Thursday, March 16; 7 p.m. Tilton Hall (2nd floor, University Center) Arturo Escobar will present this year’s Wallace W. Atwood Lecture, “Designs for the Pluriverse: Autonomy, Territoriality, and the Communal.” The lecture is sponsored by the Graduate School of Geography. Contact Kayla Peterson for more information.
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GIS Help Desk announces expanded hours
GIS Help now available for every day of the week!The Geography department has hired a second undergraduate GIS Help Desk Assistant! Our newest employee is Saira Khan, a junior double major in Geography and IDSC. Since we also have Amy Phillips working for the rest of the semester as our first GIS Help Desk Assistant,…
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April 4: Caren Grown talks about gender mainstreaming and foreign aid
Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Is Foreign Aid Effective? A talk by Caren Grown, Ph.D. Friday, April 4; 1-2:30 p.m. Lurie Conference Room Prof. Grown is the former Senior Gender Advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID, 2011-13), where she led the agency’s efforts to integrate broader gender issues in foreign assistance,…
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Prof. Koelsch’s “Geography and the Classical World” named an Outstanding Academic Title
Emeritus professor of geography William Koelsch’s recent book, “Geography and the Classical World: unearthing historical geography’s forgotten past” (I. B. Taurus, 2013), has been named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2013 in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. In the July 2013 issue, reviewer G. J. Martin of Southern Connecticut State University gave “Geography and…
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GIS Week 2013 is Nov. 18-22
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Graduate School of Geography Fall 2013 Colloquium Series continues Oct. 3
The fall 2013 Colloquium series hosted by the Graduate School of Geography is underway! Guest speakers are coming from far and wide this year to present their research during these one-hour public sessions. Seminars are open to all in the Clark community and will take place from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in Jefferson Academic Center,…
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Apply now for the 2013 Peter J. Condakes Research Fellowship
Applications are now being accepted for the 2013 Peter J. Condakes Research Fellowship! This award is open to undergraduate sophomores and juniors in Geography and Global Environmental Studies (GES) majors, as well as Earth System Science (ESS) concentrators with an interest in environmental concerns. The recipient of the fellowship will receive a $1,500 stipend to…
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Prof. Gil Pontius is lauded for ‘out of the box’ GIS lecture in Netherlands
Professor Gilmore Pontius, of Clark’s Graduate School of Geography, gave the traditional Schermerhorn lecture at the ITC: Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente, Netherlands. Speaking to an audience of 350 people, including 120 newly arrived master’s students from 36 countries, Prof. Pontius explained the merits of learning the latest…
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Clark Labs receives $1.8 million grant to develop land-use software
Clark Labs is the recipient of a two-year, $1.8 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop a decision support software application for land management. Clark Labs is based within the world-renowned Graduate School of Geography at Clark University and is the developer of the IDRISI GIS and Image Processing software, upon which…