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Building Bridges Conference 2013
This year’s Building Bridges Conference is titled “Sentenced For Life: Confronting the Calamity of Mass Incarceration” and is scheduled for Saturday, March 9, 2013, at…
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Dr. Bjelland authors urban books review
Geography Professor Mark Bjelland has published a comparative book review of Justice and the American Metropolis and Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban…
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Hip to Be Square? Maybe Not!
The advent of multi-touch displays, such as those found in iPads, has radically transformed the way we interface with spatial data. But as David Daw…
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Haiti 3 years after the quake
This month marks the third-year anniversary of the January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake. Ben and Alexi, two Americans living in Haiti since 2008, have a…
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Divest Gustavus looks at college investments that contribute to global warming
Widely-read author, speaker, and environmental activist Bill McKibben tweets today “Divestment comes to Minnesota–real thanks to students at Gustavus!” A group of Gustavus students is…
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Whose ecosystem is it anyway?
Here’s a nice essay on the concept of ecosystem services and some of the problems it presents by Joy Merwin Monteiro, a PhD student at…
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The Geographic Center of Hipness
Geography major Jory Birkeland did a class project exploring the geographic center of hipness for the Twin Cities. The theoretical basis for his work is…
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Congress’ voting record on gun rights
After the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings last week, the national debate on gun rights and gun control is raised once again. The New York Times…
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Geography Association Announces Awards
One way for students to get a better understanding of the discipline of geography in America is to see who wins the Association of American…
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Escalating war in Congo
Violence has been escalating in the eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), in central Africa. Foreign Policy writes that Goma,…
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