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January, 2007:

The Geography Department is very pleased to welcome two visiting professors who joined our faculty last fall.

Linda Scharn Fair (Ph.D., Rutgers) specializes in migration theory and the spatial dispersal of refugees and asylum seekers across the globe.
This Spring Prof. Fair will teach Geog 101 -- Introduction to Geography, and Geog 347/547 -- Geography of Globalization.

Haifeng (Charlie) Zhang (Ph.D., University of South Carolina) specializes in GISsciences with applications in education, crime, public policy and urban/regional planning.
Prof. Zhang will teach Geog 233 -- Urban Geography: Race and Place, Geog 259 -- East Asia: Land and People and Geog 361/505 -- Intro to Raster GIS and GPS.

We are also proud to announce that members of our faculty helped to plan and direct two national conferences this past fall.

Burrell Montz was Co-Director of the 29th Applied Geography Conference which took place October 11 to 14 in Tampa, FL.

John Frazier was Co-Director of the Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference '06 which took place November 1-4 in San Marcos, Tx.

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Department Info

The Goals of the Department of Geography are:

to provide all qualified students quality academic instruction in geography,

to foster and advance teaching, research and publication in the discipline of geography,

to provide the expertise of geographers to the community at large so that public and private sector decision makers may enhance the quality of their decisions.

Geography Department Photo Galleries
Reception for Prof. Shin-yi Hsu April 2006	Graduate Student Luncheon May 2006	Graduate Student Parties April-May 2006	Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference November 1-4, 2006

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