3:00pm.  We’ll serve light refreshments, play with the stream table, give a lesson in pollen analysis, and share student work and experiences from study abroad programs and GIS courses.

Afterwards, we’ll go down to the Capital Ale House on Caroline Street for drinks and conversation.

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GIS Lab Schedule 2011-2

Physical Lab Schedule Fall 2011… Read the rest

Monroe Hall was ‘rededicated’ on Friday, Sept 16 – dignitaries heard speeches in Palmieri Plaza, saw a large blue ribbon cut by President Hurley, and ate cake!  People toured the building and were duly impressed by our bright hallways, high-tech classrooms (two projectors & screens! screens for four ongoing presentations at the same time!), tall windows (light!) and a fourth floor where none previously existed. We had set up posters and displays showing our new equipment… the pollen analysis lab … Read the rest

It is my pleasure to announce the 2011 recipients of student research awards funded by the Geography 50^th Anniversary Endowment.  A committee of three faculty carefully reviewed student proposals and made the following awards:… Read the rest

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  In August 2011, I led a small group of American students on a study abroad program in South Africa. At the beginning of our trip we visited the Irene Concentration Camp Cemetery and Memorial near Pretoria, home to the remains of more than a thousand Afrikaners who died in a British internment camp during the Anglo Boer War. At the end of our tour, we spent some time at the Prestwich Memorial, a brand new repository of the recently… Read the rest

Yesterday at 4pm the club had its first meeting of 2011-12 – Tea Time in The Lab: Monroe 319-320!  We were able to raise the skyfold partition, so had the entire lab space open, like it used to be before the Monroe renovation.

President Chris Lutz had several different things to say:… Read the rest

Morgan Lamon (2012)  is one of five undergraduates in the United States to win a $5,000 scholarship from the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF). Congratulations Morgan!… Read the rest