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Introduction Essay

Ethan Boroughs
1/13/16
My name is Ethan Boroughs and I am a sophomore at UR this year. I am from Hanover County, Virginia, which is about 30 minutes outside of Richmond. Through my years, I have traveled fairly extensively across the United States and …

Marissa's GeoVisMaps Blog 2016-01-14 10:43:30

In this course, I hope to expand my geospatial skills and learn new visualization technology. In my introductory GIS class, we touched upon cartography principles and map making. But we only made maps in ArcMap which has very limited functionality and …

Scott’s assignment 1

I’m the Humanities Liaison for the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology at the University of Richmond, and I’m a relatively new Spider. I’ve been at UR since October of 2014, so I still get lost on campus from time to time.
I’m taking …

Maps and Geovisulaization: Exploring History and GIS

Hi everyone! My name is Andrew Loesch and I am a Environmental Studies and Geography double major at the university. As of now, I have plans to add an Archaeology minor, classes permitting next year. I am strongly considering looking to continue my edu…

…to better support UR faculty in Geography and beyond.

I’ve been in the field of academic technology for ten years, and here at UR I serve as an Academic Technology Consultant for the Social Sciences — Journalism, Political Science, Geography, etc.
It’s my first time supporting these disc…

Why GeoVis Maps?

My name is David Rhodes and I am a junior Accounting major from Norcross, Georgia. While this course does not exactly line up with my major, I feel as though the skills and tools that I will build in this course are incredibly valuable. Regardless of w…