Aug 25
Post by Andrew Loesch ’17 Hey all! My name is Andrew and I am a rising junior studying environmental studies and geography at the university. This summer I’ve been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to work with Dr. Todd Lookingbill and Professor Kimberley Klinker in the Spatial Analysis Lab this summer via the S4 internship. Since …
Jul 22
Post by Shaquille Christmas ’16 A couple weeks ago we visited the Richmond office of Henningson, Durham, and Richardson, Inc (HDR), which is an architectural, engineering and consulting firm based in Omaha, Nebraska. UR alum and former SAL researcher extraordinaire Bridget Ward recently started working there as a GIS consultant in the transportation division. Bridget and …
Mar 07
Celia Landesberg ’14, a University of Richmond senior and double-major in Geography and Environmental Studies, wrote an article for the online journal Digital America discussing what she refers to as the “millennium map experience.” Read her article here, in which she discusses how cartography has suddenly become an activity in which virtually everybody can—and does—partake.
Feb 10
The University of Richmond comprises five schools serving both undergraduate and graduate students. The School of Arts & Sciences houses a majority of the undergraduate student body, but the School of Law is where most of the University’s full-time graduate students study. While the Spatial Analysis Lab falls under the purview School of Arts & …
Jan 24
TIME Magazine recently published this disturbing image titled “A Map of Trouble” (TIME, Jan. 3 2012; 26-27). My response and my counter-map are inspired by the work of Mark Monmonier (How to Lie with Maps) and J.B. Harley (Maps, Knowledge and Power). First, the title and the graphic shape of the “region” are linked together …
Nov 14
Got GIS? My original plan for this blog entry was to shamelessly promote GIS Day (November 16th) – write something about this year’s t-shirt – and link it somehow to Geography Awareness Week. Fortunately, one chance occurrence has changed all that. Picture this: a Sunday afternoon spent grading and helping students in my lab, and …
Sep 12
September 12, 2011. Today was a great day. I arrived early to make sure all the computers were working and that I had enough handouts for my Human Geography students. Ethan arrived early to make sure the GPS units were charging for an outing with my GIS class. My students arrived and began a lesson …